I have recently been working on a VirtueMart site and I thought I’d jot down my thoughts on the differences between it and Magento. I wont go in depth in to the quality of the code that these are written with - there are plenty of others out there who have done that. Suffice to say I haven’t had to re-write either drastically to get them to work and most of what I have done has been through their admin interfaces.
I will finish the review with a list of the specs of the two systems in a fairly off the shelf manner. Don’t jump straight to this as you may leap to the conclusion that what you need is the more fully featured option, and this may not be true. Both systems have a whole range of plugins, and both systems have a large development community (although VirtueMart probably does have the edge here).
I think that all blogs are started with good intentions, the largest of which being “I will update this regularly.” and like all blog writers I fell into that trap.
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Unless you are writing small applications with a tiny user-base then you will want a mechanism to ensure data integrity. Optimistic locking provides this without performance crippling row locks.
Smashing Magazine has compiled a rather great article about Air, filled with linkes to tutorials, forums, official articles, and other lumps of great useful stuff.
What do you do when faced with a multitude of free content? Why, look for rude words of course.
There is a currently a shift in recruitment towards a need for Agile developers, it is just a pity that some people don’t seem to understand what that means.
