I agree that Magento is a properly designed enterprise commerce package and that most other OS commerce packages are spaghetti. But Magento is just... Impenetrable. You wander around forever just trying to figure out how to change some simple thing. Knock the PHP hack carts all you want, but I bet I can figure out how to graft on a quick feature about a billion times faster in that than in Magento. And when you're talking OS solutions, a great many users will be of the hacker type just wanting to git 'r done.
Because for all their high-and-mighty pontificating about "freedom" and "rights" and "DRM" and whatever, most people just like to get stuff for free/cheap.
Would Apple or the RIAA or Sony or whoever all of a sudden one day say "It's illegal to copy and share our stuff, but we promise never to come after you," you can bet your ass that the threads ranting about "my rights!" would dry up lickety-split. Because for the overwhelming majority of folks, it's not about the principle of the thing -- it's about you getting in the way of me getting stuff for free.
Sad, but true for all except a limited number of genuinely-involved purists.
1% is still a couple million people. I'm not going to abandon that many potential visitors/customers by being an arrogant snob...
Assuming your website(s) appeals to everyone in the world, which is exceptionally unlikely. With a limited amount of time/resources, the more valuable investment of effort is in making the experience great for the vast majority. That's a cold hard truth of the one truly limited resource: time.
I dig the passion, make no mistake, but the real world has this annoying way of intruding.
That's probably why it's not a main candidate for a beginner's book. It's harder to get running on a newbie machine (which probably has Windows) and a key "plus" (portability) is both too far off in the future for the newbie to reeeeeeeaaaallly care about at that point AND that key plus (portability) is not exactly as advertised.
Not an argument as to merit of the environment, mind you.
Not sure what's going on, but every once in a while, the same story shows up twice on the homepage. Sometimes the wording is different, but it's basically the same story. Maybe you guys should use FrontPage to check your code.
Remember your dorky Junior High principal who would shave his head or kiss a pig or agree to get a pie in the face if the school met its fundraising goals on $1 candy bars because that would inspire you?
You then ask the client to file a bug report with the maker of the browser, and proceed to write a temporary fix to at least keep them happy for the moment. Inform your client that you intend to continue providing only W3C-compliant HTML, and that any temporary fixes you provide could go away, based on changes to the standards or other requirements.
Then "your client" goes to another firm who can "just make it work," given that the client (and their customers) don't give a rat's-ass about some obscure standards body or filling bug reports with browser makers.
Seriously, if that would actually be Open Source's approach with the layman, it would never get anywhere outside of academic circles. Firefox's current success has nothing to do with "standards" and everything to do with "I heard it protects me from viruses and spyware that I heard about on CNN."
Google means well, but it almost certainly can't win with this move. They won't give the world the keys to the Google castle, of course, and the (often petty, let's face it folks) FOSS community will see what Google gave back and say "that's it?!?!" and be generally grumpy.
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I agree that Magento is a properly designed enterprise commerce package and that most other OS commerce packages are spaghetti. But Magento is just... Impenetrable. You wander around forever just trying to figure out how to change some simple thing. Knock the PHP hack carts all you want, but I bet I can figure out how to graft on a quick feature about a billion times faster in that than in Magento. And when you're talking OS solutions, a great many users will be of the hacker type just wanting to git 'r done.
Magento is just waaaaaay to "pure" for my tastes.
"... no virus hassles..."
You are adorable.
Because for all their high-and-mighty pontificating about "freedom" and "rights" and "DRM" and whatever, most people just like to get stuff for free/cheap.
Would Apple or the RIAA or Sony or whoever all of a sudden one day say "It's illegal to copy and share our stuff, but we promise never to come after you," you can bet your ass that the threads ranting about "my rights!" would dry up lickety-split. Because for the overwhelming majority of folks, it's not about the principle of the thing -- it's about you getting in the way of me getting stuff for free.
Sad, but true for all except a limited number of genuinely-involved purists.
Except if you end up tangling with Superman. Even when he's crocked and flicking peanuts at the barroom mirror, he's still a bad mofo.
Sometimes my chosen peer group embarrasses me. This is one of those times.
Can you yodel and throw chairs at the same time? I might pay to see that.
1% is still a couple million people. I'm not going to abandon that many potential visitors/customers by being an arrogant snob...
Assuming your website(s) appeals to everyone in the world, which is exceptionally unlikely. With a limited amount of time/resources, the more valuable investment of effort is in making the experience great for the vast majority. That's a cold hard truth of the one truly limited resource: time.
I dig the passion, make no mistake, but the real world has this annoying way of intruding.
I tried to access that site, and I got a good look at their DERI Error.
you could just show some evidence that the person may be linked to a terrorist organization, and wahlah, you have a warrant
TERRORIST KEYWORD PROBABILITY: 92.89% IP LOGGED. FEDERAL FISTING IMMINENT.Web 4.0 (delta)
For its time, a really great game.
well, not instant
That's probably why it's not a main candidate for a beginner's book. It's harder to get running on a newbie machine (which probably has Windows) and a key "plus" (portability) is both too far off in the future for the newbie to reeeeeeeaaaallly care about at that point AND that key plus (portability) is not exactly as advertised.
Not an argument as to merit of the environment, mind you.
PDHossYeah, what he said.
Dood...
IronPython 0.9.2
Not sure what's going on, but every once in a while, the same story shows up twice on the homepage. Sometimes the wording is different, but it's basically the same story. Maybe you guys should use FrontPage to check your code.
PDHoss
Immortal? Clearly you have no experience with NTBackup.
PDH
"no known cases have yet emerged where an attacker took advantage of the public exploit code."
I appreciate this clarification. And I'm sure such a clarification will be included in the next IE bug report posted on Slashdot... Right?
PDHoss
Remember your dorky Junior High principal who would shave his head or kiss a pig or agree to get a pie in the face if the school met its fundraising goals on $1 candy bars because that would inspire you?
Yeah... that guy evidently has a new title. CEO.
PDHoss
You then ask the client to file a bug report with the maker of the browser, and proceed to write a temporary fix to at least keep them happy for the moment. Inform your client that you intend to continue providing only W3C-compliant HTML, and that any temporary fixes you provide could go away, based on changes to the standards or other requirements.
Then "your client" goes to another firm who can "just make it work," given that the client (and their customers) don't give a rat's-ass about some obscure standards body or filling bug reports with browser makers.
Seriously, if that would actually be Open Source's approach with the layman, it would never get anywhere outside of academic circles. Firefox's current success has nothing to do with "standards" and everything to do with "I heard it protects me from viruses and spyware that I heard about on CNN."
PDHoss
Yeah, the hardware thing has been a disaster.
Storm theatre serious artist #1: Damage report!
Storm theatre serious artist #2: Our credibility is shot! Our theatre is a laughing stock! What do we do now?
[dramatic pause]
Storm theatre serious artist #1: We die.
...I empathize with Barbie. Math is hard.
Google means well, but it almost certainly can't win with this move. They won't give the world the keys to the Google castle, of course, and the (often petty, let's face it folks) FOSS community will see what Google gave back and say "that's it?!?!" and be generally grumpy.
PDHoss
4/14: This project sucks. I hate you all.
4/13: This project sucks. I hate you all.
4/12: This project sucks. I hate you all.
4/11: Hot chick from Marketing was at meeting. Woohoo!
4/10: This project sucks. I hate you all.
I don't know about it being the Buddha one... Bookshelf Symbol 7 Shift tilde sure looks like the Nazi-asshats version to me.