E-Commerce Product Architecture

What's your computers CGF?

khavas — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:59:00 GMT

I've invented a new acronym (well Microsoft TLA, anyways...) CGF - Computer Grog Factor. This is the amount of time it takes from when you take your computer out of sleep mode until it becomes usable. Right now this is top of mind because the CGF on my...(read more)

PDC Session now available

khavas — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:45:00 GMT

The PDC Session that we did on Commerce Server "Mojave" is now available online. You can access it here: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC59/ Tom does a great demo where he constructs a working E-Commerce site in about 5 minutes using the out of the...(read more)

Commerce Server "Mojave" October 2008 CTP is now available

khavas — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:15:00 GMT

See our e-commerce blog post for more details: http://blogs.msdn.com/commerce/default.aspx...(read more)

Come see me at the PDC

khavas — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:10:00 GMT

I am going to be at the Professional Developers Conference October 25th - 29th. We are doing the following Session: PC59 - Commerce Server "Mojave": Overview Session Day/Time: 10/27/2008 15:30-16:45 Room: 408A I will be copresenting with Tom Schultz....(read more)

Sharepoint List Service - GetListItems and Pagination

khavas — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:43:00 GMT

Ran into this problem and searched high and low for a solution but never found another post detailing the solution. The issue is that, according to the documentation for GetListItem, located here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/lists.lists.getlistitems.aspx...(read more)

Architectural Trends - Model Driven Solutions

khavas — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:09:00 GMT

We should move away, and push our clients to move away, from solutions where business knowledge is encoded into programming languages to solutions where business knowledge in encoded into business models and solutions drive from the business model. The majority of the costs of standing up a site and maintaining a site occurs in that layer of code that, essentially, replicates business knowledge derived from the analysis phase. When the business model changes the code has to change. This represents risk to the business. When technology changes, sometimes the entire code base has to change.

Model driven solutions better survive technology changes because the business knowledge is encapsulated within rigid models rather than loosely enforced coding standards that change with every software release and every pattern fad.

Model driven solutions better convert into SaaS solutions because they minimize the amount of C# code which may be disallowed or discouraged on shared Saas platforms.

Welcome to my blog!

khavas — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:38:00 GMT

Welcome to my blog!

My name is Kerry Havas and I am a Product Architect working for Microsoft in the Microsoft Commerce Server Product Unit.

I'll be writing about trends in Commerce applications and about Commerce Server 2007 and our upcoming product release.

I will also be blogging examples and tips and tricks for getting the most out of your e-commerce implementation.

Kerry Havas