Development

Something in the latest X-Cart community newsletter caught my eye, and I'm not just talking about the questionable grammar. They were happy to announce launching a service to bring Products from an X-Cart store in to a Facebook tab. The service isn't free, but (if it is easy to manage,) the benefit of being able to market products to all 500 million+ Facebook users, and link out to your eCommerce site, should more than pay for itsef.

Hello world, my name is Ian (pronounced "eye-yen"). I am a busy guy 'round these parts at Ninthlink. But I wanted to give a quick intro on who I am and what you can expect from me. I am a big Chargers fan. I am still hurting after that loss to the Jests, I mean Jets. 13-3 season and seriously, how did that happen? Last year I made the switch from PC -> Mac You would be calling me a…

I've encountered a lot of challenging situations as a PHP programmer, from the big things (creating and optimizing complex applications that access millions of rows of data) to the smaller things (figuring out where to put more reminders after I've run out of room for post-its on my monitors). One of the problems I face most often is trying to explain to people what I do for a living. Generally, I just answer with "I'm a programmer" and people drop…