Warehouse Built, Back in Marketing
Well after nearly 2 months out of Shanghai and living in a hotel, I am back.
Category Archives: Work
Whats a cooking?
Good question, two things really. One – the company I spend most of my time working for sprang back into profit in January which is fantastic considering how rough the seas are out there for exporters from China! Talking to some people it has come at just the right time as everyone is wondering either [...]
Live Website?
OK so the week has been and gone, and instead of getting two websites live we have only managed to get one ready and working. Learn masses about testing systems and how you need to be able to have a exact copy of the site somewhere else so that you can test before it goes [...]
Landmark
D-day is nearly upon me. The day when we finally move the companies website from our current 3rd party supplier (Channel Advisor) to our own OFBiz / Rackspace / Akamai website. While Channel Advisor’s website has done us good for the last 3+ years its time to move onwards and upwards with something, well customisable. [...]
Company Hires 101st person
Just a quick post to say that the company has now hired their 100 and 101st employee! Its almost 4 years to the day that we started too.
How a year in China changes everything
So this time last year I was planning on building a distributed IT system across many small offices with a maximum of 30 people in each. This year we are consolidated in one building on two different floors with all the servers in one room. Amazing change. But to be honest it does not really [...]
Distributed IT Network Backups?
I am currently building the foundation of my companies new IT network, its looking very open source heavy, very cisco based and also very distributed. Think five sites and only little old me to do most of the “heavy lifting”. I have a great second but sometimes we need time off – thats fine and [...]
OFBiz, PostgreSQL and a worldwide audience
So we were starting to talk to Netsuite about replacing our systems with theirs, I have to admit I do like the idea of one complete system from one person. It was just before they were going public so they wanted all the business they could muster and we had a “good” price until we [...]
eBay and VeRO
Over the last couple of weeks I have been deeply involved with something that eBay calls VeRO – bascially this is a way that eBay pushes the responsilbity of checking for fake, patent or trademark infringing goods back onto the owners of those trademarks. The rights owner simply sends in an email to VeRO and [...]