The average shopping cart abandonment rate among online retailers is 36%. 38% of online users do not buy online because they have to register with a site before purchasing. Online customers return to a site an average of three times before making a purchase. 45% of online shoppers had abandoned carts more than once over a three week period, leaving behind baskets worth an average of $109. 39% of online non-buyers didn't purchase online because they thought "returns would be a hassle." Your next eCommerce platform of choice - Aivea Commerce Server - http://www.aiveacommerceserver.com

Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010 -- http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/01/22/operating-system-requirements-of-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Marketing Charts posts the top 10 converting ecommerce sites. If you follow the updates, you’ll see usual suspects like Schwans, Proflowers, 1800flowers, Office Depot and QVC popping up month after month. Sure, a lot of these retailers enjoy high conversion rates for no-brainer, repeat purchases but that kind of loyalty is earned — and requires a smooth checkout process to make it happen.

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1. SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.
2. SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.
3. SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.

More information at http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/11/announcing-sharepoint-server-2010-preliminary-system-requirements.aspx

Namaste!

From Soma's Blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/05/18/visual-studio-2010-and-net-fx-4-beta-1-ships.aspx

SharePoint Server 2010 team has started testing with the Beta 1 bits.

Aivea Commerce Server team will soon start testing our product with .NET 4.0 Beta 1 as well.

Event Type:    Warning
Event Source:    Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search
Event Category:    Gatherer
Event ID:    2436
Date:        2/25/2009
Time:        12:35:04 PM
User:        N/A
Computer:    YOURMOSSSERVER
Description:
The start address </contentdbid={f683c2eb-afc7-4154-90ce-9d75a93c6a9f}> cannot be crawled.

Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server', Catalog 'Search'

Details:
    Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content.   (0x80041205)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp .

Resolution:

Follow these steps to Disable the loopback check which is causing the error:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

3. Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
7. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.

See the following knowledge base article from Microsoft for full details on the error and another possible resolution: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861

Recently I’ve been doing some clean up of old files and other assorted junk on one of our servers at work. Between figuring out what needs to stay online, what needs to be archived, and what can be trashed, I noticed that several folders were much larger in filesize than they needed to be. Also, it was taking forever to delete folders because they had hundreds of unnecessary files in them. The files in question? Subversion .svn folders.

Subversion (SVN) is a beautiful thing. I love it, and use it daily to manage my projects, both at work and at home. However, to assist in saving your life at times, SVN uses a system of storing information about the files it’s managing in folders labeled “.svn”. Normally, these are hidden files, so most people don’t even notice that they’re there. However, they are there, and if you attempt to copy a folder that’s under SVN version control, you’ll be copying the associated .svn files with it. Not necessarily a bad thing, unless you want to copy that folder to a webserver, or zip it and email some files off to a client.

Those .svn files can sometimes add up to a significant amount of diskspace, and you don’t need to include them. This is where svn export comes in.

Many SVN users are aware of this command, however, judging by the amount of folders I’ve deleted from our servers today that contained .svn info, and zip files I’ve received in the past from clients and other developers I’ve worked with, there are still plenty of SVN users who apparently have never heard of it.

Name
svn export — Export a clean directory tree.

As the description above states, the command svn export exports a clean directory tree from a repository or the local working copy. What this means is that the files you need are exported to a new directory to be uploaded or copied to disk, without including the extra .svn files. Saving you diskspace, and clients calling you back asking “What’s this .svn stuff? Do I need this too?”

It’s not a hard command to learn, or to use. I can’t vouch for Windows users, but if you’re using svnX on a Mac, there’s a button in the Repository window to take care of the export for you. I’m sure that the Windows SVN tools allow you to use it as well. Either way, both platforms can use the command line, and that can be even faster at times.

So, to sum up: svn export - Learn it. Use it. Love it.

The Subversion source control client maintains your local state in hidden folders named .svn inside your project, which can be a problem if you want to copy or share the project directory.  This REG file adds "Delete SVN Folders" to the context menu for folders. When you select it, it removes all folders named .svn inside the folder and it's children (it does nothing if the project's not under Subversion source control.

I'm not going to bother explaining reg file installation here - I figure if you're using SVN, you're good with reg files.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\DeleteSVN]
@="Delete SVN Folders"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\DeleteSVN\command]
@="cmd.exe /c \"TITLE Removing SVN Folders in %1 && COLOR 9A && FOR /r \"%1\" %%f IN (.svn) DO RD /s /q \"%%f\" \""

I got the idea from Wyatt Preul's post comparing Powershell and Command Prompt commands to delete SVN directories, so if you'd like to do this manually take a look at his scripts.