I’m an avid user of Facebook. A friend’s mom put a simple post out on the site saying the following:

We’re in a recession with people losing their jobs and homes and our country just spent 79 million on a rocket to shoot a hole in the moon?!

My plan was to never use this blog to do anything political, but this is one that I simply cannot leave go, and I really need to vent the …

After much deliberation about this, I am finally going to bite the bullet. Deal Processor v1.5.xxx.yyy is going to be the last of the installable versions of Deal Processor.

After evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of using Silverlight, I can fully attest that for the client base that we are targeting, being able to offer the COR application as a Silverlight-based application, and then …

I’ve been amused by the toys out on the web that have been developed in Flash/Flex and Silverlight over the past few years. Even some as big as the Olympics being broadcasted over the world in part by these technologies… and now, with Microsoft finally releasing Silverlight 3 to the web a few months ago, it has enough “brass” available that someone can build a decent LOB …

We’re in testing… although I don’t see many POS 2009 dealers jumping for joy… most of them are not quite willing as of yet to bit the bullet on this new system. I hope that things improve for SP1, and that more dealers come on board, or Microsoft will lose a pretty sweet opportunity for third party integration.

So, first real step was taken today… to see how long it would take to get the workstation components into the POS interface, to make a homogenious environment for the POS user to update the required data for Timeforge.

In the POS Bootcamp, this is something that took about 10-15 minutes, after all the discussions… after about 45 minutes or so, I finally got things working. It turns …