Hi Folks - we're starting development around March 1st on the GCN commerce Module. This will allow full blown commerce and ship tracking capability within GCN I have about 5 people tentative right now - I'm looking for 2-3 program managers on the different
units 1. Storefront 2. SSL Switching 3. Cart 4. ShipTracking 5. Payment Gateway I've talked with tim from
Codesine and he's agreed to add support for his gateway and ship tracking components to "snap-in"
I would be happy to implement the SSL Switching and work on the cart/store front. When you use the term "cart" I understand that to be the mechanism that holds a users items and the storefront is the part that allows the user to see items that may be added
to their cart. Is the possibility of wish lists and gift registrys on the radar screen? Experience I bring to the table for implementing these items is from the various community sites I am running in production today using CSK 1.1. Let me know, Brent brentferree
at hotmail.com
OK I got a couple of people - I was thinking big picture - and things like wish lists, straight donations, etc. - gift registries A little bit of CRM Our friend Tim from CodeSine.com agreed to let us design "Snap-in" GateWay and ShipTrack interfaces, and he'll
host them, and his components can snap-in out of the box. I want to make it very easy to change the functionality via skins - i.e. you could declaritively setup and customize a wider array of StoreFront types, Cart Types, Ship Track, CRM But the MAIN problem
is thus: the CSK/GCN just isn't built to easily add modules on the fly like you can with DNN But then look at Forum II application - I built a framework on it from ground up Check out the DataProvider project, and the abstract class in the Forum Component
project - goes to show that it's very easy to snap in providers like this We want to do the same things with Cart Components, Reporting components, Whatever the goal is to support more skinning (EVEN in Admin sections) and "snap-in" capabilities by using abstract
classes. We're ready to go in 3 weeks, I'm actually training someone right now on GCN just for this, I know 3 other people that are very good and interested, what if we actually had 10? Is that possible this day and age? Why not? The new techology is there
for us in Forum II application - follow the design patterns and make an even more scalable and expandable CSK
I agree with using abstract classes and having the ability to dynamically add/load modules. I have not used DNN but if we could just drop a new module in the form of a DLL in to the bin and then be able to consume it and add it to the system in the admin without
any other back end work that would be fabulous.
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