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      <p>This week on Beyond Blocks, I'mj oined by Ryan Szrama, CEO of Centarro, to discuss Drupal Commerce, Commerce Kickstart, Mario Kart and the dreaded <code>cache_form</code> table.</p>

      <p><a href="/podcast/13-ryan-szrama-centarro">Listen to the episode now</a>.</p>

      <h2 id="key-points">Key points</h2>

      <ul>
      <li>eCommerce, Ubercart and Drupal Commerce.</li>
      <li>How Commerce Guys started.</li>
      <li>How Ryan started in the eCommerce space.</li>
      <li>The origins of Drupal Commerce and Commerce Guys.</li>
      <li>Commerce Kickstart.</li>
      </ul>

      <h2 id="quotes">Quotes</h2>

      <ul>
      <li>The best code isn't the most novel or most compact, it's the most easily readable and easily extendable (RS).</li>
      <li>My only resource for learning PHP was php.net (RS)</li>
      <li>I'm a self-taught Developer or community-taught, I suppose (OD).</li>
      <li>Porting osCommerce into Drupal, which became Ubercart (RS).</li>
      <li>Do we do this in Ubercart and Drupal 6 that we know works, or this new thing that was Drupal Commerce in Drupal 7 (OD).</li>
      <li>It was built in Ubercart and was in production until quite recently, considering we're in 2024 (OD).</li>
      <li>Once you get thoroughly entrenched in a platform, the cost to re-platform outweighs the cost of maintaining it in-house (RS).</li>
      <li>If there's 10,000 of anybody, they're going to want to pay for support (RS).</li>
      <li>How do we convince them to invest in an upgrade that doesn't see them jettison Drupal entirely? (RS)</li>
      <li>One thing I like about Drupal Commerce is its flexibility. (OD)</li>
      <li>It doesn't need to be a t-shirt or book shop. You can do some outside the box things with it. (OD)</li>
      <li>Being a native extension of Drupal has a lot more advantages and pros than cons. (RS)</li>
      <li>Ubercart was more "batteries included" and "this is what it does", whereas Drupal Commerce is more flexible and although it requires a bit more setup to begin with, you can plug it together the way you want to. (OD)</li>
      <li>Our vision was to go the next step of getting off the Drupal island. (RS)</li>
      <li>The Commerce Addressing library is now over 17,000,000 downloads. (OD)</li>
      <li>Composer allowed us to separate our projects and separate our concerns. (RS)</li>
      <li>Do you know when you should not use Views and when you decouple that component and use JavaScript and the REST API? (RS)</li>
      <li>If we can reduce the number of times introduce those kinds of problems, that's how I would certify somebody. (RS)</li>
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      <p>This week on Beyond Blocks, I'mj oined by Ryan Szrama, CEO of Centarro, to discuss Drupal Commerce, Commerce Kickstart, Mario Kart and the dreaded <code>cache_form</code> table.</p>

      <p><a href="/podcast/13-ryan-szrama-centarro">Listen to the episode now</a>.</p>

      <h2 id="key-points">Key points</h2>

      <ul>
      <li>eCommerce, Ubercart and Drupal Commerce.</li>
      <li>How Commerce Guys started.</li>
      <li>How Ryan started in the eCommerce space.</li>
      <li>The origins of Drupal Commerce and Commerce Guys.</li>
      <li>Commerce Kickstart.</li>
      </ul>

      <h2 id="quotes">Quotes</h2>

      <ul>
      <li>The best code isn't the most novel or most compact, it's the most easily readable and easily extendable (RS).</li>
      <li>My only resource for learning PHP was php.net (RS)</li>
      <li>I'm a self-taught Developer or community-taught, I suppose (OD).</li>
      <li>Porting osCommerce into Drupal, which became Ubercart (RS).</li>
      <li>Do we do this in Ubercart and Drupal 6 that we know works, or this new thing that was Drupal Commerce in Drupal 7 (OD).</li>
      <li>It was built in Ubercart and was in production until quite recently, considering we're in 2024 (OD).</li>
      <li>Once you get thoroughly entrenched in a platform, the cost to re-platform outweighs the cost of maintaining it in-house (RS).</li>
      <li>If there's 10,000 of anybody, they're going to want to pay for support (RS).</li>
      <li>How do we convince them to invest in an upgrade that doesn't see them jettison Drupal entirely? (RS)</li>
      <li>One thing I like about Drupal Commerce is its flexibility. (OD)</li>
      <li>It doesn't need to be a t-shirt or book shop. You can do some outside the box things with it. (OD)</li>
      <li>Being a native extension of Drupal has a lot more advantages and pros than cons. (RS)</li>
      <li>Ubercart was more "batteries included" and "this is what it does", whereas Drupal Commerce is more flexible and although it requires a bit more setup to begin with, you can plug it together the way you want to. (OD)</li>
      <li>Our vision was to go the next step of getting off the Drupal island. (RS)</li>
      <li>The Commerce Addressing library is now over 17,000,000 downloads. (OD)</li>
      <li>Composer allowed us to separate our projects and separate our concerns. (RS)</li>
      <li>Do you know when you should not use Views and when you decouple that component and use JavaScript and the REST API? (RS)</li>
      <li>If we can reduce the number of times introduce those kinds of problems, that's how I would certify somebody. (RS)</li>
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