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I was recently asked to implement a subscription offering for a client on their web application. I was initially apprehensive based on the naive assumption that taking payments had to be complicated. Given that the client offers a single product at a single price and that the subscription is 'digitally

I have been building a web and mobile application which provides location functionality based on a complex integration with the Google Places API. Fortunately their web API is well documented, and given the scale of the data on offer is well covered with integration wrappers for the various appropriate programming

When rebuilding the search functionality of a product that I am working on I managed to quite effortlessly completely break the mobile applications client integrations with the API. The main issue was that I was entering some unchartered territory, and trying to do some pretty complex things. I was in

The content of this post relates to version 1.12 of Twitter's Android APIs (which were the latest versions at the time of publishing) One of the most annoying things that I have encountered as an engineer is those situations whereby you encounter an issue which you are adamant that

In the process of building multiplatform applications which integrate with social platforms I have been required to investigate Facebook's developer tools and processes. Unfortunately the process has been somewhat painful. I thought I would document the curiosities I encountered such that anyone else encountering them can resolve them with more

For one of my web based projects I needed to acquire some data. Data in the modern day and age is often the most valuable asset of a company... it got me thinking. The Royal Mail here in the UK offer a Postcode Address File (PAF) to any entity who