I have completed the first part of a new module for the open source ecommerce software Magento which aims to add in a bunch of additional functionality specific for Australia. You can find the module, along with installation instructions at the Fontis Magento project page.
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Is it just me or does the Australian Government fundamentally have something against its citizens using the Internet? The latest is a proposal to require ISPs to ban users who are caught pirating copyrighted material. I thought punishing criminals was the job of the police?
However, I have worked out what the reason is behind all these attempts to destroy Australia’s internet access: the Government is attempting to dissuade or prevent people from using the Internet so that our crappy networks will be able to handle the increasing bandwidth needed for multimedia transfers (think YouTube, IPTV, Skype, etc). Instead of upgrading the networks I’m sure it’s much cheaper to just stop people using them. Devious bastards.
In my new position at Fontis, I have been tasked with continuing development on a somewhat larger project for an external client. It doesn’t sound like anything too dramatic - web site written in PHP, using the CakePHP framework, and driven by a database. I just didn’t factor in Murphy’s Law.
There has been a disturbing lack of activity on this blog over the last month but, rest assured, I am still alive and well. I’ve been taking a holiday of sorts from blogging but now I plan on getting back to business.
The new year has brought a change for me - I am now working at Fontis IT alongside two of my friends from my days at uni (when I was still a student that is); it’s nice knowing other people at work right off the bat. I’m still continuing with the jobs I was doing before but now I have a nicer place to work (an office in the city) and the promise of further projects to work on after I’m done with my current batch . Overall I think it should be beneficial for everyone!
So, happy new year, I’m back, back again (tell a friend) and I hope to get some good posts up soon. I predict the first will be dealing with my further experience with ExtJS and jQuery.
One of my friends just sent me this and I felt I had to share it! I think it’s actually scarily accurate:
Merry Christmas to all! For those of you who do not recognise the holiday - happy holidays! International Talk Like A Pirate Day was a few months ago so we Pastafarians have got our celebrating out of the way already.