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Comment on What’s holding desktop Linux back? by Noah

Noah — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:32:09 +0000

Askimet, there is none better.

Comment on What’s holding desktop Linux back? by Raquel Gerahty

Raquel Gerahty — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:37:51 +0000

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Comment on jQuery Mac style dock with fixed positioning by Noah

Noah — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:07:35 +0000

interface.js is the only one you don’t need there.

Comment on jQuery Mac style dock with fixed positioning by H@reesh

H@reesh — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:55:34 +0000

cud u pls explain wat to do

i need to kno wch all files to be included out of
fisheye.js iutil.js jquery.js interface.js

pls xplain…i’m a beginner…

Comment on PHP shopping cart dissapointments by Noah

Noah — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:45:52 +0000

Opencart is the one I’ve been using lately and it’s is relatively nice, There are some discrepancies I have with it, but they are minor compared to the other nightmare carts I’ve dealt with. I am very close to an initial release of a CodeIgniter based shopping cart.

Comment on PHP shopping cart dissapointments by seth

seth — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:01:35 +0000

The one thing opencart really has over the rest of them (or at least osCommerce and Zencart) is it’s file structure and templating system. Trying to change the design of osCommerce and Zencart is an absolute nightmare. With opencart, I had my design pretty much completely integrated in an hour and had written by first mod in about 5 hours.

Who cares what the admin interface looks like, that’s so easy to change… As for Magento, it seems actually pretty great, it just requires a powerful dedicated server to run smoothly which makes it only suitable for bigger shops.

Opencart has a long way to go, but I think it might be a pretty good base if you wanted to start a new branch. The one thing these carts really lack is some sort of hooks system that makes plugins really easy to integrate like Drupal provides.

Comment on Art Imitating Life by Jarrett

Jarrett — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:17:42 +0000

nice. Sounds like a company we know very well!

Comment on PHP shopping cart dissapointments by Noah

Noah — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:21:24 +0000

I just downloaded Open Cart again to reevaluate the code base. It is NOT CodeIgniter. It may be loosely based on it, but I would really say that the author of this app is just following MVC.

The issue I was bringing up is not how the cart functions as an ecommerce tool so much as the ease in which one can customize it. Yes, each of these carts can be customized no doubt, but some are far easier to customize than others.

My ideal cart will have very little inherent functionality outside of the basics of a cart, and the code base should be clear and well organized so I can easily change things that need changing and add things that need adding.

After looking over Open Cart’s code again, it may be a good base for me to use. I do remember being disappointed with it’s interface though and I felt the administration panel was lacking.

Comment on PHP shopping cart dissapointments by Mark

Mark — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:28:34 +0000

Apparently open cart uses the code igniter framework pretty much. My opinion is every site owner has different requirements. So you need to customize the cart no matter which one you choose.

The only thing perhaps that makes a difference among the ones you listed is whether or not they follow the principles of commerce. Meaning no matter the OOP that sits behind, the objective is to make sales.

Comment on What if Linux became Adobe’s new flagship OS? by Richard Chapman

Richard Chapman — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:31:11 +0000

Very interesting thought, very interesting indeed. I think it’s closer to a category 5 brainstorm though. I’ll muse on it now but I think it will take a week or so to ponder the implications. I don’t have any concrete data on why I feel Apple should be soiling their pants at the prospect of Adobe porting their software over to an operating system based on open standards. It could just be because it creates a level playing field… with an earth mover. Apple will have to make their software work on what is relentlessly becoming the LC, or see their overpriced hardware collecting dust at flea markets. In other words, join the club of cooperation or confine yourself to selling style, hipness, and little tiny gadgets.

Then Autodesk says, “hey, why can’t we do that?”. So now Steve Ballmer has to do a sweaty dance on stage and bluster about how Linux is a renegade OS stomping all over everyones’ IP, especially Microsoft’s.

Oh the permutations never end. This is going to be fun. Thanks so much for the thought. I’ll be busy pondering now.