http://www.commtd.com/blog What we're up to... Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:43:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I changed my twitter username from MichaelAtCommTD to mikeridley to save space.  When I signed up for twitter I hadn't used twitter before.  Shocking and logically consistent, I know!  So I hadn't thought about how having a long username would steal space from reply messages.  But now that I've been ... http://www.commtd.com/blog/2008/12/24/michaels-twitter-username-changed/ We haven't been particularly good about updating our blog lately, but in case anyone thinks we have dropped off the map - we haven't!  So what have we been up to?  Well, we have been busy with some web design work but not as much as I would have hoped ... http://www.commtd.com/blog/2008/11/26/just-a-quick-status-update/ When I first started looking at Zen Cart templates, I approached the task from the perspective of creating a WordPress theme.  The Zen Cart template documentation, such as it is, does a good job of explaining the directory layout to use for a custom template, but it doesn't actually explain ... http://www.commtd.com/blog/2008/10/22/zen-cart-template-approach/ We have added the wonderful Twitter Tools and Disqus plugins for WordPress.  Twitter Tools is a plugin which allows automatic Twitter tweets when blog posts are published, as well as automatic posting of Twitter content on a WordPress blog.  For now, we only have it configured to go from WordPress ... http://www.commtd.com/blog/2008/10/06/more-social-web-technology-on-our-blog/ I was supposed to write the Delicious Day post for last week, but I got busy so here it is Friday and I'm just getting it out.  Over a week late.  Sorry about that, gentle readers. I do have two great services to cover so hopefully that will make up for ... http://www.commtd.com/blog/2008/10/03/delicious-day-browsershots-and-total-validator/ We have started using the web-based Toggl application for time tracking at Communications Tool & Die.  Initially we were tracking our time using a module in our SugarCRM system, but that just seemed to clunky for our relatively simple needs.  We don't bill by the hour, so we don't need ... http://www.commtd.com/blog/2008/09/26/toggl-for-time-tracking/ One of the services we provide at Communications Tool & Die is custom Zen Cart integration.  Unfortunately, the existing documentation on Zen Cart template creation is...limited.  I have been working on documenting the template page functions internally for our developers but once I have this in a presentable format I ... http://www.commtd.com/blog/2008/09/25/zen-cart-templating/ The proliferation of web browsers is a real pain from a development standpoint.  Every new browser is yet another platform to be supported.  Every site now has yet more idiosynchrocies to take into account.  So when Google announced Chrome recently, I was curious to see what the carnage would be ... http://www.commtd.com/blog/2008/09/19/standards-based-design-makes-google-chrome-less-scary/ I recently wrote about the Dojo Docs project and how the existing Dojo documentation leaves something to be desired.  There was a Stack Overflow question asking for Dojo resources and a really good list was provided.  If you're looking to learn more about Dojo, the Stack Overflow response is a ... http://www.commtd.com/blog/2008/09/19/dojo-resource-list-on-stack-overflow/ Delicious Day is a new weekly post that will showcase our favorite findings we have bookmarked at delicious.com through out the week. I am a huge fan of checklists and use many in my personal and professional life. So, naturally, my first favorite is The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period! This ... http://www.commtd.com/blog/2008/09/18/delicious-day-checklists-and-cheet-sheets/