Category: Work
-
Calm Before the Storm
This week has seen Seattle, New York, and now back to Ottawa. A bunch of things wrapped up. And gearing up for the next round – which promises to be even busier. The long weekend can’t come soon enough!
-
Dubai – remarks
And that is the tallest building in the world. Live in Dubai – captured on my iPhone as we drove through the city. My remarks: The architecture is more amazing than anything I have ever seen. Anywhere. Period. The country is run like a company – that is the philosophy.…
-
En Route to Dubai
A brief post this week. I have been in Ottawa. Then Seattle. Now I’m in Washington DC. And about to fly onto Dubai for business. That should make for some interesting camera-phone photos – too bad I don’t have the room for the 1D Mark IV and gear.
-
Secret Agent Man
For most of 2010 – and so far all of 2011 – I have been working on special projects as my primary focus day-to-day. A lot of the details of which will never be known – except to a select few involved. It has provided for a vexing and at…
-
Commerce Server Blog Migration Finished
All of my historical articles from http://blogs.msdn.com/rdonovan/ have now been migrated here. You can conveniently view them by clicking on http://rdonovan.com/category/commerce-server/. Enjoy!
-
Demo Hell – thank you SharePoint 2010
I just built a demo system for presenting Commerce Server 2009 R2 CTP on top of SharePoint 2010 at the Microsoft MVP Summit. The experience was NOT fun, hampered by two major gotchas: SP2010 will not configure unless you are connected to the network. And the domain controller of the…
-
The problem with change…
Often times, you can see the end point. But many steps are required to get there from here. And these things take time. And they are dependent on other things. And so forth. It feels like hurry up and wait. Even though things are proceeding probably as fast as they…
-
Migrating the Blog – sigh
I decided to migrate my Work blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/rdonovan/) to this site – just so that the content is archived under a system I control. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to migrate from Community Server to WordPress. This is going to be A LOT of work.
-
Commerce Server 2009 w/ SharePoint 2010 Template Pack Hyper-V VHD Now Available
I am pleased to announce that we now have available a Hyper-V VHD release of the SharePoint 2010 Template Pack for Commerce Server 2009. This is a 64-bit Hyper-V image – as SharePoint 2010 requires a 64-bit operating system. Hence, Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V is required to run the…
-
Commerce Server on SharePoint 2010
Today is the next step in evolving Commerce Server. As of this morning, the Commerce Server 2009 Template Pack for SharePoint 2010 has released and can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cfd0c459-5a11-4de6-9085-52d59e8d38e6. What this release provides is an updated version of the existing Contemporary Site for both Web and Mobile devices that…