iShop therefore I am
Ok, bad rip from Rene Descartes, but sort of catchy. It's been a year since I began working with the team at MRN and I thought it would be a good time to give a little update on what I have been doing. A year ago the idea sounded great: create a scalable platform that could manage a multitude of e-commerce sites for various vertical markets that the company decided to market products to. For an application architect like myself it was a great opportunity, design and build the platform from the ground up and work with some great people. What is involved in building a platform like that? CRM/ERP integration, Flash/Flex/AIR development, AJAX/Json, Java, PHP, SQL, HTML and CSS to name a few. Fifteen sites down and more to go. Needless to say it has been a busy, challenging and rewarding year. Each day presents a new challenge, I have had to dust off some old skills and learn some new ones, which is never a bad thing.
