http://jpos.org/blog jPOS rants, propaganda and some useful stuff. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:30:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en /by apr/ We regularly receive requests from PEP members willing to engage jPOS-savvy consultants. From small consulting gigs to full time on-site and remote positions, there are always great opportunities here and there. You can send your CV to jobs at jPOS dot org (for utmost confidentiality, you can send it to me ... http://jpos.org/blog/2008/06/16/jpos-careers/ /by apr on show business/ Andy and Dave from Online Strategies had a great idea, payment systems related podcasts, and here is Episode #1! In this first episode, they describe how they have migrated a big application from a legacy platform to their jPOS based OLS.Switch. http://jpos.org/blog/2008/06/12/payment-systems-podcast-episode-1/ /by apr on this-is-what-I'm-doing-now/ During my long (I wish I could say short) life as a programmer I've been writing the same kind of applications over and over and over. Every time a given application goes live, I immediately start writing it again under my budget in what I think could ... http://jpos.org/blog/2008/06/10/jcard-and-jpts/ /by apr/ Ditto. See the ChangeLog for details. The new development version is now 1.6.3. http://jpos.org/blog/2008/05/25/jpos-162-has-been-released/ /by apr on kudos/ The jPOS team @ CS has certified the new VISA Business Enhancements April 2008 at one of our jPOS sites today and is working on a second site. This is not a big deal and not worth a blog post, but we got word that this is the ... http://jpos.org/blog/2008/03/28/visa-business-enhancements/ /by apr/ Reading the Payment Systems blog I came accross this other excellent PCI answers blog. After reading Trust but verify your POS system I got to re-read the list of validated payment applications. The PABP requirement #1 clearly says: Do not retain full magnetic stripe, card validation code or value (CAV2, ... http://jpos.org/blog/2008/02/29/trust-but-verify-your-version-number/ /by apr on recommendations/ My friend and jPOS developer Dave (CISSP, CISA) has a new blog: Payment Systems Blog We are working with him, Andy and the OLS team in some changes to jPOS-EE and their OLS.Switch required for PABP certification (actually they are doing most of the work, which is great, ... http://jpos.org/blog/2008/02/03/payment-systems-blog/ /by apr/ For those of you thinking that your special application needs an extremely high performance engine, and you are not sure if jPOS can handle it, here is a nice post that basically says in a polite way that probably YAGNI!. When you ask if jPOS can handle your load you ... http://jpos.org/blog/2007/12/06/yagni/ /by apr/ The Free Software Foundation has released the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL v3.0), a license we've been waiting for a long time that will allow us to open source more code such as the jCard (our Card Management System) and jPTS (an ISO-8583/2003 based jPOS Transaction Switch) projects. We ... http://jpos.org/blog/2007/11/21/agplv3/ /by apr on propaganda jPOS speed/ While reading about how Open Source is essencial to Paypal's success I was impressed to see Paypal processes about U$S 1500 every second of every day and that's only 10 times bigger than some of our jPOS sites running in a couple of Intel ... http://jpos.org/blog/2007/10/23/only-10-times-bigger/