Michael Kimsal (and his bother Mark) were talking about the state of ecommerce applications, specifically about the latest "hot topic" software - Magento.

My brother Mark has been doing a long term project based on Magento doing a lot of custom work on top of it, and has told me many points, both good and bad, about it.

According to Michael and Mark, speed of the application is a big hindrance. They also mention two points that could help make an ecommerce system so much easier to integrate into the "blogosphere" - publishing a blog feed of some of the user feedback about orders/products/etc and accept trackbacks from an external blog post reviewing the products.

On The Bakery (Everything CakePHP) blog today Tulio Faria shares some ways to organize your CSS files to where they can be autoloaded through your CakePHP application.

There's five different ideas that he presents:

• CSS files named without any link with controller names
• CSS with the same controller name
• CSS file with the same name of controller, but only if CSS file exists
• one CSS file for each method of controller
• a CSS file for each method of controller, a little bit more organized

each with their own code and explanation. Tulio also notes quickly that he prefers the last one, keeping things a bit cleaner and more organized.