February 2012
2 posts
5 tags
So you wanna use Windows...
Those who know me are aware of the fondness I have for working with Windows in particular in the context of development. Whatever I think, however, many people choose, or are obliged, to develop on the platform. Depending on your chosen development tools, this can be more or less straight forward. Consider this scenario: you’re a LAMP-stack developer (in this case, P is for Python)....
Feb 8th
4 tags
Testing Paypal with sandbox
I’ve been testing out django-paypal with a view to using it on a new site. I was always quite against using Paypal - the ‘image’ doesn’t seem right and there are horror stories about non-existent customer service when they decide to stop accepting payments for you at seemingly arbitrary moments. However, convenience wins sometimes, and the user experience (especially with...
Feb 2nd