Adam Liberman is the man! That’s all I have to say! He really is. I came across today the Quickbooks plugin for Zen Cart that he is the author of and I must say that I am impressed. And as an open source advocate I am also so proud. It’s great to see great things built in the open source world and this is one of them. A little while back I wrote a post titled Zen Cart + Sugar CRM + Quickbooks = Heaven! where I wrote about how great it would be to have plugins that had all 3 applications speak to each other. So many companies would benefit from this. I received a comment shortly after writing the article from a guy named Adam who claimed to already be using a Quickbooks plugin for Zen Cart. So it inspired me to go out and find this [...]

Zen Cart, the open source shopping cart of choice is a fantastic tool for businesses who need a shopping cart online. A coworker of mine, Dave Whitlark, showed me today the Image Handler 2 module for Zen Cart. This is a fantastic tool that I recommend to all users of Zen Cart. Here are some of it’s features as mentioned by the modules page on zencart.org;
Improved site performance (faster loading, faster display)
* Professional looking images (no stair-effects, smooth edges)
* Uploading one image automatically creates small, medium and large images on page request.
* Choose preferred image-types for each image size.
* Source image filetype doesn’t matter. Have jpg base files with gif and png additional files if you want to.
* Drops in and out seamlessly. No need to redo your images. All images are kept.
* Easy install. One-click-database-upgrade.
* Works with mass-update/-upload tools like EzPopulate.
* Watermark images to prevent Mr. Competitor from stealing [...]