What's been going on?

As you have probably noticed, we haven't updated the blog much lately. A few reasons for that, but first a sincere apology to those of you who were waiting for some tool news and were disappointed in our lack of posting.

Big reason #1: We have a new site. The 10 years of custom development we had on the old site resulted in band-aid over band-aid, so rather than continue the development course we were on, we demolished it and built something new. Ok, so it's been a bit of a learning process for us trying to get this new system running at the efficiency levels of the previous one, but after a bunch of adjustments to our web servers, it seems to be doing quite well.

Big reason #2: Our vendors have been really stingy with the product training. The economy has hurt many of them, so they're stretched thin and haven't been doing events like they were before. Without the training, I don't get to see all the new stuff, don't get to learn what makes it cool, and don't have stuff to write about.

Reason #2 isn't going to stop me any more, but reason #3 might. We're re-vamping Tool Parts Direct over the next few months to go into the same system as we're using for ToolBarn. Not an easy task with the amount of data we have in that system, but it's very necessary to continue supporting our customers the way they've become accustomed to. So, that's something to be looking forward to, but the blog isn't going to get as much attention as I'd like.

But there will be some exciting updates coming soon, so stay tuned.