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Amazon jumping into the payment processing game

Submitted by mikehostetler on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 07:51

Amazon Web ServicesI received an email this morning from Amazon introducing their new Flexible Payment Service (FPS). FPS is described as a web service for accepting payments that developers may use, pushing the complicated pieces over onto the Amazon side.

Having dealt with online payment processing, I'd be very interested in something like this. The size & reputation of Amazon coupled with the technical capability to take the incredible pain out of payment processing will definitely be something to watch.

Reading through the developer documentation briefly, FPS also appears to contain features that might finally blow the lid off of micro-payments.

The email that landed in my inbox is the first mention of this I've heard. I expect to see a lot of buzz around this later on today.

The mind of a web developer

Submitted by mikehostetler on Thu, 08/02/2007 - 09:29

The mind of a web developer is something I often don't understand, even though you'd think I would. Mingle2, a dating blog (huh?) got it right though. Check out this image:

Keynav and Clipregion - Two new jQuery Plugins

Submitted by mikehostetler on Tue, 07/25/2006 - 07:20

Things have been pretty busy, but I've managed to crank out two new jQuery plugins.  They are currently sitting in a newly created project environment I am building for Qcodo called QForge.

Keynav - Keyboard Navigation Plugin for jQuery

Clipregion - jQuery Clipregion Plugin

QTabPanel - jQuery Tab Panel for QCodo

Submitted by mikehostetler on Mon, 06/26/2006 - 10:17

Another software release to announce today in response to this thread.  I haven't used this a whole lot yet, but a few weeks ago I whipped up a Tabbed Panel for Qcodo.  It uses the excellent jQuery javascript library and the jQuery Tabs Plugin.

See the attached file for the code and examples.

QDrupal - Drupal module with the Qcodo Framework

Submitted by mikehostetler on Mon, 06/12/2006 - 10:33

UPDATE

  • After some feedback, I've updated the version of QDrupal.  You can find it below.   

 

Over the last few months, I've become involved with the Qcodo and Drupal projects.  I use both projects and believe in both of them.  Because I love Drupal and Qcodo and want to use both, I've created a mashup of the two for use in my own projects.  I've shared this code with a few people and the response has been positive.  So, I've decided to release a preliminary version.  Eventually this code will live in the QForge.  When that happens, I'll update this post.

FireBug plans to add javascript debugging

Submitted by mikehostetler on Thu, 04/27/2006 - 09:37

FireBug plans to add javascript debuggingFireBug plans to add javascript debuggingHave I mentioned how much I love FireBug yet?  If you work with HTML, CSS or Javascript at all, it's a must-have Firefox extension.  The developer, Joe Hewitt, has taken many "best-of" extensions and combined them into one.  Now, as if that wasn't good enough, he's adding javascript debugging.  Goodbye Venkman, I won't miss you.

FeedLounge annouces BETA

Submitted by mikehostetler on Tue, 12/06/2005 - 09:06

Alex King's FeedLounge service announced it will enter public BETA on January 16, 2006! This is exciting news and I wish Alex and Scott the best.