“Software is still a young endeavor. At the birth of agriculture the excitement must have been similar, with the same sense of enormous potential.”—Joe Berkovitz Adobe – Flex Developer Center I agree with people who say “code is poetry” to illustrate the fact that there are elegant ways of proving software solutions to problems. I’m… Continue reading Is ploughing like software development?
Episerver and Page Languages
We’ve been doing some work recently using EpiServer, extending it to fit our needs, to support our new website look which is one of many new features coming soon. Having website content in more than one language reflects the international coverage that Esendex has. We ran into a bug today which initially wasn’t easy to… Continue reading Episerver and Page Languages
A little SugarOS on your Plesk?
There are many quirks which are picked up by using a website management package like Plesk. My remote Linux server has this installed by default on it, and it does simplify a lot of basic operations. It does become difficult when standard Linux / Apache information doesn’t help because Plesk rearranges things into its own… Continue reading A little SugarOS on your Plesk?
Stored procedure error handling in SQL Server 2000
Today, we’re continuing work on our multipart message aggregation upgrade for a future Esendex release. One part of the investigations this morning has been looking into how we manage the database access as we add parts of an incoming message to it for later processing. As we have multiple servers processing inbound messages, there was… Continue reading Stored procedure error handling in SQL Server 2000
Of spam and things…
It’s been a few times this last year that I’ve been the victim of a domain spam attack. Sending email appearing to be someone else isn’t a difficult thing to achieve. Yet when someone takes one of your domains and sends spam, well I was going to say on my behalf but I never asked… Continue reading Of spam and things…
Checking it out
I have a feeling that a lot of small to medium development operations will still be using Microsoft‘s Visual SourceSafe to manage their central code-base despite its limitations. Given that Microsoft have since addressed this hole in their development offerings with the excellent Team Foundation Server which offers a seamless experience within Visual Studio 2005… Continue reading Checking it out
Have you got the Bug?
Being involved in web development work, I have to have a wide range of browsers installed to make sure what I’m creating is accessible to as many people as possible. Whilst I still have a soft-spot for Opera, it is without a doubt that Firefox is the Swiss Army Knife of all browsers. The ability… Continue reading Have you got the Bug?
Credit card regular expressions
Following on from my previous post about credit card authentication with regular expressions, I thought I’d share my other discovery. The BIN Ranges list I found showed a list of Visa cards which were designated ‘ATMOnly. Figuring these would be a good thing to filter out during validation. There’s plenty of regular expression help about… Continue reading Credit card regular expressions
Maestro, music please
We’ve been working on a change request to add Maestro to the credit cards that we accept for ecommerce payments. Switch started in 1988 but has now merged with the Maestro network owned by MasterCard in the UK. Until recently, if you took Switch payments then UK customers who had new Maestro cards would still… Continue reading Maestro, music please
Credit card validation
I’ve had my first delve into card processing and some of the simple techniques that you can use to validate a card before submitting details to a bank / online card processing service.