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About This Site

This site is the product of hundreds (thousands?) of hours hacking Zen Cart since early 2003. Along the way, it became apparent that Zen Cart needed a tool for adding & managing products other than via the web interface. Such a tool already existed and was already ported across from osCommerce - Easy Populate. However, this was extremely error prone, often resulting in errors with no apparent reason and with little to troubleshoot with.

And so it began... Sometime around the middle of 2005 I began hacking Easy Populate and made the results of these labours freely available to the Zen Cart community, as well as my many hours of support. It became apparent to me at that time that Easy Populate needed to pay its way if it were to survive as a project, as I could not justify the tremendous amount of time to develop & support this much needed tool.

The Mod Hole... I kicked off the supported development effort with a new site - Langer's Modhole ("langer" is my Zen Cart forum handle), which also featured numerous other contributions of mine, and still others that I had hacked to either improve or to make work again. There was just enough interest & support from donors to encourage me to continue developing Easy Populate Advanced, leading finally to the release of version 3.0 on 7th August, 2006.

Of the future... My experience with Easy Populate Advanced has shown me that the best method for delivering good quality reliable Zen Cart modules, as well as the inevitable ongoing development (after all, Zen Cart is evolving..) and support is to offer them for purchase by suitably committed business owners. Moving forward, it is my intention to continually add value to the Zen Cart community of users & developers by providing a source of affordable & reliable modules & services that are supported both now & into the future.

About Me

My name is Nicholas Keown, and I live in Sydney, Australia. I am the proud father of 2 boys (one aged 7, the other 4 months) and measure my life's success by their happiness.