by vinova | Mar 1, 2010 | Ruby on Rails, Technologies, Trends
There are always needs to build E-commerce sites with Credit Card transactions securely and seamlessly. In Singapore market, eNETs is the most well-known company providing payment gateway services. Up to now, eNETS only provide API for .NET and Java platform. In this post, I will show you my solution to integrate eNETS and Ruby on Rails via Java. Steps: 1. Build JAR file to submit payment info to eNETS, i named it enets.jar. This jar file will return output from eNETS to console in text format. I attached sample program built with NetBean, you can download it here: eNETS. After downloading, you just copy that folder to your NetBean projects folder as shown in below image. 2. Follow eNETS guideline, change setting for java security as well as generate merchant.priv.pgp.asc, merchant.pub.pgp.asc. 3. Change config: log4j.properties, NETSConfig.xml 4. Build enets.jar file from source files in NetBean. Right click on project root, Clean and Build. 5. Generate command to execute enets.jar, something like this: “java -jar #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/extensions/payment_gateway/lib/enets/eNETS.jar #{mid} #{tid} #{paymentMode} #{amt} #{currency} #{merRef} #{submitMode} #{merCertId} #{pan} #{expiry} #{stan} #{paymentType} #{successURL} #{successURLParams} #{failureURL} #{failureURLParams} #{notify_url} #{notify_url_params} #{name} #{cvv} #{post_url} #{post_url_params} #{cancel_url} #{cancel_url_params} #{bill_first_name} #{bill_last_name} #{bill_initial} #{bill_addr1} #{bill_addr2} #{bill_coy_name} #{bill_city} #{bill_state} #{bill_zip_code} #{bill_country} #{bill_mobile_num} #{bill_phone_num} #{bill_fax_num} #{bill_email} #{ship_first_name} #{ship_last_name} #{ship_initial} #{ship_addr1} #{ship_addr2} #{ship_coy_name} #{ship_city} #{ship_state} #{ship_zip_code} #{ship_country} #{ship_mobile_num} #{ship_phone_num} #{ship_fax_num} #{ship_email} #{shopper_ip_addr} #{product_format} #{product_details} #{gw_url}” 6. Run enets.jar from ruby console with output = %x[#{command}]. %x[] command will store output to output variable for later processing. It is not the same as system() or exec() ruby command. Read more on Jay Fields’ blog: Ruby Kernel system, exec and %x 7. Parse results returned...
by vinova | Mar 1, 2010 | Ruby on Rails, Technologies
Some benefits compare to RDBMS (MySQL, Postgres, Oracle …) I come up with after few months using MongoDB and Neo4J.* No model caching thanks to high performance * No join thanks to embedded docs or graph DB * Data-to-object matching is dead simple thanks to no-join and document-oriented * No SQL injection attack * No DB migration thanks to schemaless * Scale horizontally * Social computation made easy with graph DB * No DB roll-up thanks to high volume and cap-collection Q: How do I do data query & tabulation without SQL? A: I do data query via MongoDB indexing & JSON query syntax and do data tabulation via...
by vinova | Feb 25, 2010 | Ruby on Rails, Technologies
You also program in Ruby, right? Three languages! Can you contrast the 3 languages Scala, Clojure and Ruby? That’s a very interesting thing to think about, because Clojure and Ruby have sort of a similar feel in the sense that they are both more dynamically typed than statically typed. Clojure has an interesting relationship with Java, obviously, because it lets you use Java objects, but it doesn’t have type annotations all over the place, like you would have in Java or Scala. I think this general debate of static versus dynamic typing is kind of pointless in some sense, meaning that a lot of times it’s the application that really should dictate what’s best.If you are building something like a typical website that may need a lot of iterations very quickly and there is an informal model of the domain, then maybe it’s not so important to have the formalism of type theory. But, on the other hand, if you are building something that you wanted to behave in a mathematically precise way, then it’s great to have it. They type system of statically language that bakes in the almost provably correct behavior, at the fundamental building blocks. For example, if I’m building a financial application that manages money in some sense, I’d be more likely to want a statically typed language like Scala where I can very precisely specify the behavior of money. Then, build my account objects and so forth on top of that, knowing that they will be robust at this very fundamental level. But, if I’m building a website, where users may be specifying withdrawals...
by vinova | Feb 24, 2010 | business
Zan did a great job of comparing several payment gateways in Singapore. In summary, below are what i found to be important. Available Options in Singapore: Paypal Website Payment Standard Paypal Payflow Gateway E-Nets E-Clearing World Pay Payment Express Cybersource 2c2p Cost Comparison World Pay Enets Paypal Payment express Set up fees S$250 S$200 Free S$150 Annual fees S$650 S$450 Free S$600 Transaction fees 4.50% 4.50% 3.4% + S$0.50 100 free transactions, S$0.50 per transaction thereafter Final Decision? Eventually, we decided to use Paypal Website Payment Standard. Why? First, the cost is the lowest. There are no set up fees or monthly fees. You only pay when there’re purchases. Second, the process is easy to set up. All I needed is a credit card. Applying for a merchant account at the banks is a hassle in comparison. There is processing time, and added charges for the set up can be quite...
by vinova | Feb 22, 2010 | Technologies
About The Neo4j Graph Database Neo4j, the world’s leading graph database, stores data in graphs rather than relational tables. This makes Neo4j especially suitable for applications that handle data with complex relationships, like social networks, life sciences, intelligence and financial applications. Neo4j offers users: extremely high performance on deep traversals and mining of complex data, rapid schema evolution for changing business requirements, and simplified development through perfect match between domain model and database schema. These advantages make Neo4j the most effective database choice by many social networking services and other applications that manage ever more complex business data. via blogs.neotechnology.com * Reading Linked * Exploring Neo4j * Thinking of using Neo4j in one of my current...
by vinova | Feb 22, 2010 | Technologies, Trends
Scott: As you mentioned, there is an Apache version of Hadoop and then there’s the Cloudera version. As different companies wrap themselves around different open source projects, they’re structured in different ways. Talk a little bit about Cloudera and what you add to the public open source version of Hadoop, in terms of additional software, support, or services. Amr: I should start by saying that Cloudera is an enterprise software company. Open source is an enabler for us, and it’s part of what we do, but our mission is about building enterprise software for large-scale data processing in internal or external clouds. via...
by vinova | Feb 22, 2010 | business, Technologies, Trends
The group at Yahoo! that I came from was using Hadoop for data analytics and data warehousing. We had something like 100,000 web servers across the world, and once we collected data from across all these servers, we dumped it into Hadoop, which became the place where we stored all of the data, instead of traditional network storage. Our reasoning for doing that was a matter of economics, given the quantity of hardware. Hadoop lets us scalably process that data, clean it up, and normalize it so we could pass it along to the systems that need it. Hadoop is getting very wide adoption in the data warehousing and business intelligence domains. One of the biggest uses within Yahoo! right now is dealing with all of the log information from servers. Analyzing that information allows for better spam filtering, ad targeting, content targeting, A/B testing for new features, et cetera. It’s not web-specific. For example, everybody does data warehousing, and we see very strong adoption there. Separate from that, your example of oil companies is a very good one, as is the financial sector. Right now, we do have a couple of very large financial institutions working with us on these exact problems, taking huge amounts of data from domains like credit card processing and building predictive models for fraud that enable better decisions, for example, about whether to block or allow a given transaction. In the stock market, Hadoop is being used to do simulations that help predict option pricing and related problems. That’s another very healthy market that we’ve seen growth in. via howsoftwareisbuilt.com Knowing that Yahoo...
by vinova | Feb 22, 2010 | business, Technologies, Trends
First, it’s worth making the important clarifying point that Hadoop is not a database. Hadoop is a data processing system, and in fact, I would even go as far as saying Hadoop is an operating system. The core of an operating system boils down to a file system, the storage of files, and a process scheduling system that runs applications on top of these files. There are many other components that help with devices, credentials and user access, and so on, but that is the core. Hadoop is exactly the same thing. The core of Hadoop is the Hadoop Distributed File System, which is a file system that’s runs across many nodes. It links together the file systems on many local nodes to make them into one big file system. Hadoop MapReduce is really the job scheduling system that takes care of scheduling jobs on top of all those nodes. That is the key distinction between Hadoop’s approach and that of database systems. Hadoop, at its heart, does not require any structure to your data. You can just upload files directly from anywhere, like a web server, RFID device, or cell phone mobile device, directly into Hadoop. They could be images, videos, or just a bunch of bits. They don’t have to have a schema with column types and so on, which gives you tremendous agility and flexibility. Hadoop has a very nice model that I sometimes refer to as schema on read. Whereas defining your schema as you’re writing the data in limits what you can put in by requiring it to be conformant to the schema that...
by vinova | Feb 22, 2010 | Testimonials
Mike, Nguyen Dinh Hai, has provided excellent support to Singapore Safety Driving Centre Ltd as our contract vendor programmer. Some of the projects he had completed for us: Recovery of data when our database server failed in 2008 Upgraded two of our servers in 2008 & 2009. Upgraded request changes in program functions according to our specifications Wrote a program and implemented wireless loading and updating of student’s progress Using the IPOD touch. Maintenance of SSDC website (www.ssdcl.com.sg) He has shown great abilities and knowledge to get things done in the most challenging and difficult period even at odd hours. Joe Lim Asst Manager Singapore Safety Driving Centre Ltd Dated: 27 May...
