My apologies for being away – things have been rather hectic.
Anyway, today marks a new evolution to the site. I’ve cleaned up the site and now have set up the capability to show code, which has been one of the things keeping me from posting. Now that that is set up, I’ll be catching up on all the partial posts I’ve been saving in draft and releasing them next week. I’ll be starting with some MySQL posts and then coving some stuff with Symfony.
So today marked the culimnation of my first webinar production experience. Over a week of preping off and on for a 45 minute conference (of which my part was about 15 mintues) sure made for a fun time. I haven’t listened to the recording yet, however I think it went well overall. Now if only there had been a little more participant feedback along with a couple of practice runs, I think it would have been near perfect, as far as presentations go.
Anywho, I’ll take today’s experience to heart when I start making some podcasts for the site ^^v
Tags: webinars
Seeing that there’s been interest with Magento, I figured I would write up my experiences since the last time I published about it.
First off, Magento does a fairly good job about documenting the basics about the program. As I found out last time, it will take a bit of digging to get into super-specific problems – mine just happened to be a host issue that had to be worked around.
So basically, to access the administration side of the system, you need to go to the root directory of where you placed Magento and add /admin to the end of the address. In my case, I actually created a store folder to keep it separate from the rest of the website so the address would look similar to: http://somesite.com/store/admin.
Now during the installation process, you created an administrator account. Using that will get you access to the backend – which happens to be a nice sales dashboard (one of the features that really sold me on Magento is the reporting capabilities build in, not sure if other OSS e-commerce solutions do something similar. Feel free to post a comment and let me know what’s up with the other solutions. Heck, if you have a good review of any of them, send it to me too =p).
One of my big quips about Magento at this point is that even with my broadband connection, Magento seems to take it’s time loading initially, which I sincerely hope they work on in future releases. Also at first brush, it seems a bit complex to build addon modules for Magento, which I have also seen comments about elsewhere when reading reviews about php|architect’s Magento guide.
I do like how the menu is organized, with the ability to create promotions for a particular date range, newsletter creation, and the ability to create personalized themes for stores (haven’t worked on creating one yet, but I do like that they give the option).
Anywho, I’ll keep playing around with Magento (when I’m not delving into symfony =p) and see what else I can come up with.
Tags: Magento
Well, I’m back with a quick update – I’m close to getting ready to finish my site overhaul. Not been able to work on the site or post in a while – it’s been real busy around here, heh.
I’m also planning on getting those tutorials up soon as well. If only for more hours in the day =p
Well, if anyone is reading this allow me to say, welcome!
Let me start off by explaining a bit about why I’m blogging here, what BlueFire is about, etc etc.
My name is Alex, and I am the founder of BlueFire Data Solutions. There’s still a lot of development going on with the rest of the site (and seeing that I just got WordPress installed I’ve got work to do on my blog layout =p ) – even so, feel free to look around.
I have been working with web-based database systems for about two years now, and wanted to continue further development in the field. I started BlueFire to do just that.
While working with my current employer, I have developed the skills needed to move systems from paper-based over to fully electronic, validated systems. These types of systems eliminate waste – time, resources, and movement.
Instead of hunting down the necessary forms for that critical bit of information, users are able to go to a centralized web-based system – available from any network connected device – and have access to that information in real time.
Not only does efficiency increase, but think about if you’re being audited – your company would be able to pull together information faster that ever before.
Now, as for what else I’m planning for the blog. I want to be able to provide gleams of information from my experiences on a daily basis as a database administrator. I also want to provide tutorials for the various tools I use, especially where tutorials for some the of products I develop with are far and few between.
Anywho, I’ll end this posting for now, but look forward to a post later this week – maybe even a tutorial for Pentaho …..
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