Ah the wife... lovely in all her glory no worries there. However she already knows she can horrible at best so by all means, I'm not touched a single bit if she reads the lines above lolll I've made her understand the reasoning behind getting an Open Source eCommerce platform put together i.e. the (cheapest) quote we got last November for the work to be outsourced professionally was $US32,000. I mean the full pkg. Something we, as a start-up, can't afford at the moment.
Like I said, its all good fun (Magento-wise anyway). Quite enjoying myself with the platform. In fact it is absolutely beautiful and does exactly what we want it to do. What's frustrating (x100) is the steep learning curve involved, adapting to changes, and the numbers of hours that goes wasted in research alone to name a few. Not a pro at this and when it comes to advanced coding languages... well... I'm not shy to say that I am not the fastest learner. Things have changed a lot since the days I was involved (mid-late 90's, dot.com era).
You've gone EE, good on ya. We are investigating the possibility also here. In fact we are actually in contact with a partner who is prepping an action plan for us. Our main concern is online security but thank god somehow because when you compare Magento 2.0 to all the other available platforms today (paid or not), Magento "alone" is the most secured one and is backed-up with a pretty solid team of security professionals already. Those are not my words btw, was told by various security professionals recently.
So you see, 3 full days, overtime or not, it will pay off at the end and we'll end up winners. You and I both (Go Go Magento!)
RE Mirasvit; the guy is a legend. He has good taste in everything he does. His code is clean and organized, frontend-wise he pads his stuff like nobody else (its balanced, proportioned, clean). Prices are also reasonable given the functions he can enable your store with. If you ask me, he is the best around (trust me I've tried a few already). And as you've pointed out, he does indeed quickly revise his code and adapt his stuff to the customer exact needs. Dare anyone to find better!
Also, from the 5 or 6 other Magento extension developers we've had to deal with recently, he is the only one who didn't ask for admin SSH access nor FTP to our server. Dunno about you but as soon as we get this (weird) request we literally ditch the developer and blacklist him/here here (nearly wasted $800 so far in extension testing). Policy here is; if it doesn't wok as per-instructions or advertised, we simply ditch the product and move on.
So far... only Mirasvit.com stuff works for us - for Magento 2.0 anyway. Go figure
Lots of rumbling here sorry. Going for coffee break in a minute. That will help I'm sure lolll
ps: sending you a pm of our store when its online and working (still testing hard now). A lot of work to be done. As you probably know already haha
