E-Commerce is a huge part of the internet, and choosing the right tool for the job is integral to success. At PRPL, our developers primarily work in PHP, so it was an easy choice going with Magento for our defacto E-Commerce platform. There's a laundry list of reasons why it's the best PHP shopping cart, but I won't go into it here -- check out the Magento website for that. 

Yesterday, I got the rare opportunity to work from home -- which is an entire blog post in itself. Through the tribulations that I had to work through yesterday, the largest was Magento. Who would have thought; Magento being a source of frustration. Haaa, I kid, I kid... sort of. My development environment at home is substantially different than what we use here at work. Namely, I run Zend Server CE 5.3 as opposed to a custom PHP 5.2.x build like on our iMacs at work.

As I previously mentioned, Packt Publishing contacted me to do a review of Keith Pope's Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development.

It's not uncommon for us to pass around web designer / studio web sites at PRPL. Someone tweets out a blog post, sends in a job application, we see something on a CSS gallery--however these sites reach our computers the result can typically end the same way: we start playing [for a lack of a better on-the-spot name] the 10-second game.