Archive for August, 2008

Magento as CMS

I’ve been testing the Magento plattform for a while and I must say it’s good – but complicated. I don’t find there menu very logical. But the system is great for an e-commerce entreprenur that can have one CMS for several stores.

I’ve tried to modified the layout of the store and it’s both easy and not easy. If you know your CSS you can basically have one design for each product page. But that also makes it difficult. I find if very hard to make a good overall design, but then again I’m no designer.

Unfortently I don’t have that much time at nights to work on these small projects but I will give you a more detailed report furter on.

Twit – Greatest podcast ever

Hi, don’t know how many of you that listen to this podcast, TWIT (This week in tech). I’ve followed the podcast for more then 18 month, and I can only say – it’s the best! It gives you a great view of what’s happening in the techworld online.

Sure I follow a lot of others blogs on the subjects as well, but I think Leo Laporte have a long history online and he seems to be very updated on what happends online. The site twit.tv also have live broadcasting with webcam shows for about 40h /week.

Here’s a link to where you can pick up the latest podcast of Twit.

Testfreaks is growing

The summer is finally over (hm… good/or bad?).

Slowly everyone is returning to the office, and the developments of Testfreaks are speeding up again. I’ve had a great summer, with a lot of fun thing. I have been working all summer, and I really need a long vacation. But instead of having a long summer vacation I’ve been planing on going to Thailand over christmas and new year.

This morning when I got back from a week in England with no internet connection I had over 600 mails in my inbox. Most of it was actually spam, but after spending three hours setting actions on the 10% of real mails I had I could finally focus at work.

Working with a decentralized organisation, is very special. And when your going on a vacation you need a way to make sure that work will continue even though I’m not at the office. And thanks to Niel, my team leader on the Philippines I could focus on having a good time with my girlfriend.

In the near future we have decided to make Testfreaks bigger, and we will be hiring new people. Both in Sweden and outside of Sweden. This will ensure a bigger and even greater review site in future. Our focus is still to be the best and biggest review site online, and we are soon there :)

In the next couple of month we will add a lot of new categories on Testfreaks, and we see great potentials…