Michaeljon Miller

New day, new role, old team

This past Monday I (re)joined a team that I was involved with for many years. I have accepted a role...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/08/2011

Whither Hohm?

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 07/05/2011

What I’ve been up to

By the way, in case anyone is still listening, the reason I went dark was twofold: first, summer...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 01/10/2011

Lack of sleep is rewarding, somewhat

The Microsoft Hohm team cranked through the night(s) for the last month. What they did came out this...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 05/26/2010

My Hohm Score is 95

  Today the Microsoft Hohm team is launching a significant update that changes how consumers...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 05/26/2010

Microsoft and Ford team up to help electric vehicle owners recharge more effectively

This is likely to get lost in all the news, but in case you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft Hohm and...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 03/31/2010

When “SDK” is a bad term

The Microsoft Hohm team has announced two sets of protocol documentation. The first has been in use...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 03/24/2010

Providing energy information in all zip codes

Early this morning the Hohm team launched a release we called the Holiday Express. This release took...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/23/2010

Holiday Lights Low Concern For Northwest Power Producers

This morning, KPLU aired a piece on the power consumption of holiday lights. The BPA says that...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/14/2009

World Standards Day

Yesterday was World Standards Day. Mark Ryland, one of the guys I work with on a regular basis,...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 10/15/2009

Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture

This crossed my desk today. These guys busted their butts to get this done and out. Congrats to the...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 10/15/2009

Seattle City Light is connected to Hohm

I completely forgot to tell anyone. Seattle City Light has passed all of their Hohm integration...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 10/07/2009

Sitting in deployment – Microsoft Hohm goes live

Other than a few minor DNS hiccups, Microsoft Hohm went live this morning. The team’s been sitting...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 07/06/2009

Announcing Microsoft Hohm

So, I haven’t been blogging much over the last year or so. But, there’s a reason. I couldn’t really...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 06/24/2009

Why are thermostats like a VCR?

Actually, I don’t have an answer. For some reason thermostats still seem to follow a 1980s user...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/26/2008

It’s getting warmer in Bellevue?

I’ve been paying attention to two different things about my house for the last year or so (while...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 11/20/2008

I've decided that I finally really give up on stored procedures

As much as I want to play the game and use stored procedures for data access logic, time and time...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 06/29/2008

Too funny

Yeah, yeah, I've been really quiet for a really long time. I know. I'm sorry. But, I've been busy...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 05/29/2008

GP's been drinking the Kool-aid again

I really respect GP's opinions on a lot of SaaS-related issues, but this one might be pushing my...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/08/2008

Not surprising, but I have nothing to say

It's not going to come as a surprise to anyone who used to read my blog and has noticed that it's...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 01/04/2008

SaaS: Collaboration

Yesterday I set the stage for the 5Cs of Saas: collaboration, community, connectedness,...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 09/20/2007

What does SaaS mean (to me)

I've been thinking about this software-as-a-service thing for many, many years now (prior to joining...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 09/19/2007

What is an application platform?

I'm working on a short paper / presentation that describes my position on what an application...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 06/27/2007

My WPC schedule

Wow, the calendar system on the WPC site isn't quite what I had expected. So, I'm going to keep my...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 06/27/2007

WPC here I come

I've finally registered for this year's WPC and I'm extending an invitation to MBS customers and...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 06/13/2007

Oh yeah, and the core of LOB applications is financials

So it took me seven years to come to this realization. Financials is a hard requirement for just...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 03/27/2007

Why MS-CRM isn't a CRM product

For the longest time I've held the belief that the underlying infrastructure behind MS-CRM was there...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 03/27/2007

What do I mean by hostable LOB application?

At the risk of upsetting a few people, I'm going to take a shot at defining what I think a hostable...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 11/16/2006

Poking my head out of the sand

Wow, it's been a long time. I kept trying to come back and write something, but between working on...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 11/16/2006

Multiple forms per "entity"?

Why not? I was just thinking about yesterday's post and had one of those disturbing thoughts that I...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 06/14/2006

Dealing with many 1:M CRM relationships

I while back I mentioned in the CRM newsgroups that it was possible to create multiple relationships...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 06/13/2006

What does SaaS mean to MBS?

Let's forget for a moment the weird ad-based revenue models that don't make sense for a software...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 06/12/2006

There is a light at the end of the tunnel

Today, after 8 quarters (2¾ years if you're counting), I went to school and did something "fun": I...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 06/06/2006

Any uptake on the RSS connector for CRM?

Is anyone actively using the RSS connector CRM? If so, how are you using it and did you customize it...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 05/19/2006

Web services and objects revisited

Jim Whitescarver replied to a very old post I made while ranting about distributed software, SOA,...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 05/19/2006

Easing the release tax burden

I've started thinking again about how to release software quickly. This isn't anything new to me,...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 05/10/2006

Looking for input on security course design

As part of my masters degree capstone project I'm putting together outlines of all the courses that...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 05/04/2006

New CRM blog and blogger

Note: free exposure to CRM team members' blogs. Charles Elliot, a good friend and recently a...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 05/01/2006

Sneaking past the corporate firewall - projecting business data

What would happen if a business, or even an individual application user, could project business data...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 04/21/2006

What's my new world made up of?

The MS-CRM world is made up of nearly one hundred entities. The original, v1 database design had one...

Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 04/11/2006

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