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For the past week, ending on Friday, I was in Atlanta training with the SiteCore team. I’m now certified on an exciting product, SiteCore XP (Experience Platform) 8. With the aquisiton of the Commerce Server line, and now Commerce Server being directly integrated with Commerce Server, I though this certificaiton and training would be worthRead more

So many times I have had to hunt down a piece of code, or find a method. This is my go to command. It simply allows me to search all text in a directory recursively and outputs the names of the files that contain my pattern or search string. Search strings in files using PowerShell:Read more

I have been working on cleaning up my family’s collection of photos. Before I was married I believe my total count was around 300 or so. Now that I am married and have 2 kids. I just checked and there are 30,000. I believe there to be quite a few duplicates in my collection. I’mRead more

As I write this I am currently sitting at a high top table, in a pretty standard dining establishment, on their wifi, and utilizing my Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5. I am on a mission. I am searching for some components and parts that I need to complete my latest hobby build. For reference only, IRead more

Once again, it’s time to develop a windows service. Sometimes I try and avoid these type projects, but i have a very specific requirement that whenever a file changes on a server that a call is made to an edge caching device to evict that item from cache. One of the things that I hateRead more

So, I was shopping around, at work, i know i’m a horrible person. But what i needed was a simple timer light switch for my outdoor lights. I did a search on Google. I came up with the first link of course being home depot, i click and this is where i end up. ARead more

Today I completed the upgrade of my VMWare ESXi server from 5.0 to 5.1. This will allow me to run Windows Server 2012 VM’s to test and develop against. I guess I was a little behind the times. Now on a side note, the environment upgrade was super easy. I simply downloaded the ISO fromRead more

Well, over the past few months, a lot of exciting things have been happening in my world of Development. As you may already know, Microsoft has passed along Commerce Server to a new partner, see previous post about that. I have been working closely with the team over at CommerceServer.NET, and I am very excitedRead more

So I received an email, New Years day, informing me that I have been awarded my second MVP award.  I am glad Microsoft decided to keep the program going as they transition Commerce Server to Ascentium. It is with great pride we announce that Bradley Foley has been awarded as a Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP)Read more

If you don’t know it, don’t put it on your resume. This is perhaps the most simple task. If you don’t embellish the technical portion of you resume you’re likely to find yourself interviewing for a position that matches your technical skills. This is critical because if you list it on your resume, and it’sRead more