GPG is great software for manually encrypting data using the OpenPGP standard – good encryption tools are more and more becoming essential to software development. However using GPG from a script sometimes presents problems. Why would you want to GPG from a script? Well you might want to encrypt a backup from within your […]
Here is an interesting article about the relative strengths of the most popular CMS systems out there: http://www.dss-int.com/articles/2010/10/15/the-cms-tug-of-war-wordpress-vs-drupal-vs-joomla/ As regular readers will know drupal is my tool of choice for most of my web development work although I have put many a website together with wordpress too and I really like it. I […]
Is DeadlineExceededError a thing of the past? The new version (1.4.0) of the google app engine was announced yesterday, details can be found here: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/ There are some interesting changes and additions, however the one change that really caught my attention is that the time limit for tasks has been increased from […]
Software Developers know their away around SQL – it is a tool of the trade (as it were!), however today I had to revert to google to find the SQL to swap the values of 2 columns within a table. Luckily I found this interesting (and very handy) article that explains just how to do […]
Yesterday I was doing some web and eCommerce development for a client in Kildare, I was working to link Expression Engine and FoxEE up to foxycart. When testing transactions everything seemed to work ok, except that after very transaction I received the following error: [code] DataFeed Failed: (2134029) 2010-09-30 05:50:28 No data returned for […]
I very much enjoyed the GTUG Dublin meeting last night at Google HQ in Dublin. There were very interesting speakers and a nice pint was had afterwards in the schoolhouse! It was nice to meet everybody and have a good chin-wag. I have uploaded the slides to my talk on integrating paypal and the […]
Our favourite foody-friends, Cully and Sully have recently launched Chef Factor – a cookery competition for all of you budding Chefs out there. The top prize is 12 week cookery course in Ballymaloe worth €12,000! For more details see the Chef Factor site: http://www.cheffactor.ie/ We had great fun helping our web design partners […]
Hi, just a note to let you know that I will be giving a talk at the next Dublin Google Technology User Group (GTUG) meeting on how to go about hooking up Paypal payments to the Google App Engine (GAE). The meeting will be held next Tuesday the 28th at 6:30pm. So if you […]
For those Software Engineers and developers out there who are thinking of striking it out on their own, the IEEE Computer Society have posted this article with 10 handy tips on how to hack it as a Software Consultant. Looks like I’ve got a bit of brushing-up to do! Although I don’t agree that […]
Q: I want so setup my Paypal business account to accept credit card transactions and not just paypal payments, but my customers are not offered the ‘pay by credit card’ option and when I look for the “Paypal Account Optional” setting in Profile / Website Payments Preferences I can’t find it! What do I do? […]