OK new subject: what the heck is bit coin? — William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) January 3, 2014 Disclaimer: I am deliberately avoiding edge cases and other costs of Bitcoin. Bitcoin (BTC) is a relatively new system and we often make sense of new systems by drawing on familiar experiences to describe them, so it is natural … Continue reading
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android / oauth / open source / opentransact / screencast
OpenTransact on Android
Update (June 15): Cyberwire on Google Play App Store Cyberwire is an open source proof-of-concept for OpenTransact on Android. In the screencast, we see the Android app used to transfer 10 imaginary coffeebucks using one OpenTransact provider implementation. Even with a different OpenTransact provider implementation, we see the same functionality accessed by the same Android … Continue reading
Code / oauth / opentransact
OpenTransact: Testing OAuth Scopes with Artifice and Cucumber
In this screencast, we’ll improve the code introduced in the previous post OAuth Scopes with UMA Action URLs with the help of our friends Artifice and Cucumber. Calls to Net::HTTP can be intercepted by Artifice and sent to your rack application instead of the network. If you are developing an OAuth provider, Artifice makes testing … Continue reading
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OAuth Scopes with UMA Action URLs
In a recent South Park episode, Kyle is kidnapped and subjected to product prototyping (made of people) by employees of a large, cult-like tech company who explain that it is all justified: Kyle failed to read the complex terms and conditions he agreed to. Unfortunately, the risks of consenting to the agreement were not clear … Continue reading
What’s new with oscurrency
See this video on blip.tv. This is a 10 minute explanation of the feature changes in the groupy branch. The motivation and design was discussed in RSpec And CanCan Authorization for Intentional Economics three months ago. Continue reading
The Health Class: Dr. Ted Norris interviews Sheila Gordy, Austin Time Exchange
The Health Class: Dr. Ted Norris interviews Sheila Gordy, Austin Time Exchange on Vimeo. Continue reading
RSpec and CanCan Authorization for Intentional Economics
Not long after moving the Austin Time Exchange to Ruby on Rails, we started receiving requests for a groups feature since some local groups were interested in having their own currency but did not want to run their own instance of the software and their members were already on the existing system. Since we’re a … Continue reading
Grassroots Economy Festival – Oakland, CA.
“An alternative grassroots economy already exists in the Bay Area.” – Mira Luna Continue reading
A simpler alternative to rel-payment
The previous screencast may have tried to use too much technology to enable user-centric simple web payments. After looking around some, it occurred to me that the rel-payment microformat is not sweeping the world wide web. Using the Internet Archives, I found a blog post from July 2005 that announced support for rel-payment on blip.tv. … Continue reading
OpenTransact: rel-payment and OpenID
Warning: I boosted the microphone amp on this one. 🙂 A blog is a great place to accept web payments. Livejournal, blogger and wordpress allow bloggers to make their blog url their OpenID. In this screencast, we see that when a blogger on WordPress.com adds links, she can easily associate the type of link (through … Continue reading
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