Eat Cheese
Today is going to be a rough day. Planning on being at work around 7am in order to catch up. I think this is my first blog post about work. While it consumes most of my day I found other things to blog about so I guess that is a good thing. Too many interruptions throughout the day to get backlog done. I have a backlog of a backlog. Usually when I start the day this early I start acting loopy by lunch time…that is if I don’t start falling asleep by that time. EDIT: I’m at work now and the internet is slow as molasses, so any jump on production I thought I was going to have…ain’t gonna happen.
Ryan has been playing ping pong almost every day. Monday night I was practicing my serve with Ryan on the other side of the table. He was just talking to me while I was attempting some serves I saw Ma Lin do on YouTube. The next thing I know the ball is coming back at me with speed. I started paying attention, Ryan was up on his bean bag, leaning on the table swatting at the balls I was sending over at weird angles and actually returning them. I think he is going to be the next Olympian at ping pong.
Ecommerce-wise I shelved using Magento because of speed issues. It really stinks because the Magento solution is so packed with features but it seems more tailored to a dedicated server environment. Even on a dedicated server I read post about it being slow so it appears the Magento team needs to work on optimizing their code.
I installed OSCommerse and have begun to customize it to have the exact look I had with Magento. The OSCommerce structure is a messy nested table one that makes me very unhappy. So far I have dedicated time to converting everything over to a CSS/DIV structure which has gone really well. From what I have seen OSCommerce is infinitely faster than Magento and has an ample feature set.
The Wizard's interests include programming web features in Flash and JQuery, spending time with my family, playing with gadgets and finding deals online.
