My thoughts, ramblings, and research.
by: Adam McCombs - Thursday, February 4th, 2010

In an effort to keep things organized I've decided to give a monthly recap of all my Project 52 posts. Here is a look at January 2010.
Post #1 - Developers: Don’t pigeonhole your clients
It’s incredibly easy for developers to get stuck in a development rut. Using the 
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by: Adam McCombs - Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Being the co-Author of "
The Definitive Guide to Magento", I get asked this question a lot. It's sometimes surprising that a piece of software, growing with popularity, is still unknown to so many people.
Magento Commerce is defiantly worth taking a look at.
So what is it?
Magento is a 
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by: Adam McCombs - Thursday, January 21st, 2010

This post is based on a couple of conversations I've had with designers and developers on Twitter but the ideas on this post can be applied to any [job] situation. Often times you'll hear people say, "I don't understand how to do that" or "That's to complicated" but what they 
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by: Adam McCombs - Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Project 52, or #p52 on Twitter, is a year long project devoted to developing blog content, at a pace of one new post a week for an entire year. I've found it rather hard to continually post new blog content so this type of project is right up my alley.
There 
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by: Adam McCombs - Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Pigeonhole - Pronunciation: \ˈpi-jən-ˌhōl\ - a neat category which usually fails to reflect actual complexities
It's incredibly easy for developers to get stuck in a development rut. Using the same tools, frameworks and platforms for every project is not only limiting your potential but it pigeonholes clients. Our job as developers 
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by: Adam McCombs - Friday, January 1st, 2010

My book The Definitive Guide to Magento, a book that I co-authored with Robert Banh, is now shipping! For those who may not know, Magento is a new open-source eCommerce platform that has grown in popularity over the last 2 years.
I've included a short description of the book below, ...