Paypal’s IPN can be frustrating at times and any programmer who’s worked with the IPN would know what the sandbox is for. It’s truly a wonderful thing. It let’s developers test out the IPN integration without having to spend anything through their own account. (more…)
Archive for April, 2006
Payal IPN and the Sandbox
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006Princeton’s WordNet and PHP
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006Wordnet is Princeton’s online lexical reference system. It’s a wonderful piece of work really. Wordnet prints out synonyms, meanings and what not of words depending on the use of the word. (That’s the best way I can describe it in layman’s terms.) It also has the power to differentiate between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs and the data of a word is stored depending on the context in which the word is used.
An online interface written in perl can be found here. Searching for the word “see” returns results where “see” is used as a noun and a verb. Pretty. (more…)
How Pool.com managed to get 60% of .eu domains on the first day
Sunday, April 9th, 2006I stand corrected. I always though things like these were about 100 times more likely to happen in a third world country than in a “union”, european union more specifically. I’m talking about the recent .eu domain name fiasco. Simply put, Pool.com a registrar, cheated to obtain .eu domains on the first day of the sale. Anyone who’s aware of the internet knows what power a good domain name holds, examples of domain names being sold for thousands of dollars (and even millions sometimes) can be found everywhere. Pool.com is going to have a nice bundle of cash once they’re done auctioning off their domain names. Nadeem Azam has written a very good article describing the entire fiasco in detail. (more…)