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Time To Toot My Magento Horn.

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Well I finally decided to post some work that I have been doing for a Vancouver based company STORMTECH.  A full scale customized muti-national deployment of Magento.

I learned Magento in and out for about 6 months straight, and well… Now our company is running smoother than ever on it.  It was a large project with close to 10 000 SKU’s.

Vancouver Magento Developer - Justin Frost

Above is the video intro page, I shot the segments on the 5d and cut them in Premiere Pro .

Vancouver Magento Developer - Justin Frost

Above is the Canadian Landng Page.

Vancouver Flash Catalogue Developer - Justin Frost

This is the flash catalogue conversion.

Now I can build E-commerce sites to showcase the cool stuff like video, photo, awesome graphic design..  A perfect environment to be familiar with for content publishing, it generates income!

At first I found magento very difficult to get used to, but with enough time it’s possible to pull massive projects off single handedly,  that would have taken a large team not too long ago..

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Canon 5d Mark II - Premier Pro CS4 1080p Workflow

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Well, I finally got my hands on one of these Canon 5D mark 2’s.  I’m using the camera strictly for video and it is working beautifully.  This clip shows what sort of “photographer inspired” imagery can be done with this thing.  There are many drawbacks to using this camera for video, but there are also amazing features like: interchangeable lenses, the full frame sensor, and extreme low light sensitivity!

Warning: Music is a bit of a downer.  Skip to the motorcycle video if you want something a little more “upbeat”.


Nostalgia (flare-free version) from Edgar Maguyon on Vimeo.

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RED - Still and Video Convergance

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

These days are opening new doors for photographers that are looking to expand into the cinema relm.  RED has been a huge influence on the high-end film community which has created a ripple through the video and photography world.

RED Camera Demo

RED Camera Demo

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Sync calenders - iCal, iPhone and Google calender..

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

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I needed to sync a team of PC’s and Mac’s and iPhone, Blackberry phones.  This was not fun, for a while I used basecamp to do this in a roundabout “4 years ago” kinda way…If you are a PC user, use the Google Calender CalDAV method so that you can deliver a shared and 2-way editable calender to both Mac and PC users without excuses..

-  Sync and post ical entries across multiple computers

- Syncs ical to iPhone

- Syncs to Blackberry

- Share to both Mac and PC calenders

- Free and Reliable

Well it look likes Google stepped up to the plate here.  Google Calender mixed with CalDAV is the answer.

I have found this combo more usable than any other free solution.  It can be totally web based, or native across a diverse range of both desktop and mobile platforms.

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Customize your desktop, new icons make it fresh

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

I am constantly looking for new ways to decrease how much thinking I have to do.

If you work in a crap environment how can you be expected to produce anything but crap?

I find that some of the most straining focus is caused by looking at long lists of folders that all look identical.

I am a huge fan of colour coding folders based on intensity.  I make the “hot” folders red, and the stable ones green and blue.  This way it’s possible to jump immediately to the most traveled folders on your system even if you’re blurry eye drunk.

But colour coding can only go so far.  I’m talking about changing the whole damn icon.. Create a theme of your operating system so that you don’t have to think where things go…

I used icons from the free section of “the iconfactory”, you should head over there and check out the great stuff they have there for new custom os x icons.

Once you download the icon packages, you can copy and paste them onto the default ones in the “Get Info” dialogue box [Commad + I].

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Design and publish Facebook widgets

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I tripped on this amazing site a while back that allows normal folk to design totally portable social networking widgets.   They can be published on several different social platforms [including Facebook] very easily.

Basically you sign up for the service and design your “Sprout”, use their “Sharing tools” or embed the code directly to your blog or facebook page, and thats it!  

The difference with Sproutbuilder is that these widgets actually look sharp!

Another amazing aspect of Sproutbuilder is that any update you make on the Sproutbuilder site will AUTOMATICALLY update all of your published widgets.. wherever they are!  There is no need to update them individually.

This is one of many web 3.0 [yep you heard it!] applications about to hit the market.  Click on the image below to see how strikingly similar to Flash and Photoshop the online interface is.

Although the widget is deployed as a .swf [flash] behind the scenes, the application is built with an Adobe technology called Flex.  Flex uses the Actionscript 3 language to build rich internet applications that can be ported to actual standalone applications [user can install direct on their computer and  run offline].  In addition, Adobe Labs has created “Adobe Air” to convert applications to installable stand alone programs.

Just to get a glimpse of where this is going, my 15 year old brother built this sprout without any help at all…


 

The ability is here!  The Flex framework is allowing developers to create amazingly portable applications in a fraction of the time it used to.

Now all you have to do is learn AS3 and cash in[:

Peace, 
Frost 

 

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