You haven’t heard from me in a while.  Lots of top secret projects.  Secret at least, but hopefully you think they’re top notch.  I’ve been checking out the recently set up GXS Insights portal.  Lots of good stuff there, and I like the fact that we’re making more of our content available outside the site via video services like YouTube and Google (’s Other) Video.  I also particularly liked our SVP and CTO Rowland Archer’s write-up called “A World Without Version Numbers.”  One of my top secret projects, [—redacted—] involves re-visiting how we internally and externally notate releases on our Trading Grid platform, the value of which Rowland explains well.

I’m a big fan of hosted services even in my personal life, where I make extensive use of tools like Backpack for lightweight PIM and Newshutch for RSS.  I have no clue what version number I’m using.  Aside from any internal development environments at the service-provider’s level, the only version relevant to me is the production version.  If you call GXS for support on your Trading Grid service and they ask what version number you’re using, tell them “I’m using version Tuesday, October 23, 2007, GMT-5.”  Except, make sure you update for your actual date of call.  They wouldn’t ask you, of course, so I’m just being difficult.

If you’ve taken the dive into RSS because you woke up one morning and couldn’t face the prospect of reading 40 different web sites before work, make sure you subscribe to the Insights RSS feed.  You’ve already subscribed to all of our blogs, of course, so you wouldn’t want to miss any GXS thoughts.  If you aren’t using RSS yet, you should give it a try.  It might come in handy with one of these top secret [————–redacted————-].