So today I was stumbling around the internet looking for the best CMS solution available and came across (what seems to be) an pretty amazing open-source e-commerce solution. I must say, at first look and a quick install, Magento is pretty impressive. It takes a lot of the difficult stuff out of developing an e-commerce solution.
The first huge benefit and time saver I came across is it’s built-in Authorize.net, Google Checkout and Paypal support. Worried about security? Don’t be…Magento utilizes SSL in everything it does and is PCI compliant. This is a pretty big time saver in itself. Just type in your account name and it’s ready to rock.
Next, the back end. It’s a bit tricky to get around, but once you figure it out it’s extremely informative. You’re able to totally manage this thing from the admin panel and it seems to be really effective. I’m actually quite astonished at what it does. They really took everything into account during development. inventory levels, sales, coupons…EVERYTHING. There’s even an RSS Feed to tell you which items you’re running low on (assuming you carry inventory).
Best of all, it’s totally open-source. You can edit anything you want and build it to suit your needs. The store front is fully customizable as well.
I just had to get the word out on such an interesting and great open-source project. To me, there’s nothing better than free.
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So I just found yet another IE bug. This time the length of characters when definining a DIV’s ID is involved.
For the nFront Security website I developed a "theater" page so people can watch all the videos in one place. I’m using an open source flash media player (I forgot the name, but I’ll update this in a minute) and it works by writing out the player to a div. You must, obviously, define the div it is going to write to. No problem right….
WRONG! Being the descriptive coder I like to try to be, I named the DIV "nFrontPasswordFilterConfiguration" . Since I always use Firefox (until debugging time comes around) I didn’t notice this error. What would happen is that all the movies would appear, except this one. The only thing that was different was that the id name was longer. Since I’ve got a knack it seems for doing things that cause these bugs appear I decided to shorten the name to "nFrontPasswordFilterConfig"
VOILA! Works like a charm now. Therefore, the maximum length a DIV ID can be in IE is somewhere in the range of 26 - 33. I would guess it’s 30, but don’t quote me. I’ll find out an exact number for ya.
Hope this helps someone.
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I’m surprised that I really haven’t heard a lot about this yet, but someone came up with a compressed version of the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js library in a single file. Obviously it’s called Protoaculous and it really made a difference on the new nFrontSecurity site I’m developing.
You can download it from http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core/files or directly HERE.
Also, if you guys wouldn’t mind checking out the new site and letting me know what you think. Our dev is going on at nostupidpasswords.com
Thanks!
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