Pocket Revolutionary

There’s a new project on “the Forge” that’s connecting Magento and TYPO3, and you can see their progress here. I’m pretty excited, and it looks like we will probably end up switching to Magento in the future for the ministry. Now that they have “virtual products” working, I’m sure I’ll be able to get donations and downloads (our two highest priorities). I’ve spent the past couple weeks learning how to make better forms and checkout processes, and I’ve been slowly working on a new donation form for our FishCart installation that will use dojo library for validation and accordion-style layout collapsing (is that how you say it?). Anyway, this looks like good news for the TYPO3 sites out there that really have been wanting a good, powerful integrated store.

photograph by Mikhail Evstafiev

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn died at the age of 89 from heart failure. He was in work camps, sentenced to a life of exile, had cancer, lived in hiding, got a Nobel Prize, spent two decades in the West, returned to Russia, and didn’t die until the age of 89. I wonder if he ever imagined that he would even live to see the outside world or his 40th birthday when he was in the work camps. I remember reading Gulag Archipelago the first time in high school…  I had to put it down halfway through for three years before finally finishing it. I wish I could say that I’ll be able to buy and read the thirty-volume edition of his collected works, but I’ll just say that he was a great writer and he’ll be missed.