Tuesday, September 10, 2002

The reason that I had to write a PayPal backend is that the publication of Thinking in C# has been delayed until something very close to the end of the year. The reasons have nothing to do with the content of the book, which is very frustrating, but these things happen. In the meantime, I'm planning on experimenting with charging for a downloadable pre-publication version from www.ThinkingIn.NET. The free preview generated on the order of 100,000 downloads over the past five months, so I hope that by charging people a few dollars for the download of a complete, 1000-page, 300-working programs text, I can generate, oh, I don't know, $20 or so. 5:21:35 PM    comment []

I just wrote a C#-backed ASP.NET PayPal backend. I'm not going to post it because it was so trivial that I just made it totally custom to my needs. Wow, C# rocks, ASP.NET rocks, and this is an indication of why Web Services rock (even though the PayPal back-end is HTTP POST instead of a decent SOAP call). Less than an hour between "Is this possible?" and a functioning mini-payment scheme. 5:15:26 PM    comment []