Re: E-Commerce Monks

[derby]

I always thought most of the monks here do e-commerce work. That's one of the main reasons I posted the GnuPG tutorial and it's also the reason why I read (and re-read and re-read and will probably read again) perrin's great EToys article and Salon's Industrial Strength Publishing

Like tachyon noted, the only real difficult part of e-commerce is the CC architecture and even that's not terribly difficult with the good work Ivan and others are doing with Business::OnlinePayment. The tough part there is working through the business side of the house to set up the necessary partnerships (payment gateway, clearing-house, and bank).

So I say, use perlmonks as your forum for e-commerce. Post your questions, meditations, and snippets here. Even if there not purely perl, I think most monks would see value in meditations on e-commerce especially if it clears the haze that surrounds credit card processing - anyone up for doing a meditation that compares and contrast payment gateways?

-derby

[drewbie]

Thanks for the link to the Salon paper! I believe it is talking about the predecessor of Bricolage. My biggest problem with understanding how Bricolage worked was wrapping my head around the workflows, and this paper set me straight.

I also re-read Perrin's eToys paper again for good measure. Many thanks to Perrin for publishing the paper in the first place. "Ooooh oooh ooooh ahhhh ooooh...." I always loved those commercials... :-)

[Alexander]

Thank you for staying with the spirit of my initial post. I have another question to throw in. What do people like to implement? As in their own SSL or a gateway? HTML, SSI, PHP, CGI, etc. And what about databases? Flatfile, SQL (which SQL? mySQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle?), ODBM, no datbase?

I just happen to think there's alot of interesting opinions to explore

[derby]

I think most monks here begin with LAMP where the P is not PHP and not Python but Perl. For more detailed yet open ended discussions, you may want to consider attending your local perl mongers group.

-derby

[Alexander]

Yet another acronym to add to my vocabulary. I too would fall into the LAMP category.

Excerpt from derby's link

...a LAMP platform, consisting of Linux+Apache+MySQL+Perl.

Of course, there are plenty of excellent open source variants for any of the pieces of LAMP. Let the L stand for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Darwin/Mac OS X, all of which are open source operating systems and all but the latter have open source GUI layers. Let the M stand for MySQL and PostGreSQL. Let the P stand for PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby.

Personally I use FreeBSD+Apache+mySQL+Perl.

To my surprise I found 2 perl monger groups. One in Springfield about 70 miles away, and the other in Conway about 120 miles away. Thats better than I would have expected.

Good suggestions derby. Good for me, and good for many others here I am sure.