MyBanco Making external applications add money to accounts in MyBanco August 5, 2008 / August 5, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment 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 […] Read more » API external help money MyBanco transactions
ShareSource Making ShareSource ‘Google Friendly’ August 4, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment In the past few days, I have been working on making ShareSource a little more search engine (and in some cases user friendly). The changes all round are pretty minor, but they were necessary things that had to be done, as Google Webmaster Tools said that ShareSource had around 3,000 pages with the same title! […] Read more » PHP ShareSource updates
MyBanco New MyBanco bug fix release (v0.04) August 4, 2008 / August 4, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment # 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 […] Read more » bank MyBanco PHP research updates
OpenNIC A .firm Top Level Domain? August 3, 2008 / August 4, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Hi, Prior to writing a charter I hope to determine how well received .firm will be as a top level domain. The domain will be for users who want to establish any kind of presence in the OpenNIC name space, commercial or non commercial. This would be the alternate ‘.com’ , more or less but […] Read more » .firm OpenNIC
Misc OpenNIC The modern BBS August 2, 2008 / August 3, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Ahhh, the modern BBS. Let’s examine it. The modern BBS (which has yet to be given a name) is a mini hackathon project that I am doing to give some life to the rotting away OpenNIC “.bbs” top level domain. I am going to operate a bulitin board system, but update it a little at […] Read more » .bbs OpenNIC Perl retro SSH
OpenNIC How to run your own Top Level Domain July 31, 2008 / August 6, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 5 Comments on How to run your own Top Level Domain What does it take to run a Top Level Domain Registry? And what’s more easy to run: a ccTLD or gTLD? Opinions so far have ranged from “it’s easy” to “it’s a serious business” – both of which are obviously far too vague to being to measure what is an intriguing question. Some suggestions fall […] Read more » cctld gtld icann OpenNIC TLD top level domain
Random Thoughts How much it costs to run a .tld July 29, 2008 / July 29, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 1 Comment on How much it costs to run a .tld If we were to run a proper top level domain (eg, a .au or a .nz), I would need seven or eight computers located around the world. The proof is in the root. dig au NS @4.2.2.2 | grep ^au. | wc -l The command above returns “8“, which means that the Australian top level […] Read more » BIND dns IANA icann maths OpenNIC rants
OpenNIC Preparing galium TLD software to do new tricks July 28, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I am currently working on the next version of galium, the software that runs the .ing top level domain name. This update will be minor upgrade-wise (going from a 0.2 to a 0.3), but will provide a few new features, and will pave the way to galium 1.0. What Galium 0.3 will do: Enforce domain […] Read more » .ing Galium MyInfo OpenNIC
OpenNIC Galium update comming in the next 20 minutes July 27, 2008 / July 27, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment My Galium top level domain software will get a minor update soon, which will fix a few [minor] outstanding issues. Usernames can now contain the “-” character The zone file generator will not always give the outputted revision as being “0” (this stopped all updates from not appearing on slave DNS servers until the following […] Read more » .ing Galium OpenNIC PHP TLD updates
Experimental Ruby on Rails July 27, 2008 / July 27, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 3 Comments on Ruby on Rails A good friend of mine, Jordan Bracco recently forced me to rediscover Ruby on Rails. He told me that the new version, 1.9 is “5000x faster”, so I thought, well, why not! The last version of Ruby I tried was either version 1.7 or 1.8, and it was not really something that I would say […] Read more » experiments PHP ruby