Michaeljon Miller
This past Monday I (re)joined a team that I was involved with for many years. I have accepted a role...
Date: 12/08/2011
Date: 07/05/2011
By the way, in case anyone is still listening, the reason I went dark was twofold: first, summer...
Date: 01/10/2011
The Microsoft Hohm team cranked through the night(s) for the last month. What they did came out this...
Date: 05/26/2010
Today the Microsoft Hohm team is launching a significant update that changes how consumers...
Date: 05/26/2010
This is likely to get lost in all the news, but in case you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft Hohm and...
Date: 03/31/2010
The Microsoft Hohm team has announced two sets of protocol documentation. The first has been in use...
Date: 03/24/2010
Early this morning the Hohm team launched a release we called the Holiday Express. This release took...
Date: 02/23/2010
This morning, KPLU aired a piece on the power consumption of holiday lights. The BPA says that...
Date: 12/14/2009
Yesterday was World Standards Day. Mark Ryland, one of the guys I work with on a regular basis,...
Date: 10/15/2009
This crossed my desk today. These guys busted their butts to get this done and out. Congrats to the...
Date: 10/15/2009
I completely forgot to tell anyone. Seattle City Light has passed all of their Hohm integration...
Date: 10/07/2009
Other than a few minor DNS hiccups, Microsoft Hohm went live this morning. The team’s been sitting...
Date: 07/06/2009
So, I haven’t been blogging much over the last year or so. But, there’s a reason. I couldn’t really...
Date: 06/24/2009
Actually, I don’t have an answer. For some reason thermostats still seem to follow a 1980s user...
Date: 12/26/2008
I’ve been paying attention to two different things about my house for the last year or so (while...
Date: 11/20/2008
As much as I want to play the game and use stored procedures for data access logic, time and time...
Date: 06/29/2008
Yeah, yeah, I've been really quiet for a really long time. I know. I'm sorry. But, I've been busy...
Date: 05/29/2008
I really respect GP's opinions on a lot of SaaS-related issues, but this one might be pushing my...
Date: 02/08/2008
It's not going to come as a surprise to anyone who used to read my blog and has noticed that it's...
Date: 01/04/2008
Yesterday I set the stage for the 5Cs of Saas: collaboration, community, connectedness,...
Date: 09/20/2007
I've been thinking about this software-as-a-service thing for many, many years now (prior to joining...
Date: 09/19/2007
I'm working on a short paper / presentation that describes my position on what an application...
Date: 06/27/2007
Wow, the calendar system on the WPC site isn't quite what I had expected. So, I'm going to keep my...
Date: 06/27/2007
I've finally registered for this year's WPC and I'm extending an invitation to MBS customers and...
Date: 06/13/2007
So it took me seven years to come to this realization. Financials is a hard requirement for just...
Date: 03/27/2007
For the longest time I've held the belief that the underlying infrastructure behind MS-CRM was there...
Date: 03/27/2007
At the risk of upsetting a few people, I'm going to take a shot at defining what I think a hostable...
Date: 11/16/2006
Wow, it's been a long time. I kept trying to come back and write something, but between working on...
Date: 11/16/2006
Why not? I was just thinking about yesterday's post and had one of those disturbing thoughts that I...
Date: 06/14/2006
I while back I mentioned in the CRM newsgroups that it was possible to create multiple relationships...
Date: 06/13/2006
Let's forget for a moment the weird ad-based revenue models that don't make sense for a software...
Date: 06/12/2006
Today, after 8 quarters (2¾ years if you're counting), I went to school and did something "fun": I...
Date: 06/06/2006
Is anyone actively using the RSS connector CRM? If so, how are you using it and did you customize it...
Date: 05/19/2006
Jim Whitescarver replied to a very old post I made while ranting about distributed software, SOA,...
Date: 05/19/2006
I've started thinking again about how to release software quickly. This isn't anything new to me,...
Date: 05/10/2006
As part of my masters degree capstone project I'm putting together outlines of all the courses that...
Date: 05/04/2006
Note: free exposure to CRM team members' blogs. Charles Elliot, a good friend and recently a...
Date: 05/01/2006
What would happen if a business, or even an individual application user, could project business data...
Date: 04/21/2006
The MS-CRM world is made up of nearly one hundred entities. The original, v1 database design had one...
Date: 04/11/2006