Rule Breakers in the credit card processing industry

“The credit card processing industry is notorious for extreme complexity, hidden fees, unsavory providers, and generally considered by many to be one of the most painful parts of running a business, and rightfully so. Buying credit card processing is like getting your car repaired in that consumers usually do not know enough about what they’re buying to ensure that they’re being treated fairly.” [More]

Simple Pay/Simple Ship for Phone Order Manager 5 and cURL for Soft Goods

This week we managed to knock out a couple of improvements to existing modules: the Simple Pay/Ship that we supply with Phone Order Manager 4 are now included with the 5.x version also.

With the restrictions some hosts place on php, particularly with regard to (the admittedly dangerous) allow_url_fopen, some store owners were unable to use Soft Goods. We have now release a download script that uses cURL instead.

Distractions: a fun little game

Weewar is a simple turn-based game, allowing you to take minutes–or months–to play against an opponent.

Time breakdown of modern web design

Sources are mentioned here.