JAX Conference 2013



A few days ago I went with a friend to JAX conference 2013, a conference in which experts & leaders from the industry share their thoughts and experience with other Java community members. We started with a session about testing HTML5 in all browsers using Java by Kevin Nilson. He got me hooked right from [...]

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Patent troll Uniloc takes a hit



A few months ago I wrote a post about intellectual property telling the story of a small company called Laminar Research which might be forced to shut-down due to a lawsuit they’re facing. Well, I was glad to read this morning that the same patent-troll, Uniloc, got their claim against Rackspace dismissed by a chief judge Leonard Davis which [...]

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Using API to create single-click order experience



On the previous posts we went over the different options of online payment processing and then dived a bit deeper into a discussion about how user-experience effects the conversion and how can we improve both by using an API. The last two examples showed how to use an API in order to create a shopper entity on Bluesnap [...]

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How to Improve Customer-Experience and Conversion with API



Important: all the links and the code-examples that are embedded in this post, link toPlimus service in  Bluesnap’s sandbox – so feel free to play with it – all the credit-card charges are not real! On the previous post , we talked a bit about the different options of online payment-processing and now it’s time to talk about the [...]

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Online Payment Processing



I started writing a post that demonstrates how a vendor can use API calls in order to create a better shopping experience and help convert shoppers into buyers. But after a few lines I figured that there is a basic terminology and motivation that might be obvious to me (since I worked in the eCommerce [...]

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SEO Made Simple – book summary and review



A good friend of mine runs his own company. He always paid 3rd parties to handle his SEO but, as a developer, he felt he should put the effort into learning, at least the basics, so that he could understand if the money he’s spending on these services has a good ROI. So a few days [...]

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