NodeJs is widely adopted by development companies as it helps reduce the time to market for apps. Reduced labor costs and agility are other benefits that result in rapid development, which helps companies to react to fast-changing commercial landscapes of today’s time.This is a JavaScript run-time environment, which means that it includes everything required to implement a program written in JavaScript.

Here are 5 ways in which NodeJs reforms the rules of app development:

Modular design

The best example to consider for this would be PayPal, which developed an application in parallel with one team using Java and another team using NodeJs.

According to Jeff Harrell, the Director of Engineering and Chief Architect at PayPal, the app built using NodeJs required 33 percent less number of lines of code; was able to handle double requests per second; and reduced response time by 35 percent as compared to Java version.

The team with 2 developers was able to complete the project in two weeks whereas Java developers, 20 in number, were still working to complete the project after eight months. PayPal embraced to reduce massive code base and redesigned their current Java services.

If you are planning to build your next application, opt for development services for modularity. As each module has its own functionality, and can be shared across teams, this allows quick app development as well as better team collaboration.

Ecosystem

The modular design of NodeJs code builds a rich ecosystem that can be embraced while building an app. This ecosystem integrates the work of low-level programmers and front-end JavaScript developers for server-side development.

The dependencies within its ecosystem make it easier to incorporate, adapt and share.

Collaboration

Its modular design and large ecosystem allow programmers delivering NodeJS development services to enjoy better collaboration. Java creates monolithic systems and deep alliance using Object Oriented programming, which makes it difficult to share discrete functional components. This, on the other hand, facilitates app development, allowing the apps to be built faster with more focused components that have a specific functionality and that can be easily shared across different teams.

Time to market

Modular design, fewer lines of code and cross-organizational collaboration, all help in accelerating time to market.

This helped the team of developers at Yahoo to deliver a fully-functional, production-ready app in 30 days by exploiting modular design with small modules along with an internal registry for efficient collaboration.

Owing to its dynamic nature, JavaScript allows faster iteration to allow the team offering development services to deliver quick solutions to market. Teams can build, test and deploy new services and user experiences to satisfy customer needs.

Operating costs

Not only makes it easier to build software applications, but also makes them cost-effective. Companies require less compute power to host NodeJs apps and allow operation teams to ensure one-to-one relationship between a compute resource and server.

As less number of developers are required to work on a single NodeJs project, it also cuts down labor costs.

NodeJs development companies know that is great for achieving high performance, reduced costs, increased productivity and faster development. This is why top software development companies across the globe are embracing to deliver quick solutions to their clients.

If you are planning to build your next app, look for a reliable NodeJs development company that has the experience and expertise to provide top-notch, business-focused NodeJS development services to build a high-performance, flawless and scalable app in fast turnaround time. After all, the success of your project depends majorly on the development team that you choose.

Phishing. Not familiar with that term? I suggest you learn it now. It is used to describe a bogus web site, designed to look like an authentic web site. This technique is reminiscent of a plot out of Mission Impossible the TV show where the IM crew often fooled people into thinking they were in a different place than they really were by duplicating the environment. Why would someone duplicate a website environment? Read on.

I stopped by the church the other day just as my pastor was about to send personal information to a bogus site set up to steal account information. He had gotten an email from PayPal saying his account was going to be suspended until he logged in to provide the information that was needed to keep his account open. The problem is that the message was not from PayPal. It was an elaborate scheme to have people click through to a website they thought belonged to PayPal site and enter their logon and password. Once the bad guys capture that information, they can log into your account and make purchases. In this case, they were also asking for the bank account number on a secondary screen. He actually had already provided the logon and password when I got there. I had him change his password ASAP. Luckily he had not hit the send button yet to provide them with his bank info, which he could not change quickly like a password. He was lucky. Now he is smart, so he doesn’t have to be lucky.

I get these bogus emails for PayPal often. One time I saw that the address was PayPaI.com where the l (el) was actually a capital I (ay). So it looked for a moment like this one really was from PayPal. It is very easy to make a page look like another site. I actually learned how to program web pages by borrowing from other websites and looking at their pages and trying to reproduce similar effects. Once at work I created a replica of a logon screen for an application. When the user tried to logon, they were going to get whacky error messages such as “If you think I’m going to let you log on, you’re crazy.” I thought that trick would be a ton of laughs. I shared it with a co-worker who said I’d get into trouble, so I never pulled off that internal phishing scheme. I was just doing this for a joke. The guys on the internet doing this are not out for laughs. They’re out to steal anything they can. Banks and organizations like PayPal will not ask you for this type of information over the Internet. If they have a problem with your account, you will be contacted using more secure methods. So when you get those emails from Bank of America or PayPal etcetera, send that lure to the trash bin along with the emails from Africa telling you that you’ve been selected to receive some inheritance money or from anywhere telling you that you’ve won a lottery.

Here’s a couple of links that will give you more wisdom: www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/phishing/symptoms.aspx.

www.onguardonline.gov/topics/phishing.aspx

Christians are supposed to be harmless as doves, but wise as serpents. So you might say this practical lesson in using the Internet is a spiritual lesson. Speaking of the Internet, a bill is going to Congress to give the president the right to shut down the Internet. Why in the world would someone want to shut down the information highway? Think about that one for a while. I’ll have a column in the next day or two which will shed some more light on it. See a story here: newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news162.htm

Indian Financial System Code (IFSC) codes are assigned to every single bank in India by the RBI. The Indian Financial System Code is being used as an addressing code. The code is an 11 Digit Alphanumeric code with the starting four characters representing the bank code, the next character is a control character, and the remaining characters are to identify the Branch.

There are two methods to verify PayPal account. First method is by linking your bank account and the second method is by linking your Credit or Debit Cards. It totally depends on the user on which method he/she should choose.

Steps to verify PayPal account without using Credit/Debit cards:

• In your account page click on “get verified”
• Select the option “link to my bank account”
• Enter your Bank account details and click on start process to confirm bank account and get verified

Now PayPal will make two small deposits in your bank account. Check your bank transaction details after 4-5 days and enter the amount deposited by PayPal in the verification page. Now you have verified your PayPal account,But the problem with most of the Indian PayPal users who try to verify their respective PayPal account using “link my bank account” method has to enter the IFSC code for their bank. The code can be easily downloaded from the Reserve bank of India’s Website or directly download it from an alternate location. The codes will be in Microsoft Excel format. You may download the whole database or select your bank from the list.

PayPal scams are common for first time eBay and PayPal users. Most first time users know nothing about PayPal’s terms of service. These terms of service are flawed and allow scammers to take advantage of gullible PayPal users. This is not entirely PayPal’s fault. It is the responsibility of the first time user to learn about PayPal, what it protects users against and what it will not protect them against. Once one learns the basic about PayPal, getting scammed is pretty much impossible. PayPal scams are the same scams by the same people.

Every now and then a new PayPal scam comes out when a scammer decides to look through the terms of service and find a loophole he can expose to make a quick buck. These scammers can make anywhere from a Dollar to a Thousands of dollars off one person. The gullibility of a PayPal user is what really gets him or her scammed. Most PayPal scams are very obvious and can be spotted from a mile away, except for one or two of them. These ones can be prevented by simply not buying certain items.

There is money to be made using PayPal, but you should never take that for gratitude and use PayPal on every occasion. Sometimes it’s just better to pay with cold hard cash or pay with your credit card. While it may seem that it is safe to use PayPal to receive payments and send payments, you should always think of yourself as a victim that could be targeted anytime by anyone, once this principle has been instated, you will be ready to enter the world of PayPal and always remember to be careful when buying or selling something. The world of PayPal is indeed a risky one if you don’t know the game.

Easy Basket Article

Introduction

Hi, I’m a young, inspiring, web developer in the United Kingdom and I am currently interested in the ecommerce side of web design which lead me to find this great solution for many beginners like myself.

Shopping carts are one of the most frequently used parts on the web. But for a programmer creating them has never been easy. Even for a few items the programmer has to create a database and other support files to create a functioning shopping cart.

This is where I find Easy Basket to be different and next I will tell you why.

How Easy Basket Works

EasyBasket basically works by manipulating XSL forms. When an item is added on the client page, EasyBasket with the help of jQuery serializes the form and sends it to the server. On the server PHP uses the core.xsl file to update and transform the received form and send it back to the client. The complete shopping cart functions – create/update/add/delete (CRUD) is handled by the XLST logic; this is something original I’ve seen related to shopping carts.

Note that in all this flow a database is never used. This allows small websites having a few items to quickly add a shopping cart to their site.

Pros

EasyBasket takes a different approach at creating a shopping cart; although technically complex in its execution, it is extremely simple for the user to install. With EasyBasket you can quickly insert a shopping cart anywhere on your web page with a single line of code. No need of installing a database or a dozen class files. Google Checkout and PayPal Checkout are integrated into the code, all you need to do is change the credentials and your cart is ready to go. Other things I liked about my experience using Easy Basket are, the code-less WordPress Plug-in option and the amount of support you can get directly get from the website, including live remote support. Other small things I like were the drag and drop feature and Skin Tutorials.

Cons

In my short experience using EasyBasket the only con’s I would mention are, the lack of Payment gateways beyond PayPal and Google Checkout. I also noticed a minor problem with the buy now button, but after talking to the developer on there live support I was pleased to find out that this has been addressed and will be fixed in the next release, due before Christmas 2011.

Conclusion

In Conclusion, I would say EasyBasket is one of the best free e-commerce solutions for small business’ available on the Internet, after browsing other shopping carts, all of them offer a lot less unless I am willing to pay high amounts of money, which just isn’t a realistic option for the smaller e-commerce shops on the web.

A few years ago I was running a Chinese forum using the most popular forum system in China, Discuz. Discuz has a very useful user point system where points can be assigned to forum users depending on how much they participate. Depending on how many points a user has, he is granted different levels of permissions to do different things such as viewing file attachments, broadcasting global “shout outs”, etc. Discuz also included a feature where users can purchase these points through Alipay (China’s most popular online payment system). However only people living in China can use Alipay, so since all my bank accounts are Canadian, I had no way to monetize my forum through this point purchasing system.

I searched around in the Discuz official forum for a PayPal module which I could use outside of China, but had no luck. However I did notice many other people in the same situation searching for the same thing. So I thought maybe I could write this module and sell it, which I did, and made about a thousand dollars off it. The module was basically a free download, however I added some basic authentication mechanism to it so that the user can only use it for 10 times before the module locks up. It will become usable again only if the user purchase a password from me that is generated from the user’s domain name, so one purchase is only usable for one domain. This authentication piece was encoded with Ioncube so that a typical user cannot easily neutralize it.

Unfortunately the Discuz platform upgrades so frequently that my plugin soon required update. I originally wrote the plugin for Discuz 6.0, but soon Discuz 6.1 was released. I updated the plugin for 6.1, then 7.0 was released. I updated the plugin for 7.0, but more new versions were released, and now it is Discuz X1! Finally I realized it is a bad business model anyways that my product is based on another company’s product, so I decided to cease development. My time is worth more than what I can make with the plugin if spent elsewhere.

Moral of the story? Don’t based your product on product of someone else, if their product becomes obsolete so will yours. However the upside is I am now pretty good at programming for PayPal integration.

In the last year I have met people that have tried to market their products on the internet. They have spent a significant amount of money on email marketing, pay per click advertising, safe lists and more. A majority of these people became disillusioned because their revenues from sales of their products were less then their advertising budget. They became very confused since their website statistics reflected a significant increase in hits which did not correlate to the number of sales.

They continued to join various marketing programs that they believed were going to make them rich with little or no effort only to find out once again they lost their money.

Their goal was to make money on the internet delivering a good product at an affordable price. They then realized, even if they have a new innovative product that’s fantastic, if consumer confidence is down the likelihood of them making a purchase is reduced significantly. After these people continued to lose money day in and day out they eventual came to the conclusion it was time to shut their website down. This was due to not matching the right kind of reliable marketing with their particular product.

Due to all the scams and misunderstandings regarding the internet people have become skeptical to use their credit cards online. Website owners found Paypal to be an excellent vehicle to increase sales. Paypal increased consumer confidence in turn sales dramatically increased. Paypal created a marketing package that was very user friendly. Once their Paypal accounts were set up, they immediately noticed they had an increase in sales that were directly tracked to Paypal. In some cases sales increased 1000%. Consumers also found it was easier to enter their password and click pay verses having to enter all their personal information. This came the consumer a comfort level and an easy way to make a purchase. This was a win win situation for both the buyer and the seller.

You can now even make money with Paypal’s Affiliate Merchant Referral Bonus Program.

There are many reliable marketing companies to help you grow like Paypal. A new website that has been growing from day to day has quite a few marketing products. The website offers information on marketing, Google, Yahoo, search engine submission and optimization, marketing plans, website promotion, affiliate programs and more. Take Flight With Reliable-Marketing http://www.reliable-marketing/

Marketing becomes easier to understand as you educate yourself with different marketing techniques.

One of the major drawbacks for online store owners who accept PayPal is the unbranded checkout it provides. Many owners want to display their shops logo – rather than an email address – to help make customers feel more at comfortable. Thankfully, PayPal now allows users to customize their PayPal checkout process with a logo or image. This free service is something that can easily be implement with reliable, free, and secure image hosting.

One of the biggest reason store owners want to display their logos in the PayPal checkout is security. Some customers don’t feel secure when all they see is an email address and not the store logo, which potentially may cause the store to lose a sale.

This article will step you through the necessary steps to make and insert an image in your PayPal checkout.

• Start with a new document 750x90px
  • Tt may be smaller in size but it cannot be larger.
  • If it is smaller than 750x90px, then the image will be place in the upper left of the header.
• Add your logo or text to the document and save as a .gif, .jpg, .png
  • It is a good idea to keep the same colors and flow of your website as to not alarm customers. You should also state somewhere that it is a secure page and the transaction is being handled through PayPal.com. This will ease customer’s
    tensions.
  • Also, remember that PayPal will place a 2px solid black line around your image.
• Upload your image to padlockhost.com
  • If not on a secure server, a warning will popup stating that secure and unsecure information is displayed on the same page.
  • Just go to padlockhost.com and select “browse” and then “upload” once you have selected your image.
  • Copy the URL listed under “FULL SIZE” and “Secure”.
  • Be sure not to copy the “[URL]” tags.
• Add the image to your PayPal shopping cart.
  • Login to your account at PayPal.com account.
  • Click the “Profile” subtab.
  • Click the “Custom Payment Pages” link in the Selling Preferences column.
  • Click “Add” to enter the information you would like to customize.
  • Click “Preview” to preview your page style and if it looks
    desirable, click “Return”.
  • Click “Save” to save your customized page style.
  • To make this custom page primary, click the “Make Primary” button.
  • Click “Make Primary” again to confirm the change

    Note: The Primary page style applies to all of your payment pages, unless specified otherwise for a particular button or link.

Have you been considering establishing some revenue from selling something on your website?

One of the easiest ways to transition your website into a commerce site is to add a PayPal button to your website.

The Virtues Of PayPal

Not only does PayPal make it easy for you to grab a “Buy Now” button from their website, but with the help of an online website editor, you can easily add PayPal to your website, without having to know how to code.

PayPal also gives you the security you need, when it comes to handling other peoples money. Their sign up process is also very simple compared to setting up a merchant account. Where you might have to provide a lot of information, and expect to wait on one of the large credit card companies, PayPal requires less, and you can be up an running within a day or two.

They also don’t charge you huge monthly fees to use their service. If you sell something on your website, PayPal then will charge a small fee to you the website owner.

Adding PayPal To A Website

1. Set up a PayPal account, by visiting PayPal.com

2. Once you have set up your PayPal account, you can use an online website editor to simply add PayPal to your website. You could attempt to add PayPal to your website without an online website editor, but you’re going to have to jump through some technical hoops in order to do this. An online website editor makes it super easy. It will give you a button that you can sit in the tool bar of your browser.

This allows you to not only add PayPal to your website, but also edit your website in many other ways. You wont have to worry about downloading a software, or dealing with a bunch of code when trying to insert your PayPal code, as well as any other widget or change you would want to make to your website.

With an “Edit My Page” button in your browser, you can edit links, edit text, insert pictures, videos, calendars, analytics, and a host of other widgets to your website.

3. Once you decide where you want the PayPal button to be, just select the text box in the menu of your online website editor, and place your PayPal code there. You should now be able to preview your change. If you like what you see, click publish, and now you have a PayPal button on your website.

This is a safest and simplest way to add a PayPal button to your website.

PayPal, the leader in secure online transactions, has been teamed up with many reverse phone services because they know that you need a fast and easy transaction. In fact, almost all reverse lookups will include PayPal, or a similar payment form.

The problem with all of these reverse services having PayPal is you don’t know which one to use. Do you go for the least expensive? Do you go for the most popular? Do you try to find a directory that has the most information? Today we are going to answer those questions for you.

First off, almost every directory cost $14.95 for one reverse lookup. If it is any higher, you are paying to much and if it is any lower, you may not be receiving the correct information. Next, the most popular sites will include peoples names, addresses, criminal records, warrant searches, and much more. Not only that, they will contain peoples cell phone and line line information.

So know that you know how much it is going to cost and what services you should look for, the last thing we want to talk about is the reliability. Always be sure that the site has been updated within the last year or so. This will allow you to have updated information and ensure you that you are getting what you paid for. Last, always go through a company that contains support. Just in case something goes wrong, support should be their to assist you.

So take the time to find a reverse phone lookup and you will find what you are looking for.