Contents tagged with eCommerce
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Shipping Rules Are My Bread & Butter
Today I've just realized that the vast majority of my work has been customizing shipping rules. You'll never be out of work if you specialize in shipping rules. Businesses can never seem to accept the default shipping options and software cannot be designed with a fully configurable shipping rule system. All ecommerce shopping carts try to make the shipping options configurable but they simply can't accommodate all the special needs for pricing and shipping a wide variety of products.
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Code Rot In Commercial ASP.NET Web Applications
Over the weekend I was busy fixing a shipping problem in the commercial ASP.NET 1.1 web application, Storefront 6.0 by LaGarde. When the United States Postal Service (USPS) changed their web services it caused some problems for many web sites that use shopping carts. I know OsCommerce, a PHP and MySQL open source shopping cart, had problems but this was quickly fixed because it is open source software. Web sites that used Storefront 6.0 were not so lucky because the developer has abandoned this product. I know they still support their high end version for some really big enterprise clients but they have angered many small business clients by dropping support for Storefront 6.0. This shopping cart already had 8 service packs but there have been no more code fixes for over a year. It was never converted to ASP.NET 2.0.
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My ASP.NET Work Activities
I have not read any blog entries about how developers are using ASP.NET in their work so I thought I'd write about my current projects. I think a professional blog should be used to keep your clients and colleagues informed about your work activities, project progress, and current research or studies.