Still Coding Through The Holidays

Today is Christmas 2008, but unlike many of my peers, I decided to go ahead and do a little work today. I spent some time creating the international versions of E-commerce For Everyone websites on one of our test domains. It was fun creating Amazon Associate websites for our French, German, Canadian and UK friends. I'm still working on the Japanese version (that one is gonna be a little tricky).

I had a revelation this week while working on the international versions of Amazon Associates. The first revelation is that it's not called Amazon Associates everywhere, it's actually called PartnerNet in Germany (that blew my mind for a minute, lol). Another revelation I had is that Babel has come a long way (your translations rock now). A third revelation is that even though it took me 20 minutes to do, I didn't need someone else who spoke Japanese to sign-up for the Japanese version of Amazon Associates.

I have to say that this month has been awesome for sales, I broke my monthly sales record too, so that is always encouraging. I'm even more excited now at the prospect of making lots of international revenue. I've primarily focused on the United States as my main source of sales, but if this recession has taught me anything, it's that I should diversify my already recession proof business. I'm excited by the prospect that internationally, there is still so much growth opportunity.

Coding Through The Holidays

The last two weeks have seen some decent days of coding. I worked on my new site editor for the e4e control panel, also I worked on the ability to shop by browsing brands, actors, directors and authors.

This gives people easy access to the favorite brands that they like. Personally, I enjoy that because I'm always looking for quality items. I bought some Dunkin Donuts coffee (stupid commercials), and it kept me on a good caffeine high while I was getting my hands dirty with some php. I must have stood up until about 4:30am the other night.

This is a new year, so I guess I should say something about it. Watch out..... I'm coming through. I guess that's all I had to say about the new year, lol. On to better things. I'm helping my step-son run his first "hello world" script, lol. That was fantastic. I bought him his first computer this Christmas. I'd been wanting to get him one earlier, but because he managed to get into trouble at home or school, it never quite seemed the right time.

He's been using computers at school and the library, and once in a while, his mom will let him use hers so he can go on myspace and other wastes of time, lol. I told him that I'd teach him to program php over the summer (teach a man to fish...).

I'm going to work on finishing up the style changer for e4e, and it will soon be ready to come out of beta.