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Roger Wright wrote: and don't offer a prebuilt solution we can hook into
Which always surprises me, that sites don't have some sort of a REST API for maintaining their products and exposing their products to third parties. It makes me wonder how they update their own site.
Roger Wright wrote: I'm leaning toward trying a MVC approach, with a different model for each source of product, including the store stock as a separate vendor. Scary.
A very reasonable approach, IMO, but gads, if you start dealing with screen scraping, the nightmare that'll be when the third party changes their layout. Maybe there's a much larger business opportunity here, to talk everyone into contracting you to write something sane. I mean, wasn't that what the holy grail of web services was supposed to be all about?
Roger Wright wrote: especially since I was hired to sell and repair guns.
See what happens when you mention you have skills in other areas? 
Marc
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Have you tried Python's Django? Quickest damned web site I've even seen, and surprised nobody's mentioned it. The longest task was introducing myself to PostgreSQL.
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Never heard of it before, Brady, but it does look interesting! Thanks for the suggestion. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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It really depends on how much the business is willing to spend on it (time/money wise).
Jeremy Falcon
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The company is willing and able to spend very little money, but it can spend as much time as it takes to get it done. I get a very tiny wage for sales and gunsmithing, and I'm expected to get this working in my 'spare' time. On the flip side, once it's working I'll be splitting the net with the company, so it's in my best interest to get it running soon. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Outsource...and relax
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Quote: Can you imagine? A naked man crawling along the wing of an airplane at 35,000 feet?
Which movie?
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British Airways: Economy Class
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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With EasyJet, wings are an upgrade! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wingmen
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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else
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MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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Catch me if you can
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I know this one.
It's the one where Commander Solomon took over from Captain Kirk.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How the westwing was won
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Snake on a wing 
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Paranoid, much?
Regards,
Palash
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When I think about me in this grand universe of consumerism, transactions , & financial systems. It just feels like me , a squirrel picking peanuts with bare hands and stocking them one by one in granary for future use. I'm into such a small biz. That's okay. But the problem is, the attackers don't even spare squirrels. The servers coming under DDos attacks and spammers taking over things doing their business more actively than me doing on my own servers.
We can spend some money , hire security experts and seal all holes. But it's almost like selling all my 2 years worth peanuts and pay the security expert only to protect an empty granary.Feels silly. You get the idea?
When I read news like Yahoo coming under attack. Linked-in getting spanked on their a*se. I get some ideas to drop online business and open a bakery at the street corner with cool steel shutters.
Yahoo, Linked-in : When all these huge giants spending millions on security systems, still getting to lose on security. People like me, should we even worry about this or just live by mercy of the attacker for our tiny online establishments?
Let me know if there's a script that detects a security breach attempt , and leave a direct note to the attacker's IP like:
"Respected attacker, I know you got skills. You could rip, roast this poor server.
But before you proceed, please read :
I'm a poor guy running a small business, Spare me, I'll give some IP addresses of my friends who are doing MUCH better and have real high-config servers. Trust me your throughput will be really high. Contact me to my email ID abc@xyz.com , - Yours Honestly & faithfully me ".
Okay the questions you could answer:
Breaches happen at big companies just because they made an accidental stupid mistake in their security systems that an usual hacker could take advantage of?
Or
The security systems were really great but the attacker was simply too brilliant, everytime?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Or
The management of the big companies happened to be so arrogant that they, collectively, saw no need to educate themselves enough to understand the problem and rearrange their spending priorities to budget for experts to defend their infrastructure effectively. Short answer - dumb, arrogant, short-sighted management goofs. The usual...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Just think about the heartbleed bug or other leaks that open up doors.
It's mostly those a hacker uses, because the longer it takes you mashing in doors on a server, the longer they have time to find you. 
Also, big companys often don't give a sh about professional security. Most times it's okay if they encrypt customer data, if it gets stolen nobody can decrypt (hahaha).
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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Truth of the matter is that security is really difficult to get correct, all the time, consistently, and ALWAYS will be.
Also, most users are idiots, and should never be allowed to work with sensitive materials/systems that need security in the first place.
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Is it more important that I believe you have a heartbeat than I have a heartbeat ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Your resting heartbeat is telling you more than you think!
Regards,
Palash
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If the mystics who preach that we, collectively, create the reality we experience from the maelstrom of potentiality that is Maya by our beliefs, what happens to your heartbeat if a majority of us cease to believe in its reality? Do you cease to exist, or do they?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Another view is that the nature of that reality we don't see, because we are projections of it, is ceaseless change and transformation between opposites; is it as likely that the heartbeat is also created by a heartbeat reality, one that can (while we are comatose, or in deep sleep) not be perceived by us, yet exists (or, so we believe, or predict on the basis of experience and social consensus ?
These words by Giordano Bruno (eviscerated alive, then burned at the stake in 1600), and his other writings, his heliocentric astronomical beliefs, and teachings, were reasons he was convicted of heresy (he refused to recant, and, so, was condemned to be burned alive) are interesting:Quote: “The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.”
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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 Being a student of the Western Esoteric Tradition, e.g. a first degree mystic, I give you ten out of ten for that.
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