3 reasons to choose a consultant

Experience

When you start a new line of business or approach a new market you can use consultantcy services.
Starting an eCommerce business without online experience is a process. You can discover and face problems and issues, solve them and gain experience or you can have a guided tour and avoid most problems and focus on better marketing, customer relashions and so on. Using a consultant helps in this process.

Neutrality

A consultant will give you the right solution for you without selling software, specific products and so on. Based on this he can provide his services. It's in your best interest. He gets paid for giving you the right advice.

Ease
You need to make changes that affect your company personnel and you don't want to be the bearer of bad news?
A consultant can take the blame and do that for you. He does not need to stay afterwards and face the employees. Btw, see Up in the air

osCommerce - default language issues

Recently an online shop using osCommerce 2.2 faced a problem:
Default language displayed was english even though in setup I used Romanian...

It seems that osCommerce checks browser language and displays that as default language. On way to solve this is:

if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']) && tep_not_null($HTTP_GET_VARS['language'])) {
      $lng->set_language($HTTP_GET_VARS['language']);
    } else {
      $lng->get_browser_language();
    }

Comment the line of code

//$lng->get_browser_language();

And you should have this solved.

Gettin' back

It's been a while since I've written at least weekly on this, but I am getting back.

Mainly because I have to write more on my Romanian blog.
Anyway, I'm getting back on writing on this blog, so there will be 3 main categories with information I like to share:

Web Development
General information, mostly PHP, web frameworks like CakePHP and Zend Framework, issues I face, tutorials  

eCommerce
Technical articles about platforms like osCommerce,  Magento, Prestashop.

ERP Consultancy
Lately I've been involved in some projects regarding the process of choosing and ERP, implementing an ERP system, business analysis and so on. So I will share this with you.

I will also post personal stuff, so please bear me.
Any feedback is welcome.