As some of you might now I did an internship in Japan between July 1st and September 30st. I did it at a company called D&M Pearl which is located close to Shinjuku. It was a great time there. But what did I do in those three months you wonder? Specially because it is a pearl company you might wonder, what I could do there as a programmer. Well let me help you. I created a webshop for them. The shop is called pearls4girls. My internship ended at the end of September and I joined a new company called tonchidot in Shinjuku where I do Android programming.

Since I started working at the new company we finished the webshop and are ready to launch it! Feel free to check out the webshop located at http://pearls4girls.jp. And if you find something nice for your wife or girlfriend, don't hesitate to buy it :).

Well some more technical info what I did for the webshop. I created the webshop using the community edition of Magento. It offers a great variety of features. I removed some of the features we didn't need and added some features we did need like delivery date and time. There are a lot of modules for Magento. Some I could use, but for delivery date and time I had to do some more programming. Creating modules for Magento is kind of difficult. But after you learn how it works, it is actually pretty nice. But I still don't know everything in Magento. What I really liked in Magento is the way you can design the website. It works with layouts and templates. Layouts are XML files that define what is shown on which page. Which boxes appear where and when. It is really flexible. And in the templates .phtml files you create the actual html design which can include php. And you can easily switch between different design. And that even in the same store! It is pretty nice. Even though we only created one design for our webshop.