AHA! We’ve found the CSS bug that made the mobile-experience fail on the menu pulldown. All better now!

Tis the season to reap what we’ve sown, and in that spirit, here’s what we’ve been doing with our summer students this year, fulfilling the following tasks:

Incorporating Active-Tech Calgary Store Inventory

This has been a long-desired project coming to (partial) completion, bringing the inventory from our physical store Active Tech Calgary online. This has been a nebulous task, needing us to document every item carried in the store with photos, dimensions, and weights (generated by a previous summer-student project, the Raspberry-Pi powered “Camstation”).

We’ve been able to bring online the gist of the inventory usually available in-store via the “Item Availability” search feature on our website. Although some items can be purchased online and in-store, we are unable to bring every item online presently. There are literally a minimum of 14 parameters that have to be filled-in to bring a product online. While we prioritize this, we’re doing a blanket “Here’s what we have” update, so at least it’s indexed and searchable. This more than doubles the product listings online!

Website Refresh

We’ve refreshed our website installation, as our previous commercial web developers efforts did not give us optimal performance. That meant shifting some background infrastructure, but also let us start with a clean, quick database. The performance should be noticeable!

Left to do is bring in the support documentation (PDFs, support code, etc) to each product. If you need something sooner than later, email us and we’ll send it directly to you.

More background optimizations are in the works; stay tuned!