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.
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 [...]
There are many ways to communicate and store data from front-end to back-end, but many require AJAX which may take too much time to develop or might not fit the project correctly. A neat alternative to save data and be able to access that data from the server is using browser cookies. Cookies can be created and destroyed by javascript, and while the syntax can be confusing, I’ve gathered this little script that will make it easier to use…
It seems my posts lately are always in relation to solving a problem or answering a question for someone else. If you’re looking for a way to display categories in the sidebar, change category display, or create a category menu then this post is probably for you.
Magento has become quite a popular system in recent months.. snippets, tutorials, and other resources are in high demand for the system. Since I’ve been working with Magento for quite a while now, I feel like creating a page where I can continually add useful code snippets and tutorials for Magento. If you don’t see what you’re looking for here, tweet me @thinkclay or check back later! Let’s look at some pros and cons of Magento and then some useful code snippets..
