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 [...]
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.
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…
I love learning new programming languages, especially if it solves a need that I have and automates my process a bit more. I spent a couple hours learning AppleScript which is a programming language for Mac that let’s you access the API and make basic function calls to cocoa based programs and applications. One such need that I had is compressing my JavaScript and CSS files before uploading to the web server. There are many applications and ways to this online, but they all are three or more steps to get the compressed file. A while back I downloaded the YUI java applet to do the compression on my desktop via Terminal, which sped up my process a bit, but since I only used it once in a great while, I’d always have to look up the parameters that I needed to pass to it. So today when I went to look it up, I decided I was going to be adventurous and try something new. That adventure led me to a solution that I’m happy with, and you may enjoy as well.
A comparison of some of the most popular PHP-based Content Management Systems (CMS). The views and opinions expressed are simply that.. my views and opinions.. not so much straight facts. If there are systems mentioned that you would like to contribute input to, do so in the comments. Same goes for any systems that I neglect to mention: feel free to mention it in the comments and a quick pro/con comparison.
