Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Why you should be using a VPN
What is a VPN? A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is basically a secure encrypted link from your computer to a computer or network somewhere else. Your computer then routes some or all of it’s network traffic over that encrypted link. Typically they are used to get access from secure private or corporate networks from…
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The True Cost of ATG’s Core Based Licensing
This is a follow up from a post I made 8 months ago: Why ATG’s Core Based Licensing is Stupid With the new Westmere hex-core CPU’s out now, the problem has gotten worse. A mid-high or high end Westmere CPU presents as 12 cores. So what does this really mean? I just ran the numbers,…
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Montreal Motorcycle Road Trip
This past weekend Christian and I rode our Ducati Multistradas up to Montreal. We took the long road up, driving West on route 2, connected on to route 116 (which was great) and then rode North on Vermont route 100 from the Massachusetts border up to 108 to St. Albans. Route 100 has got to…
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ATG CSC Usability
note: this is post four in my ATG CSC and why I hate it series: ATG CSC has a new UI While the old Commerce Assist UI was pretty bare-bones, pretty simple, and not super “smart” it generally worked. It was pretty easy to figure out how to do what you wanted to do, and get…
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ATG CSC UI Customization
note: this is post three in my ATG CSC and why I hate it series: UI Modification Mostly customers using ATG CSC will want to make at least minor UI customizations. This could include providing information to CSRs about alternate payment types (PayPal, BillMeLater, Gift Cards), displaying customer loyalty program status, or more involved changes…
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ATG CSC Search Issues
note: this is post two in my ATG CSC and why I hate it series: For some unknown reason ATG has replaced the standard Repository based search used for looking up profiles and orders with ATG Search engine based indexing and lookups. First off, I’ve never had any issues with the old Repository based search.…
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