My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.
I’ve only recently started developing Facebook Apps and being a strong front-end developer I was confident that I would be able to pickup FBJS quickly. My confidence what short-lived however, once i discovered that Facebook had a very restricting framework and cache system that would make JS programming something quite a bit less desirable than awesome frameworks like jQuery.
As usual, I’m sharing a solution a problem that I personally encountered and couldn’t find a great solution for. So I’ve been using my laptop more and more as my local development environment in order to keep things private and secure while in the dev stage. Among learning how to fully utilize SVN locally, I’ve been trying to setup my laptop to be a fully functional server while also being extremely easy to maintain and change my environment on the fly. To do this, I’m running MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) available for free at mamp.info as well as the Zend Framework bundled with Zend Tool.
After my own frustrations and time wasted trying to solve an issue that Magento’s core really should handle better, I finally found a way to enable all custom statuses and manual overrides on Sales/Orders. This little tutorial will help you setup a module to override the core and hopefully help you find peace to a very frustrating issue in the core.
As a developer, I’m always looking for ways to improve my coding practices and efficiency. In the programming world, I work almost completely with frameworks such as Zend and CodeIgnitor using MVC at it’s fullest. On the front-end, I’ve learned to use Blueprint CSS combined with semantic markup to standardize my layouts. But now, I’ve [...]
