It's time for another Magento interview! This time we have the honor to learn more about Brent Peterson.
Brent lives and works in Minneapolis, USA and works as a Software Developer at Wagento Data Consulting LLC. You can connect with him on Skype (creativedata) and of course on the Magento forum as Brent W Peterson where he is one of the moderators.
Becoming a Pianist.
Pray without ceasing
Lots and lots of coding and lots of fires to put out.
Nice movie with my wife
Solving database problems
Navigating on a Mac (j.k.)
My Kids
I started working with it because the company I work for wanted to use it
I love the software and the open source community that is involved with it
Don't be afraid of asking alot of questions and backup often.
CMS searching and indexingLight Admin order taking
And what feature would you really like to see removed? Poll
My FAQ module
CMS
...allows for a wide base of support and input to create a dynamic product. Thanks Brent for your cooperation! Next time I'll interview Rhonda Rondeau, Magento Inc. Community Manager. If you want to stay up-to-date, you can subscribe to the RSS feed, the Newsletter or my Facebook page.
Most of my content is published on LinkedIn, so make sure to follow me there!
Recently I've seen some (often absolute) statements going around, generally in the line of "open source commerce platforms are a terrible idea". Now of course different solutions always have different pros and cons.
A hierarchy of evidence (or levels of evidence) is a heuristic used to rank the relative strength of results obtained from scientific research. I've created a version of this chart/pyramid applied to CRO which you can see below. It contains the options we have as optimizers and tools and methods we often use to gather data.