If you’ve reviewed the API’s of different payment processors, you’ve seen that they’re fairly standard, but with lots of little differences. All in all, they’re well formed, easy enough to work with – but some of them are a little dated in their approach. Sometimes, you have to deal with one web service for processing … Continue reading
Category Archives: Technology
On Microsoft, HTML5, and Silverlight
I don’ t want to get in to the big picture “Adobe vs. HTML5 vs. Silverlight” discussion, I think its been done well elsewhere. However, if Mary Jo is right in her recent article about Microsoft’s intentions, I’m a little worried: “Silverlight is our development platform for Windows Phone,” he said. Silverlight also has some … Continue reading
Browser Poll
Over on LinkedIn, I’m doing a quick poll of who uses what Browser. Right now, with 12 responses, its evenly split between two browsers. However, you might not guess which two! Check it out, and put your own vote in. Continue reading
Windows Phone 7
I checked out the Windows Phone 7 tools tonight, and I’m very happy with the current release. Visual Studio Express is one fantastic product, and Silverlight 4 is very nice. In about an hour (or two) I had a basic app going. Hit F5, and up it comes in an emulator. I’m toying around with … Continue reading
Sometimes it is the easy things…
When adding a new reference to a well known payment gateway’s web services WSDL URL, I was confused tonight when I kept getting the following error over and over: Could not find endpoint element with name “PaymentGateway” and contract “PaymentGateway.ContractName” in the ServiceModel client configuration section. This might be because no configuration file was found … Continue reading
Great site on SQL!
This guy should be required reading for anyone coding against an RDBMS. http://www.sommarskog.se Continue reading
nServiceBus
So, now that I have a firm grasp of what’s good and bad about WCF -> MSMQ, I’m going to take the evening out to review nServciceBus. It’s website isn’t down, and I have a pot of tea and a stack of old CD’s, so lets see how much I can figure out. The inherent pub/sub async … Continue reading
How To: MSMQ + Encryption + WCF – ActiveDirectory
http://www.controlsystemworks.com/articles/CertificateSecurityForWcfOverMsmq.html It works! Also a special thanks to Yaron Naveh’s blog entry here. Continue reading
A love song for C#
I found the following conversation online today. For non-technical readers, it boils down to something like this: c# guy: “Hey, here’s a simple way to do something that is sometimes a gotcha.” Pierre, confused c++ reader: “That can never work! While the code you wrote looks nice and simple, it actually has lots of hidden … Continue reading
Nexus One
First of all, from what I’ve heard from my international West Coast super secret technology spies, the Nexus One is very cool. Fast processor, great OS, shiny, tiny all that great stuff. I do want one, and though I’m miffed that it won’t work with Rogers 3G network here in the frozen North, if they … Continue reading
Kyle Hodgson 