So, you're wondering "How to add 300,000-plus products easily?" Wandering around the Virtuemart forum, considering which ecommerce option I ought to use for an upcoming ecommerce web development project, I search for threads that shed light upon the status and direction of the open source project while simultaneously searching for threads I can contribute my experience toward assisting some one else. I consider it the least I can do for a project that has made my clients millions through the years. And I enjoy helping. But when I saw the reference to easy mated with the task of populating a website with 300,000-plus products, there was something there worth investigating.

I've been slammed with the demand for skills that span the gamut. I love it. Not so much on the web end or social media end, since that's unfortunately taken a back seat to developing media and marketing infrastructure but also extended into business strategy and implementing practices and associated business software applications.

It seems as if every time an industry convention or some business mixer emerges, my calendar shuns the event and any hope of mixing it up with forum friends and community colleagues. And when it comes to this year's inaugural Open Camp, which takes place this August 27-29 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Addison, Texas, there is no exception, as it conflicts with one of my favorite stateside desert off-road races, the 2010 Best In The Desert (BITD) Vegas To Reno on August 19-21.

I dabble in Drupal. I work with Wordpress. But I'm always jamming with Joomla. The CMS framework is ultra extensible and includes numerous native Joomla extensions and a multitude of others that form a bridge to other popular software applications. Moodle, phpBB, Wordpress, SMF, OpenX are just a few hot scripts you may have your way with when working with Joomla. Well, here are some of the hottest Joomla extensions I happened upon during this morning's work with my favorite content management system.

Shred or die. Skate or die. I remember the days roaming the San Gabriel Valley in the back of Chris Sanchez' pickup truck and hunting down the sweetest skate spots of the SoCal skate scene. It was grungy. It was on the fly. And it was no big time action sports marketing venue in the making. The average day of the SGV skater was not web casted onto YouTube. And it wasn't promoted by the X-Games might. It was raw and in the flesh. Wounds ran deep. Broken bones snapped to attention like the hard core scene that it was.

This guys are working hard to become the kings of Joomla admin extensions. They make Joomla website usability user friendly and make for fast action publishing. Their business model works for cheapskates and big buck pros alike. Perhaps my favorite free Joomla extension of the lot is the Cache Cleaner. But when you've got nothing better to do in life, you'll want to the not-yet famous What? Nothing! Joomla Plugin - engineered for those who want your website to do absolutely NOTHING!

I had mentioned I squeezed the trigger on a Gallery2 open source photo gallery install. Installing Gallery2 was quite simple. Though, integrating Gallery2 into the Joomla CMS was a bit more difficult but not like pulling teeth on a angry bear. I used the JFusion bridge component.

Numbed with the effects of a novocain-like spell. It must've been the easy-to-use user interface or perhaps the intuitive administrator interface. Maybe it was the search engine optimized capabilities or maybe even its overall extensibility.

It's late. It's me. And I'm tired. I have another site that generally serves to host all my off-road racing photos. It used to turn a profit on them and retail e-commerce sales. That is why I was long deserting the idea of hosting a photo gallery here. Why do so when the photos were contributing to my bottom line and double up on the work for nothing.

I rarely donate any time to my personal websites. I am not one who has been too zealous on self promotion. I don't promote many of the projects I have worked on or am actively working on and don't Tweet too many of my own blog posts. I'm trying to break the mold but still haven't gone full bore on the endeavor. This could change. One sign is that after the late evening's work, which consisted of strategizing a marketing effort and weighing its web presence against available search engine trends, I scrolled over the various Google Analytics accounts and landed onto the DIRT FORGE.com search engine analytics report.