A quick reminder that the SWX Contest deadline is tomorrow.

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Here's quick update on the session I'm presenting at FlashBrighton's Big Day Out (the event's now sold out) this Saturday. The talk is titled Beyond the Buttons:

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I'm currently working on a stealthy little pet project of mine that involves creating a PayPal Website Payments Pro API in SWX. A couple of the methods in the API require quite a few arguments (all the billing-related fields for processing a credit card transaction, for example) and I quickly got sick of having to enter mock data manually in the SWX Service Explorer to test and debug methods calls. (This is one scenario where Transfer Object support would be helpful but adding that right now would complicate things too much.) So, to make things easier for myself (and hopefully some of you as well), I've added mock data support (both static and dynamic) to SWX PHP and the SWX Service Explorer.

Using mock data

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I was looking for a distraction from the PayPal integration stuff I'm working on today for my Super Secret New Project (tm) when I ran across Ted Patrick's Cards API post from yesterday and decided to quickly implement a SWX API for it.

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My friend Dan played around with SWXml yesterday and hacked together a simple RSS reader in three minutes:

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