My name is Dave Koopman and this is my blog. I grew up in Southern California, surfed, played football, good at math and science. Graduated High School in St. Louis, went to college in Springfield, MO, for a BS Computer Science. Started a web site design company with my father and step-mother in 1997 called The Web Mark. We built an online directory of medical professionals in the Phoenix, Arizona area, and built over 100 web sites, many with custom applications like forums, shopping carts, and customer relationship management systems.
During the days of The Web Mark, met the love of my life, Britiany, in Rocky Point, Mexico. We were married in 2001, had our daughter, Makenna, in 2003, and our son Robert, in 2005. We enjoy riding bikes and boating at lakes nearby Phoenix, especially Bartlett. The kids are in karate at Goshin, because we love them SO much, and they learn life lessons at Goshin.
My dad died in 2002, cancer, and that’s when I went to work for Go Daddy. Started as a software developer in Email. In a team environment, built Web-Based Email and Online Group Calendar for the first 3 years. Then managed the dedicated hosting development team, systems architecture, managed mysql operations, email architecture, and most recently, chief technology officer. Working at Go Daddy has been absolutely amazing.
So, a lot of what’s in this blog is little tid-bits of information I like to save for myself, for later reference, mostly work related, or loosely related to work in some way. Most of the information in this blog is short how-to do something relating to installation or configuration of some linux web based application of sort.
So, there you have it, you know who I am. If you like something you read here, or don’t like something, tell me about it. Leave a comment. I’d very much enjoy hearing your thoughts.
Dave
Do you believe JOOMLA 1.5.7 or VM 1.2 is secure? Given all the hacking you had to do to secure your site, is it worth it to use JOOMLA/VM for ecommerce? Thanks.
To be honest with you, I couldn’t say. I feel I could reasonably secure the site, by separating the commerce from the display of the site. You certainly don’t want to store credit card information on the same server that’s serving up your web site. In fact, this would violate the terms of PCI, although many still do it. If you’re just getting started and don’t have the capital to setup a multi-tier ecommerce site, look into canned ecommerce solutions, like Yahoo store, eBay storefront, godaddy.com’s quick shopping cart, or just use the tools of PayPal to incorporate into your site. You can still have your Joomla web site to showcase your product line, but trust a bigger company with the transactions. That’s my two cents.
Dude,
What the hell has been up? How are things at GD? You should join my new site on ning.com. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Hit me back and lets catch up.
Chris
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