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IBM SupportTV – A great source of information for IBM products 27 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm
I received my weekly email from YouTube stating I would be interested in this channel called IBM SupportTV and the video was for IBM Extensions for Memory Analyzer to debug out of memory issues so I d...
Coremedia plus WebSphere Commerce – an excellent integration story 20 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
I happen to be engaged with a customer where we will be teaming up with Coremedia for some pretty amazing content management integration with WebSphere Commerce. Coremedia has been around for over 15 ...
NBS Systems 2013 e-Commerce Benchmark – WebSphere Commerce still the leader! 1 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
This is an excellent analysis of the various eCommerce systems in the market today. I only viewed the shortened free version which I found extremely comprehensive and much better than the Forrester an...
Recommend Promotions 101 in WebSphere Commerce 31 Jul 2013 | 08:36 pm
One of the most challenging parts of a commerce site is having the technology to tie the front end advertisements to the back-end promotion engine. For instance, you don’t want to show an advertisemen...
Awesome product marketing tool for WebSphere Commerce 30 Jul 2013 | 07:49 pm
Zobrist Inc. has a very cool add-on to the WebSphere Commerce tooling that allows merchandisers to visually re-arrange products in a category and instantly see other things like available inventory le...
Three cool examples of dynamic segment rules in WebSphere Commerce 29 Jul 2013 | 06:16 pm
I have blogged about dynamic segments in WebSphere Commerce a few times because I think they are extremely powerful and allow marketing to do all kinds of very cool things to make their site more inte...
Adding the Pinterest “Pin it” button to WebSphere Commerce 24 Jul 2013 | 11:44 pm
With social media becoming more and more popular many sites offer a “Pin it” button for their products to be posted on Pinterest. If you are working in WebSphere Commerce and modifying the Aurora stor...
Leaders For Life International – a camp every teenager should attend 13 Jul 2013 | 12:52 am
I had the pleasure of going to the end of camp ceremony today for my daughter and I must say I was totally impressed with the outcome of this six-day camp. Leaders for Life International empowers tee...
What is the one word that defines you? 11 Jul 2013 | 08:20 pm
The other day I read this very interesting article by Dharmesh Shah, the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. I found the article interesting because any time I am in a situation and asked or told about anothe...
College hire interviews: Internships, personality, and drive 21 Jun 2013 | 07:57 am
I recently read the article about Googles position on GPA’s and Brainteasers in interviews. This is really a new college hire interview as a professional interview is vastly different from someone com...
