Programming

The Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook

Published March 30, 2011 | By admin

Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook

Development in Magento

I would have to say that I chose Magento in the first place because it would have a lot of the features we would need available without writing or editing code.
It turns out, that wasn’t so. There will never be a platform you don’t want to tweak, and Magento code may be some of the most complicated PHP code you have seen. It was when I first dug into it.
There were no books at that time and I depended on forum posts to get my answers and I made many mistakes long the way.
I love cookbooks. Telling me how to write the code, documentation or giving me a toy example may help a bit. But a cookbook with real code is something that gives me ideas. And that’s just what the Magento Development Cookbook is. Read more... (996 words, 2 images, estimated 3:59 mins reading time)

Posted in Magento | Tagged Electronic commerce, Magento, magento book, magento cookbook, magento ebook, magento snippets, osCommerce, Php, Programming | 7 Comments

How to MacGyver Yourself Some Software

Published August 14, 2008 | By admin

Other working titles for this article were “Guerilla Programming” and “How to Build Rube Goldberg Apps”, but I had to make a choice.

I fell into programming because I was broke and bored, and I knew software would speed up some of the things I do, so I learned a few languages. All you really have to learn is one major language and then you can write code in a lot of the rest, because most of the common languages are very similar. At least that has been my experience. I started with Basic on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, wrote shareware in Visual Basic 6, then went to the web with PHP. Along the way, I’ve played around with Ruby and Javascript. Read more... (1210 words, 3 images, estimated 4:50 mins reading time)

Posted in Programming | Tagged Apps, Google Code, KlipFolio, open source, Programming, Tweetdeck, Visual Basic | 14 Comments

Back to Writing

Published July 3, 2008 | By admin

The books and web pages I read affect me a lot. I use them as tools sometimes. If I read a book on productivity, I become more productive while I am reading it. If I read a book on digital photography, I see pictures everywhere. If I read a book on design, I notice every logo and sign. The knowledge sticks with me afterwards, but the act of reading keeps it in the forefront of my mind.

And, if I read about programming and computers, I become a robot and start writing really shitty articles. Robot Read more... (600 words, 2 images, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)