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 Magento grows, so does it’s base for extensions and contributions. I often find myself browsing the collection of them, and try to experiment with a new extension on every site that I build. This is my list of must-haves and favorite magento extensions thus far, and hopefully I’ll add to this list as time [...]
Best compatible operating system for web hosting When you are choosing web hosting, one of the first things you need to choose is the operating system. If you are a techie, this is probably an easy choice, but if you don’t have technical background, then the very question “Operating system?! What is this?” will pop [...]
I’ve had my fair share of installs in shared hosting, but sometimes simple things like SVN can get very tricky with providers like Hostmonster or BlueHost. I hope that this shell will work as well for you as it has for me. Just copy the code and paste into a file on your server svninstall.sh and then to run just execute . .svninstall.sh and you’re off! Comment here if you get and errors and I’d be glad to help.
I’ve made a nice little FBJS Slider that I use quite often for animation within facebook. I hope that little snippets and code like this will help other developers make more interested and appealing Facebook applications, like we do at Room 214 currently. First with the styling #slideWrap creates an extremely wide canvas for the [...]
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.
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 [...]
