Hard to believe how time is flying fast. Within that two years, there were several pretty stressful situations where I questioned my will to stick to the work I was doing. My private life scaled to bare minimum as I struggled with everyday/night studying the Magento and keeping ongoing projects in order, while our team grow from 2 man to over 15.

Sometimes I wonder if I would have strength to hold on to this path if I hadn’t met my fiancée, Ivana. After a year of going out together I decided to propose her. Luckily for me she said “yes”. Few days from now on September 11th, one year after our engagements, I will be getting married.

I cannot express my happiness at the moment.

There is more to life than just programming . I am off to my vacation and wedding preparations. Back on September the 30th.

Cheers.

Certainly the biggest thing that changed my life is the recent news that I will become a father in just a little less than 9 months from now. Got me thinking to what true values are in our lives. Most of my last few weeks I spent on renovating the house, new furniture etc.

However, my coding skills have stayed sharp in that time as my job never rests. Although I am currently doing the “Project Management” in my 4 people team, most of the time (60-70%) I actually code stuff (Magento projects).

My recent “exhibition” to the mobile world of Android turned out to be not just a test ride but something that will fit in nicely in the future. With that in mind I decided to ditch some of the previous categories on my site and divide it among Magento and Android related stuff.

I also decided that from now on I will publish all my future public work under the “Projects” section of the site. Most likely I’ll be using github to version my stuff so it will be far more easier to correct reported issue and distribute updates to those who use it.

Hopefully the first project I will upload on the github will be Mapy.

That’s it for now. Expect new articles and new extensions soon.

Cheers.

On the work side, I am coding (slowly, but with detail) an Android app for Magento, using XMLRCP API. Its around 70-80% until reaching the “Alpha” version. This is something I am working on on my own time. Hoping to introduce some new changes and setup some grounds for future possible Magento-Android, or general eCommerce-Android mobile development in the company I work for (Inchoo.net). After (long time ago) C# and (everyday) PHP development, Java language was pretty easy to pick up so Android development for me proven to be an easy step. Not to mention that it fits nicely into the eCommerce.

Basically I am counting on writing more and more Magento-Android articles, code samples, etc. from now on.

Will keep you posted on the progress.

For all of you reading my blog, thank you. I truly appreciate all your comments and email feedback’s.

Cheers.

I know I usually write about the development, mostly posting some code samples etc. This post is a bit different in that regards. Figured why not post something visually from my everyday life. Besides I was planning for some time to start using the Yahoo Flickr service.

Today I opened my snail mailbox and noticed a envelope with 2 photos in it. What a pleasant surprise, I got the photos from a PSC car center from which I purchased a car.

This is my (officially) first car in life, Chevrolet Lacetti. Bought it on leasing/credit in January 2010. Serves me fine for now .

To be honest I would have rather bought a top of the line new PC/laptop but I had to move to country so I needed a full time transportation sorted out.

I just don’t see Facebook fit on my “freelance” business level, and from friends perspective I like more personal approach or possible Skype/Yahoo/GoogleTalk chat. In regards to that, few months ago, I deleted all my photos and posts (status updates made during all these years of usage), changed the security level to maximum, etc. All that was left on my account was my profile photo and 2-3 personal info labels.

Everything was OK for these few months until this morning I logged in. When I logged in I saw bunch of my posts (status updates) from 2008 appeared and listed on my wall.

Questions instantly popped my mind. WTF? Who is this “Facebook” and what gives it the right not to delete something I specifically tell it to delete. What gives it the right to lie to you that something is deleted just to be reappeared few months later? What gives it right not to allow you to delete your account once its created?

Some of you might not see this as “that big of a deal”, but I do. Stuff like this makes you wonder, what tomorrow brings to all of us. Luckily I was not hooked onto it as some are.

I don’t see my life fitting into “Public Is the New Social Norm” paradigm.

“Thank” you Facebook, but no more, I’m off.

Hope to post something useful soon. I appreciate all the comments and emails.

Cheers.

I know its not much, but it makes me happy

To all of the contributors of Snippi.net one BIG THANK YOU!

I appreciate the snippets you posted. Hopefully others involved in learning Magento appreciate them also.

I am waiting for 100 snippets to be posted after which I’ll take some time to redesign site and boost its usability.

Cheers.

Module is really simple, not much to it. Note that Zend Framework library it self is not packed with module, you need to download is separately and copy paste to modules /library folder.

It has only two files, one .info file needed for Drupal to recognize it and one .module file whose content you can see below.

function ZendFrameworkLoader_boot()
{
	//Get current file path, cut off the file name and use the rest as folder path
	$siteBasePath = str_replace('ZendFrameworkLoader.module', '', __FILE__);
 
	//Append subfolder named 'library' to the path
	$siteLibraryPath = $siteBasePath.'library';
 
	//Add script wide include paths
	set_include_path('.'	. PATH_SEPARATOR . $siteLibraryPath
							. PATH_SEPARATOR . $siteLibraryPath.'/Zend'
							. PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path());
 
	include_once $siteLibraryPath.'/Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php';
	Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
}

As you can see module is using hook_boot() to handle (inject) auto-loading code. Therefore try not to call any of the Zend library components in hook_boot functions, latter is good.

Installing a module is done by simply copy-pasting unarchived module to /sites/all/modules/ folder. By doing so you should have /sites/all/modules/ActiveCodeline folder in place if you copy-pasted it ok.

Download ActiveCodeline_ZendFrameworkLoader.