A Great Day for Open Source eCommerce

Filed under: Development, Technology — Micheal on March 31st, 2008

Today Magento officially announced the production release of Magento 1.0. A longtime osCommerce integrator, I have been waiting for this day for quite some time. I can’t wait to use Magento in production!

Just a few features I am excited about:

• Manage multiple stores under one global installation
• Dataflow system for incoming/outgoing data feeds
• Built off of the Zend framework
• Layered navigation
• One click upgrades and installation of extensions
• osCommerce import extension

Read more about Magento at http://www.magentocommerce.com

John Maeda on Simplicity

Filed under: Design, Development — Micheal on March 11th, 2008

I am always on the search for like-minded “Hybrid Minded” individuals. One such individual is John Maeda, an amazing designer/programmer with a focus on simplicity. This presentation is both informative and hilarious. John Maeda is a professor at MIT, read more about simplicity at his blog.

Fresh off the Press!

Filed under: Development — Micheal on March 8th, 2008

I am excited to announce the launch of my new personal website. I am unsure of why I decided to attack this project due to my current life load being so heavy; however, I have had this concept floating around in my head for some time and had to do it. Keep in mind that it breaks most traditional elements of design. My goal was for a 100×100 viewpoint, higher the resolution the better. FYI, it works on the iPhone!

So here it is: www.michealmorgan.com