When testing new functionality on the blog, I (typically) obscure the actual process of testing. However, there are a few circumstances where this isn’t tenable. Syntax highlighting is just such a circumstance. It is not sufficient to see how the javascript/plugin solution I’m leveraging works on the blog itself…instead I must also see how it [...]

Federated Identity, as discussed yesterday, is about governance and security in commerce workflows but more is required to sufficiently drive the workflows that software companies are building, for their customers. Federated Identity is one element in the equation of governance.  The other key component, which is unique to IP Commerce APIs and Managed Commerce Services [...]

For those of you not familiar with the term “API”, let’s discuss its meaning. An “Application Programming Interface” is, simply, the interface that allows one piece of software to communicate with another.  In most cases, this interaction between differing pieces software occurs because a developer invests the time and effort to code their software to [...]

TechCrunch – Decoding Steve Jobs’ Dressing Down Of FlashApril 29, 2010 – First, read the original note from Steve Jobs here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ Then read the rest of this post. I think that TechCrunch has done an excellent job of analyzing the output/content/meaning of the post itself.

A VC – Commerce 2.0?March 20, 2010 – This quote is something I agree with…and not just completely…almost vehemently. “But just as social technologies changed the game in the media web in the last decade, I believe social technologies will change the commerce web in the coming decade. “