If you don’t know, now you know:
https://stripe.com/
Stripe is, or rather states, that they do online processing for a flat fee and act as your gateway interfacing directly with your bank. AWESOME! I think Stripe is pretty new right now; and unfortunately I haven’t used them to know how great it really is. But, I’ve built enough online stores to know that online transactions are cumbersome. You can push for one gateway over the other but ultimately you’re going to deal with several over the course of your career.
PAYPAL!?
Ever tried using PayPal to accept money? Of course you have. Have you ever tried to build a store around PayPal? No, you haven’t. Because if you have then you’ve surely jumped off a cliff by now. I can’t seem to test in the developer sandbox of PayPal’s without having their service go down at least twice. Now the live gateway is reliable, but testing is a nightmare!
OTHER GATEWAYS
So there are a ton of other gateways. And I’ve used several in combination with dozens of merchants. I definitely favor some over others. And, I’m not trying to knock any one of them or say what anyone should or shouldn’t use. But, I do want to hear from people out there.
Have you used Stripe? If so, how was/is it. How good is it for larger scale store type systems? How do you handle refunds, escrow, or customer data? If you haven’t used Stripe do you think you would? I’m going to give it a try next chance I get. The fees are right and I’m excited for a service like this to be available and I think it’s a long time coming. Kudos.
This is an official release of a jQuery plugin I wrote some time ago and have been using and updating a lot lately. I’ve decided to release it here, and on jQuery, because I’ve finally got all of the bugs out and it has enough options and methods to work for any job. As devlopers we get a lot of requests for some image slideshow or content slideshow at the top of the homepage or some subsequent page. I’ve browsed jQuery’s image rotator options a dozen times and had a really hard time finding something that just worked. Lots of authors out there are creating plugins that are styled one way by default, come with too many requirements for the layout, or that just break; and so I’m throwing my hat into the ring. This plugin creates an image (or content) slideshow based on any nested element.
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I’ve been working at this office in Bakersfield for about 2 years now after my foray into the freelance world which I did also for 2 years. And while I still freelance on the side it’s nice to work with a team of people I see everyday. It also provides me the opportunity to start taking more time out and writing about the work I do and things I love. Recently at the office I built our towns first mobile app. It is geared primarily for the iPhone although I’ve heard rumor it runs pretty well on Android as well. In building this mobile app I ran into a lot of hardships and created quite a few workarounds to problems that may have been easier to fix than I made them. However, it was a learning process as it was my first mobile app and it turned out to be a pretty awesome one at that!
IN THE BEGINNING
Let me start by listing the frameworks I tried:
jQuery Mobile
jQTouch
Sencha Touch
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