CategoryDevelopment

Implementing DataCash 3D Secure with ASP.net

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This is an article I’ve been meaning to write for a while now… Mainly, to help others out, who are struggling with the near non-existent documentation provided by Datacash, when trying to plug 3D Secure into my ASP.net application. I’m sure you’re already familiar with what 3D Secure is, so I won’t go in to too much detail, nor will I go into much detail with regards to the process. The purpose...

Ass-Kissing Blog Comment Spam

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Recently, I have been receiving a large amount of a different kind of comment spam on my WordPress blog. In an effort to get around the Akismet spam protection, they have created several variations of the same kind of poor English, brown nosing comments… that effectively mean nothing. The whole point of them, is to allow their URL to be posted in the “Website” field of the comment. I recently had...

Creating a new post in WordPress using the JoeBlogs library

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A few people have recently been asking how the NewPost method works within JoeBlogs First, you need to create an instance of Post. Then, set the following properties: dateCreated Fairly self explanatory, but you should set this to today’s date (or whatever date you wish the post to be set as published) title The title of the post description The body of the post. This can of course contain...

NVelocity template with decimal to two decimal places

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I wanted to be able to output a decimal value from an object in my NVelocity template. For example, the value of the decimal was: 3.40000 to represent 3.4. The end result: Total Order Value: 3.40 GBP I needed to display this as currency format. Sure, I could of used this String.Format method, but that adds £ or $ or whatever (depending on your environment setup) to the start of the resulting...

How to change the language on a Buffalo LinkStation from Japanese to English

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I recently had massive problems with my LinkStation and had to flash the firmware on it…. When I finally got it up and running again, my admin screen was in Japanese!! I followed the instructions on the FAQ – I thought I’d just put a few pics up to illustrate it a little better: Step 1 Log in to your admin panel You’ll see the screen below: Step 2 Click the 2nd option on the left, as shown...