Lord Flipper - Slashdot User

+ - Alternatives for Small Company Online Store/Cart? 1

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Lord Flipper

on Friday July 09, 2010 @11:20AM

Lord Flipper writes "I'm in the process of building sites for a couple of small businesses. Both are using PayPal's Website Payments Standard for the transactions. After looking at numerous OpenSource and "paid" versions of Cart-based stores, it seems they're all determined to emulate butt-ugly eBay-like interfaces. The available (free, or otherwise) 'skins' or 'themes' are simply "putting lipstick on a pig" by employing beginner-level CSS.

My first question is: What have other developers used, or done, when faced with similar choices? And, secondly, how can I, as a third-party to the "banking" details (passwords, product IDs, etc), test whatever I end up with without forcing my clients to divulge info that they'd be crazy to share?"

+ - AT&T Responds to GOOG re: "Voice" & Net Ne-> 1

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Lord Flipper

on Thursday October 15, 2009 @05:38PM

Lord Flipper writes "This is the submission by AT&T, today, the 14th of October, 2009, in response to Google's submission to the FCC and Google's Public Policy statement from last week, regarding Google blocking of certain prefixes, etc, in their Google Voice application. The issues raised by Google, numerous, but revolving around concepts that seem to differentiate their service from that provided by other, regulated carriers, is interesting, and, apparently, debatable. The full document is listed in the blog piece as referenced above."
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