iAuction Part 2: Building an Adaptive Test Harness

iAuction Part 2: Building an Adaptive Test Harness

In the previous tutorial we showed how the PayPal Adaptive Payments API could be integrated into a simple application. We built a Java application with the Play Framework that was deployable on the Google Application Engine. To quickly get up and running and to illustrate the API in operation, we relaxed some of the standard [...]

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AppSumo & StickerMule love

AppSumo & StickerMule love

The folks over at AppSumo have teamed up with StickerMule to give all startups a much needed stickerboost. I will be getting a bunch of these for Dublin City Soul Festival and then sticking them all over the place !

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Playing with HornetQ Messaging

Playing with HornetQ Messaging

I am currently evaluating HornetQ for a client to handle their asynchronous messaging.The use case is a large distributed cache that allows for large scalability. I briefly outline my approach here

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Novell iManager Identity Management with dirXML

Novell iManager Identity Management with dirXML

dirXML is an identity management framework which allows for bi-directional communication to and from the eDirectory store.
There are a bunch of drivers available already , Active Directory and a generic loopback driver that will allow for events to be fired upon the container itself.
For my project I had to design a driver from scratch , there was a specific API to an external system and the communication was over MQ.

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Exploring REST Services with curl

I have started a new job and am now exploring their REST based API.Here are some basic curl commands that will pipe the results to xmllint and pretty print the results to the console

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iAuction: Adaptive Payments on Play & GAE

iAuction: Adaptive Payments on Play & GAE

iAuction is an Adaptive implementation in Java hosted on the Google App Engine platform. Adaptive Payments caters for payment flows such as Chained and Parallel Payments. In this example we will model a Parallel Payment, where a single buyer splits a payment among known sellers i.e. the Merchant gets 95% of the price as payment while the Auctioneer gets 5% commission.

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Sunset over 2010

Sunset over 2010

Was a clear night in Tarifa in January.

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New Twitter Skin for Rising Stars

New Twitter Skin for Rising Stars

Well , created a new skin for our Rising Stars Twitter page You can follow us here: http://twitter.com/risingstarsdub

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