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If you haven’t seen the “Pulse” area on Klout you might want to check it out. You can see the most influential people by many different categories ranging from Late Night hosts to Universities....

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I don’t normally write much personal stuff on my blog but I was so proud of my son Nathan last night I have to put this on my blog so I will always have this here. Last night my son had his “moving up ceremony” from fifth grade to sixth. This is a pretty big deal because three ele...

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I have been in the process of remodeling my kitchen. I am not going to mention any companies here but you can imagine two very large home improvement stores in the United States and those are the two I will be talking about. Oh yes, and I also checked Amazon. This particular order was for a new f...

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A bit back I was asked if one of my blog posts could be translated on a support page for a hosting company’s site. The post was originally put on this blog on 12/19/2012 and is titled “Using the XPath API to figure out my stats“.  Here is a snippet of the translated post and link ...

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I have a collection of videos on my YouTube channel and most of my recent ones are about commerce and more specifically WebSphere Commerce. The commerce related videos are similar to what we would show to a customer in a meeting or at a conference but in a smaller scope and generalized. Since YouTu...

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I recently had to populate a list and make sure there were no duplicates so I immediately thought of a hash map. While this worked great, I also needed the output to be sorted alphabetically. This is where SortedMap comes into play. While I could have done this a few ways, I found this method very s...

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In case you do not use the Jetpack plugin for your WordPress site you might want to consider it. The plugin is packed with some professional features. One of those really cool features is the Subscriptions feature. Not only is it easy to subscribe on a WordPress site – see my home page on the ...

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Dojo is considered the most robust JavaScript framework for business applications. If you want to really sink your teeth in then you might want to check out what Sitepen has to offer. The site hosts a blog, support, and workshops to get your team up and running with Dojo very quickly. You can even s...

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This blog post shows how you can use the Image Zoomer plugin by Dynamic Drive:John Davenport Scheuer for jQuery to provide image zoom capability in WebSphere Commerce. While many companies use their own package for image zoom like Adobe, a Dojo widget, or any other JavaScript framework, I wanted to ...

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Did you ever go to a web site and think, wow, how did they do that? Or, wouldn’t that be cool to write? I know I do. Well, this book is filled with 10 small projects you can use in real life. So unlike an API book where it focuses on the small granular API calls this book focuses on completed...

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In this video I show how you can edit web activities directly from site preview in WebSphere Commerce. I created a new customer segment that only has shoppers who have purchased something in the past 30 days. When I preview the site as that segment I see the new advertisement. ...

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So you are at the Smarter Commerce Global Summit and you are seeing all kinds products and services from IBM and Business Partners. If you are asking yourself questions like this: What value do I get choosing IBM for a specific piece of my Smarter Commerce puzzle? What is the value of choosing IBM ...

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So I had the pleasure of sitting next to and meeting Drew Neisser (@DrewNeisser), CEO of Renegade LLC on the plane to the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit today. We had a lot of great exchanges and he gave me a tip I should I have known already and that was having an email subscription form on m...

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I was in a discussion the other day about automation, which in itself is an extremely broad term, but we were talking around quality assurance and the importance of having some kind of automated process when the “product” was ready. Whether this be spreadsheets, reports, commercial produ...

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