Ben Taylor's Blog

About Scott Cairney - Scott Cairney is a Commerce Server Veteran and key player in the creation of Commerce Server Mojave.  He has been deeply involved with Commerce Server since Commerce Server 2000.  Scott is currently a Product Manager in the Commerce Server Product Group and Vice-President Product Management at Cactus. 

Scott on Mojave at Tech-Ed - Scott recently took a European holiday ;) presented a couple of sessions at Tech-Ed Barcelona.  I have been unable to find these sessions online (unlike the Mojave PDC session).  However, Mark Dunn of .NET Rocks interviewed Scott about Mojave while at Tech-Ed and this is online.  You can Watch Scott Cairney and Mark Dunn discuss Commerce Server Mojave.  Note: The interview is available in other formats.  For the links, go to the Tech-Ed Tech-Talks page and search for "Commerce Server" (there is no direct link to the interview page!).

Scott on Commerce Server Mojave Feedback - Given the wholesale API change in Mojave, I am very interested to hear what people think about it.  Apparently Tech-Ed participants had plenty of feedback, as Scott says in the interview:

"We did get a lot of feedback... We got some terrific feedback.  We got some negative feedback.  We got feedback saying it is too generic, some people are saying it is not generic enough.  So we think it's great, the fact that there is now a discussion of Commerce Server."

I agree.  It is exciting to be getting a major new rev of Commerce Server and it will be fun to discover and talk about.  I mean, not as exciting as white water rafting, or sticking your tongue in an electric socket, but you know what I mean. 

Have you looked at Mojave yet?  What are your thoughts?

PS Tom Schultz just announced the Commerce Server Mojave November CTP drop.  Download does not seem to work for me :(

In this video, Scott Guthrie (aka ScottGu), explains how his team originally used Smack (their nickname for Simple Managed C or  SMC) to write ASP.NET.  However, they later decided to write it in C# on the CLR (we all know using smack is bad).  Scott explains why the decision was "important", "super risky" and the "single biggest" they made in regards to server-side .NET.  If they had not done this, the server-side .NET world we know today may have been different.  It is (in my view) a really interesting bit of history (the original .NET class libraries were also written in SMC and then ported to Cool, later named C#).

This was filmed at the Microsoft PDC 2008 in LA (by me), during Scott's session at the Open Space area.  Thanks to Scott Guthrie for taking the time to talk to us and all people that contributed to the interesting Open Space sessions.

Need something else to do?  Go use some MEF.  "I am a tool window" what are you?