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
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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
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
Simple Web Payments with OpenID and OpenTransact
This screencast shows how simple web payments can be using OpenTransact. Instead of making a payment to an email address, we can make a payment to a URL, particularly if it is an OpenID. The person making the payment simply adds a delicious-style bookmarklet and as you can see below, I simply re-used the javascript … Continue reading
CapCard: Opentransact with OAuth
Click To Play The previous two screencasts demonstrated using Opentransact for simple web payments without using OAuth. Now we see how Opentransact web payments can be made with OAuth. Watch the original larger screencast to make reading the typing easier on the eyes. To get OsCurrency to work with CapCard, I made this checkin. Continue reading
Stupid Currency Tricks: OpenTransact with OsCurrency
Here’s another OpenTransact demo. Last time, Nubux, a simple reference implementation, was the financial service provider. This time, OsCurrency is the FSP. Continue reading
Stupid Currency Tricks: OpenTransact Simple Web Payment
There’s been some good discussion on the Agile Banking list which includes simple web payments. This is like what we did on the previous screencast but simpler (mostly because we’re not using oauth). The use of the callback to confirm the payment can be trouble. The callback could timeout or maybe the merchant is inside … Continue reading
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