To sign an pre agreement before actual quotation or not.
Posted on | July 8, 2011 | No Comments
I realise that there is a need to sign a pre agreement for projects before jumping into research and suggestion of a full fledged solution for the client.
I have a client who came to me via friend’s referral. He wanted an ecommerce website for school supplies. After a couple months of discussion and providing him with suggestions of a solution and showing some website demo for ecommerce website, we reached an agreement to build his website using wordpress with shoppe plugin.
On the very verge, literally, 1 hr after verbal agreeing to mail me the contract and cheque for the payment, he went back on his words because his partner wanted another company which he is having a retainer contract for his software selling website with to do the website.
Most unfortunately, the partner has to butt his way in at the very last second to say no, instead of 3 months ago when we initially made contact.
I have spent time to research, provide website demo with various solutions, suggestions and shared my experience with the client since he was so sincere to engage my service. All without signing any contract or agreement. Now they could very well take my suggestions and use it as project requirements for another company to build their website.
My client, despite claiming that it is most inconvenience for him to re-brief the new company, yet never put his feet down to say ‘NO’. A very feeble effort, and lots of excuses, to brush off his unethical action, handing the blame to his partner.
I guess I should choke it up as one unethical business person or two. And improved my own business processes to prevent such incidents from happening again. Looking on the bright side, it could be a most fortunate for me.
But this incident is most disconcerting. Affecting how people are being viewed.
Changing Model’s useTable from Controller
Posted on | August 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
I was struck trying to get the controller to change the table of a model for a while. It turns out that
$this->Payment->useTable = “payment_archives”;
doesn’t work..
Instead I have to use:
$this->Payment->setSource(“payment_archives”);
It seems that useTable is not referenced to when deciding which table to use.
iPhone development
Posted on | August 8, 2010 | No Comments
I have gotten a Mac machine for iPhone development.
My first tutorial: WebView
This is my first attempt for a iPhone application. Making use of WebViewUI to create an iPhone application that will load http://givemecake.dev-work.com.
This application is not signed with Apple Developer’s security certificate, it can be installed only on a jailbreak iPhone. 
To self sign the application or for version iOS4
A .ipa file is essentially a zipped up version of the .app file
Code are not yet released because it have not been tested on a real device.
Beta testers who are interested can leave me a comment with your contact email. Or email me to get the files.
Project Honeypot
Posted on | July 8, 2010 | No Comments
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/statistics.php
Paypal PDN Integration No shipping address for Credit Card Payment
Posted on | November 28, 2009 | No Comments
Default delivery address for Paypal Transactions is the Billing Address(which has to be the credit card holder’s address to prevent triggering fraud checks). Paypal allows user to specify another address when confirming the purchase. The website has already captured a shipping address on the checkout pages. The addresses captured and reflected in paypal’s system and notification email could be different from the ones captured by the website. To prevent the user from overriding the shipping address captured in paypal. Add in no_shipping = 1.
<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_cart” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”no_shipping” value=”1″ />
<input type=”hidden” name=”upload” value=”1″ />
<input type=”hidden” name=”business” value=”<?php echo Configure::read(‘paypal.paypal_biz’) ?>” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”return” value=”http://<?php echo DOMAIN.$html->url(‘/payments/completed/’.$order_id)?>” />
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