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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:27 AM

Loss prevention -

Apparently in a down economy like this, one thing that goes up is shoplifting. According to a recent article in RetailWeek , The British Crime Survey, published in July, revealed shoplifting was up 10% overall in the past year. London saw an 11% hike
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Friday, August 28, 2009 12:23 PM

Commerce Server 2009 CTP available for download

Download the CTP from the Download Center , install this pre-release into a non-production environment to learn how it provides an improved business management experience, enhanced cross-channel enablement with 3-tier development and deployment support,
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:53 AM

4-5-4 calendars

Something I learnt today...retailers divide the year into 52 weeks of 7 days each, thats 364 days, what do they with the extra day....apparently every 6 yrs an extra week is added to the year...this is going to happen 2012, get the retail calendar from
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:11 AM

The convergence of social networking and ecommerce

Facebook: 250 million users, 120 million logins a day, 5 billions minutes spent on the site each day Is Facebook an ecommerce destination, retailers should be drooling at these numbers. Sears and Threadless already allowed people to add items to their
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:19 AM

Back in action

Hi there, After a long hiatus, I am back to blogging again. I recently took on a new role driving the technology strategy behind our ecommerce solutions. I will be working with techies in the Retail industry again..hooorraay...as you all know industries
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:33 AM

A beautiful day...for SharePoint developers

The sun is out after days of rain here in Seattle, there is a new hope in the air across the country...but these are not the only reasons, today we released the developer guidance for sharepoint developers to Make architectural decisions about feature
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Monday, November 03, 2008 4:06 PM

Application Architecture Guide 2.0

We released beta 1 of a new application architecture guide last week at PDC, check it out and follow along as the guide is developed: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArch JD Meier and his team is doing some ground breaking work, developing a practical handbook
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Friday, August 08, 2008 9:40 AM

New coordinates...

After 4+ years in Developer and Platform Evangelism I moved to a new team. I will be the group program manager for a team called Patterns and Practices in the Developer Division at Microsoft.   PnP, is well known for its guidance, Enterprise Library
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:13 PM

OBA Mashups!

composition in the enterprise has been a holy grail, but the lack of a solid app platform that allows for decoupling and provide the 'containers' needed for composing components didn't exist. With SharePoint, we have such a platform. OBAs are composite
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Monday, January 21, 2008 12:17 PM

Book: 6 Microsoft OBAs for MOSS

MS Press recently published a book titled “ 6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007 ”. This book highlights the breadth of approaches developers can take for building Office Business Applications (OBAs). These approaches,
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:46 PM

Office Developer Conference

2008 Office Developer Conference is around the corner...Bill Gates is delivering a special keynote...I plan to be there, we are running the architecture track at ODC, so if you want to know the latest on OBAs, go register...I will see you in San Jose
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:16 AM

Plant Floor OBA Virtual Lab

Whether you are on a slow bandwidth connection or are lazy to downlaod the OBA RAP for PF vpc, now you can see how it works using the virtual lab: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7091160
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 12:19 AM

Three new OBA RAPs

checkout the new reference architecture packs we released earlier this week 1. OBA RAP for E-Forms processing addresses common patterns in data collection and processing using InfoPath 2007, SharePoint Server 2007, InfoPath Forms Services, Outlook, and
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:58 PM

creating web parts without writing code

I stumbled upon this nifty SP Web part that can host any ASP.NET web user control, check it out: http://www.codeplex.com/smartpart
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:56 AM

Development on your fingertips: Microsoft Office Developer Map

very cool: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb497969.aspx Everything an OBA devloper needs, resources, content, documentation on object libraries etc, all bundled in a nice WPF app
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