Today, we’re continuing work on our multipart message aggregation upgrade for a future Esendex release.
One part of the investigations this morning has been looking into how we manage the database access as we add parts of an incoming message to it for later processing. As we have multiple servers processing inbound messages, [...]
I have a feeling that a lot of small to medium development operations will still be using Microsoft‘s Visual SourceSafe to manage their central code-base despite its limitations.
Given that Microsoft have since addressed this hole in their development offerings with the excellent Team Foundation Server which offers a seamless [...]
Being involved in web development work, I have to have a wide range of browsers installed to make sure what I’m creating is accessible to as many people as possible. Whilst I still have a soft-spot for Opera, it is without a doubt that Firefox is the Swiss Army Knife of all browsers.
Following on from my previous post about credit card authentication with regular expressions, I thought I’d share my other discovery.
The BIN Ranges list I found showed a list of Visa cards which were designated ‘ATMOnly. Figuring these would be a good thing to filter out during validation.
There’s plenty of [...]
We’ve been working on a change request to add Maestro to the credit cards that we accept for ecommerce payments. Switch started in 1988 but has now merged with the Maestro network owned by MasterCard in the UK.
Until recently, if you took Switch payments then UK customers who had new [...]
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- @KnackeredCoder oh I agree. It all helps. 2nd in the table is a great start. I'd just like wins to be try based,penalty light tussles
- @KnackeredCoder not exactly singing. As they said it was Scotland that lost not England that won.
- That was so close to a try for Scotland. I reckon it was his wrist that stopped that ball rotating but it was nearly his hand. #BBC6nations
- @rhys_isterix I think they're getting back on top of this game. England dented their confidence mid first half.
- RT @Deborandum: Do NOT drive out in Derbyshire - roads are NOT gritted and are dangerous #buxton #Belper #Ashbourne


Of spam and things…
It’s been a few times this last year that I’ve been the victim of a domain spam attack. Sending email appearing to be someone else isn’t a difficult thing to achieve. Yet when someone takes one of your domains and sends spam, well I was going to say on my behalf but I never asked [...]