Ok, I am going to post this here so that I know where to find it the next time I desperately looking! I am developing for GAE on windows with eclipse and on windows the google launcher doesn’t have the nice option to delete the datastore before launch that it has on the Mac??!! […]
We have been slaving away in the cloud working on integrating paypal with a google app engine application for one our clients in Dublin. There really isn’t much information ‘out there’ on the subject of connecting to paypal from the GAE, so I have decided to write up some notes in the hope that they […]
There are a few reasons that could cause paypal to send back: FAIL ERROR: 4020 When you attempt to verify PDT transaction data by posting a _notify-synch command. However, in 9 times out of 10 the cause is due to the request containing an incorrect ‘at’ or authorisation token argument. The ‘authorisation […]
Software Engineering can be a bit challenging on the Google App Engine, and so I am always on the lookout for a helping hand! I came across this article on using reCaptcha on the Google App Engine using python: http://daily.profeth.de/2008/04/using-recaptcha-with-google-app-engine.html Just what I needed, a step by step guide!
Here is an interesting post about the 5 most interesting new features in wordpress 3.0: http://mashable.com/2010/05/10/new-features-wordpress-3/ It certainly seems to be going in the right direction – I will be interested to see what can be done with the new custom content types. This could lead to the use of wordpress for the development of […]
In this gloomy climate it’s great to see some good news – and the Irish Times reports here that Google has seen a sharp rise in its profits for the first quarter of this year – more evidence they say that the web advertising and technology sectors are bouncing back from the recession. It seems […]
There are some interesting aspects to doing Software Enginering from within the Google App Engine sandbox – I came across this interesting article on how to play with things so that you can make XML-RPC calls from within the google app engine sandbox. By default such calls will be blocked but the article shows who […]
Just came across a bit of a time-waster in the PHP SimpleXMLElement lib. Usually if you’re accessing an element called, say ‘username’ you use the follwoing syntax: [code] $username = $element->username; [/code] However if the element has a minus sign in its name, like ‘user-name’ you have to use the following syntax instead: [code] $username […]
Our web design partners at Pride Design have put Paula Rowan’s new website www.glovesbypaularowan.ie live, I worked very closely with Shane at Pride Design to bring the site to fruition and I am very happy with the outcome! Paula sells a (self designed) range of luxury gloves through her new website. The website is (once again) built on Drupal 6 with the eCommerece functionality provided […]
Q: Is it possible to use the ubercart Option Images module (uc_option_image) with a custom product display template, via Content Template (contemplate) or a custom node.tpl.php? A: Yes, you just need to manually call the attribute image into your template with a line of PHP code. The ubercart Option Images module (uc_option_image) is a […]