In 2008, over one thousand people experienced the world’s first virtual web conference. Together, we created a new type of conference that is environmentally-friendly, affordable, and interactive.

In 2009, we are going to take it one step further.


Displaying “Pay” instead of “Continue” on the PayPal site with PayPal Payments Pro UK Express Checkout

By default, PayPal Express Checkout for PayPal Payments Pro UK displays a "Continue" button and sends the user back to your site expecting a confirmation page before actually making the payment. This differs from other PayPal checkout procedures and, in my testing, I found that users expected to complete the transaction once on the PayPal [...]

Two ways to change your business’s name on PayPal…

First way: Call their premium 0870 support number and pay £??? to be told that they will send you an email with instructions on the procedure which involves sending them a fax then proceed to wait several days for said email without success. Second way: Sign in to your PayPal account, go to the Contact Us - My [...]

Google App Engine not blocking PayPal?

Update: Marzia from the Google App Engine team responded to the post. It is a bug (and, according to yet another update on the forums, this has now been fixed). Here's Marzia's comment: This is a bug, and we have located the problem. There was an error in our anti-phishing protections that was blocking some specific URL [...]

PayPal vs. Google Checkout: countries supported

Your choice of payment processors ultimately determines the number of people who can potentially purchase your product or service. Looking at the differences between PayPal and Google Checkout, I couldn't find a comparison of the countries each processor supported so I quickly whipped up my own using the data presented in the country list drop-downs [...]

PayPal country list component for Flex

If you're implementing PayPal Website Payments Pro Direct Payment in Flex, you're most likely going to need a ComboBox of country names and their ISO codes as expected by the PayPal API. There's some freely available code for HTML but I couldn't find anything for Flex. It only took three find and replaces, however, to [...]