Author Archives: Kelly

Commerce Server and Shifting Retailer Priorities

Shop.Org recently released their Merchandising Report by Forrester Research.  The Merchandising Report was the second in a series called The State of Online Retailing 2009 and highlights priorities for online retailers either this calendar year or planned for calendar year 2010. … Continue reading

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Commerce Server Try-It Videos

Recently the Commerce Server Product Unit released a series of videos that give  you a first-hand look at what Commerce Server 2009 can do.  Yours truly had a hand at helping produce these videos (that’s ME you hear!) and if … Continue reading

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Extensibility or Hack?

One of the many people I follow on Twitter had this to say about Commerce Server the other day.  He’s not alone.  I’ve had many customers ask me this type of thing in the past but the truth is, this … Continue reading

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New CS09 Sites & Cache Refresh

One of the little snags I encountered recently while building out a new Commerce Server demo, was a problem with refreshing the site caches. Creating a new eCommerce-enabled site in SharePoint is one of the real added bonuses of using … Continue reading

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New to Commerce Server 2009

The Commerce Server Product Group released some new additions to the recently released Commerce Server 2009.  Two of the updates are design focused and the other is a document describing how to localize your Commerce enabled SharePoint sites using site … Continue reading

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One Month Later

It’s been about a month since I returned from SXSW and thought that it might be interesting to highlight some more music that I’ve fallen for since coming back. Jason Lytle, from the band Grandaddy, performed a couple of songs … Continue reading

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Redesigning the CS09 Default Site

Recently, I had to make changes to Commerce Server 2009′s Default Site in SharePoint.  If it were a perfect world, the absolute best way to do this would be to get the extensibility kit (if you have Commerce Server 2009 … Continue reading

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Commerce Server 2009 General Availability

The latest version of Commerce Server is now available for everyone to purchase. The official launch took place at MIX’09, Microsoft’s interactive conference, last week. Jean-Yves Martineau, Cactus’ Founder and Scott Cairney, Cactus’ VP of Product Management did a great … Continue reading

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Hipsters and Skinny Jeans, oh my!

What a great week it’s been at SXSW!  I find myself feeling sad that it’s all come to an end.  During the festival, walking around downtown and seeing all those people, all there for the same reason you are, they … Continue reading

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SXSW Day Stage

The Day Stage at SXSW turned out to be a great place to see bands, give my feet a rest and eat some food.  I was really surprised by the quality of some of the acts performing.  There were a … Continue reading

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