As promised I am going to begin blogging on my experiences with Commerce Server 2007.  I started yesterday by getting the environment setup.  I didn’t run through the step-by-step guides I just followed the prompts and a little advice from one of my co-workers who has been playing with CS for about a month now.  Everything seemed to go as planned.  I walked through the configuration wizard, unpacked the CSharpSite and compiled all the projects which got everything going.  The part I missed from doing it this way was configuring security correctly.  One thing I’ve noticed is that CS seems...

Well, I’m no Wade Wegner, but I am going to get my shot at developing in Commerce Server and I intend to share my experiences here.  I’m sure Wade will have ample opportunities to laugh at my foolish mistakes and offer a better approach, but I figure that is the way that I’m going to learn and hopefully provide all of you some useful information along the way.  So Wade, I know you are looking to put all that knowledge you’ve compiled for your book to good use, are you up to the challenge of guiding a Commerce Server novice...

Step 1 - Make Assumptions Result - No more pesky client!  For those of you who have known me for a while or have followed my blog for any length of time, you should know that I am rather adamant about customer service.  I believe that it is the one aspect of our industry that is in desperate need of serious attention.  There is one skill that all of us who ever have to deal with clients (or managers, or peers, or direct reports, or spouses, or friends, or - well you get the idea) need to...