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Back in the states with a full nights rest in my comfy bed.

Still missing the weather in India for sure.

Posted in the Personal category.

My trip to India is almost over, and I can honestly say I will miss everyone Ive met, the Indian sun, the way of life, everything.

This has been one of the best experiences of my life, hands down. I cannot begin to describe how valuable trips like this are for human beings in general. People need to get out, see places, experience what others experience. It gives a much needed, fresh new perspective on life in general.

Homeward bound!

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YEP.
I will be in India from January, 08 2010 - January, 24 2010.

I will be working with our offshore team on a number of company issues, and I hope to teach and learn at the same time.

I will be riding at least 1 elephant while there.

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Web trends are always changing, seriously, it seems like they change weekly.

One of the most valuable tools I have found to keep me fighting on the front lines (and keeping me from sleeping in a van down by the river) is NetTuts.com.

Most of the tutorials are very well written, and consise, but be aware of the moderation process. I have seen a few tutorials that stray away from proven best practices. These tutorials are obviously written by amateur developers... The user comments will set you straight though, thats for sure.

Seriously, they can be pretty brutal.

Recent awesome tutorials :

• OO CSS
• CodeIgniter Pagination
• Lock down your site (PHP)

Never stop studying, seriously, it has kept my bills paid in this recession for sure.

Posted in the Interwebz category.

I finally wrote a custom error handler that I like, so you can bet it will be included in all of my upcoming projects.

It re-directs on error(fatal or notice) to an HTML page, and sends me an e-mail with the error details.

Outputting your error(s) to the view is incredibly dangerous by the way... (I've actually seen MySQL errors on facebook, shhhh).

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I've been getting pretty good at Magento customization and skinning, and the platform is growing on me.

The extensions library is borderline outrageous, and this is the heart of any good open-source project in my opinion.

Things I would like to see in future releases :

• Streamlined installs (similar to jQuery, where you select which modules your store will use, and the output is a streamlined Magento installation)
• Even more performance tuning
• Add external style sheets and javascripts through the admin, without editing XML files
• More accepted payment gateways built into the admin, without the installation of an extension

Using the platform, I can create a very robust e-commerce platform for your small business starting at $1000 dollars (2 designs submitted for your approval).

Please contact me if you are interested, and we can get started right away.

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I've been using CodeIgniter lately and it has given me hope in OO PHP and MVC architecture without using Rails.

NetTuts have some pretty well summarized CodeIgniter tutorials , check them out.

Posted in the Interwebz category.

I am honestly happier than I have ever been.

I've got great people around me, great job, great band, great weather, great food, great life.

That is all.

Posted in the Personal category.