Saturday, May 17, 2008

Subtle difference in ZenCart and Cre Loaded

Oscommerce has two branches, the spiritually inclined Zen-Cart and commercially inclined Cre-Loaded.

Both use same codebase as osc and have a rich set of features. Cre has more intitutive and better looking admin as compared to zen cart and understandably so as CRE has a company behind it.

Altough both have pretty similar basic features there is a subtle difference in the way they treat categories/products.

In Zen-Cart I can disable the whole category and all subcategories/products inside it will get disabled, but it is not possible in cre-loaded. Cre does not support disabling the whole category as such though one can disable individual products.

But there is a flip side to it, in Zen-Cart, one cannot have both product and subcategory within a category, cre on other hand does not have such issue.

For my case I will go with Zen-Cart as disabling the whole category is quite an essential feature.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Magazine Circulation in India

Around 3,500 magazines are in circulation in India.

Source: Namaste London
The scene where Akshay Kumar give a patriotic speech to a firang on Indian Culture. He says 3.5k magazines are circulated in India.

Now how credible is that

Friday, March 14, 2008

Advance Tax

Payment Dates for Advance Tax:

14th September
14th December
14th March

Now what exactly is advance tax.

As the name suggests Advance Tax is basically the tax you pay in advance on the basis of your assessed income. For example I expect to earn 10 lakh in current financial year then I pay tax on this estimated income.

I can pay it on either of 3 dates.

Just wondering why do we need something like advance tax.