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By: Paul Callaghan

Paul Callaghan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:44:39 +0000

Plus, you’ve got one of the Spree gurus just a few miles down the road if you want detailed, hands on info! I wanted to come to the last super mondays event but got marooned in Cardiff…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:04:55 +0000

Hi Sean, thanks for the link. We’ll have to check it out.

We’re always looking into new things and I’ve been trying to find the time to do some Ruby on Rails development as it’s something that really interests me. I like the whole philosophy of “Don’t repeat yourself”

Chris

By: Sean Schofield

Sean Schofield — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:09:36 +0000

If you change your mind about Ruby on Rails you should look into Spree (http://spreecommerce.com.) It was designed to be more extensible then traditional OS offerings and it has a very helpful and active community supporting it.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:59:33 +0000

Hi Gavin,
We’re not building the system from scratch but using our in-house software which we’ve been building up over the past 4 years. We’ve got this system running on numerous sites so we’re confident it’s going to be up to the job and most importantly bug free (or as close to).

We’ll be keeping everyone up to date with time scales, to see how it compares to integrating an existing open source system.

Part of this experiment is to share our mistakes so if we do feel it was a bad decision we’ll be the first to say.

Thanks for the feedback!

By: Gavin

Gavin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:48:57 +0000

Wow, hard to believe that anyone would build an ecommerce system from scratch these days. That is quite an investment you are making.

FWIW, I posted some notes on the decision process I went through a few years ago before settling on Shopify: http://www.gavin.terrill.com/shopify.html.

I’d be interested in hearing what your estimates were on building, versus learning an existing battle hardened system.

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