Phase III of PA-DSS and what it means for you

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A major PCI-related deadline came and went on the 1st of October that many PCI/PA DSS compliant people may not have even felt fly past, in fact most merchants were not even aware of the details, even though they’ve been given an entire year to get up to speed. It is known as “Phase III” […]

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The MyBanco wiki

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Today I have started working on the MyBanco wiki. At the moment it is just a start, but it will be good to see it to start getting to completion. You can access the wiki at http://mybanco.org/wiki/

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MyBanco updates…

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At the moment, a new release of MyBanco is done every one to two months. The reason that there are not more updates to the MyBanco software is because do a new release is a complicated job. Queue in makeRelease.sh and updateRelease.sh. makeRelease.sh is an application that automatically clones the repository, automatically detects what the […]

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MyBanco 0.09 released!

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MyBanco 0.09 has been released. This release has a few new (minor) features in it, and a few minor bug fixes as well. The installer now ‘phones home’ to tell how many installations have been done. This is a new feature that I am working on where you can automatically be subscribed to new releases […]

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Adding SWIFT to MyBanco

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I have had a few emails regarding whether it would be possible to add Interbank communication support into MyBanco such as SWIFT, and I would just like to say here, YES! It is possible, and it is very easy to do. If you are looking to write a new plugin to do SWIFT transactions (or […]

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MyBanco: FAQ

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Every time I go to my Inbox every morning; I seem to have three or four questions waiting for me regarding MyBanco. Starting from the most asked question, and going down to questions I seem to get less often, I thought I might answer a few of those questions so that I will never have […]

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So, I just installed MyBanco

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Right, so you have a new installation of MyBanco, what should you do now? Well, here are a few ideas just to get the ball rolling: Create a new skin of MyBanco. Skins are very easy to make, you do it by just copying an existing skin to a new directory (skins are in C:\xampp\htdocs\Skins). […]

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Installing MyBanco with XAMPP on Windows

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Download xampp-win32-1.7.0.exe from the Apache Friends website Run xampp-win32-1.7.0.exe, and set the ‘Extract Path’ to C:\ ( It’s OK, all the files will go inside a directory called ‘xampp’ ) When the extracting has finished, go into C:\xampp\, and rename htdocs to htdocs.old Create a new directory called ‘htdocs’ Copy all of the extracted files […]

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Even more patches for MyBanco

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Yesterday I talked about the mybanco-0.05-better-curl-support patch, and now I have a few more to share. ==> mybanco-0.05-check-for-mysql.patch This patch makes the backend spit out a nice error if there is no MySQL extension loaded on the server. This is much better then things just appearing t do nothing ==> mybanco-0.05-better-errors-when-they-happen.patch This patch adds more […]

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New patch for MyBanco!

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Hello everyone! About time I updated this blog! Today I am writing to give you all a new patch (with another one comming in about one hour or three.) This first patch, which I am going to offer up today is to improve a small issue with installations that do not have cURL enabled. If/when […]

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How MyStocko works

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A few months ago, when I started working on MyBanco, I wrote a special RPC, or Remote procedure call protocol, a network protocol that allows a computer program running on one host to cause code to be executed on another host. This protocol, which uses HTTP/HTTPS and JSON is called MyInfo. MyInfo was designed so […]

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MyBanco 0.05 bad query patch

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There is a small typo around line 115 of backend/Plugins/transfer.php, where a line that says:$SQL = ‘INSERT INTO `myinfo`.`temp_data` (should actually say$SQL = ‘INSERT INTO `temp_data` ( You can either change this typo manually by hand, or download the patch from my patches folder my MyBanco. mybanco-0.05-bad-query.patch 15-Oct-2008 07:50 patch mybanco-0.05-bad-query.patch.md5 15-Oct-2008 07:52 md5 checksum […]

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Announcing MyStocko

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With the help of researchers Robert Marks, Blake LeBaron and John Holland, I have been able to start implementing an algorithm for a “self operating” stock exchange. Called MyStocko, it is an application that will be able to operate a simulated stock exchange automatically without any user or operator intervention. It records all buy/sell transactions, […]

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How the stock exchange works

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I have always wanted to be able to write my own software to run a stock exchange, but I have never been able to get a full grasp on how the whole stock exchange system worked. I always had been left with many questions. How exactly are the prices decided of the buying and selling […]

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MyBanco 0.05 out!

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100% Detect if all required modules are in PHP 90% Insert SQL dump into MySQL Could be improved on the SQL file import side Coming to the next release, which is due in seven days, is the ability for people people to gain money for posting on a forum!

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MyBanco v0.05 is coming

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The new version of MyBanco will be out within the next few hours, boasting a few new handy features, such as: An installer, which will insert the SQL dump into MySQL automatically. A few minor bugs fixed. Patches for SMF to enable the ability for people people to gain money for posting on a forum. […]

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Windows version of MyBanco released

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I have just added a zip version of MyBanco at the download site, so that people who are not advanced enough for Linux or OS X (only mucking around… seriously) can download MyBanco and upload MyBanco to thier webhost. You can download MyBanco from the usual place. Remember, it is licensed under the Affero General […]

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Making external applications add money to accounts in MyBanco

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I got an email earlier this morning, asking me how hard it would be to “make something that can activate a transaction when an action happens in another code”. I thought about it for thirty seconds, and realised that it would not be too hard. Infact, it was super easy to do. There are two […]

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New MyBanco bug fix release (v0.04)

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# diffstat mybanco-0.03-to-0.04.patch CHANGELOG               |  4 ++++ Skins/Simple/Simple.php | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- backend/index.php       | 28 ++++++++——————– backend/test.php        |  7 +++++++ libs/MyInfo-Client.php  |  7 +++—- 5 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) Mainly a bugfix release. Fixes the following issues: Data sent to MyInfo is now always unescaped. Nice pretty runtime errors for MyBanco. The right MyInfo server […]

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Anouncing MyBanco!

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Ever wanted to run your own bank? Well, my new [experimental] web application allows you to do exactly that. While some may say that I just have way too much time on my hands, others might just say that I should get top marks for my IPT [Information Processing Technology] assignment. We had to build […]

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