The Johnson Blog

Ramblings of a geek with a few hobbies…

Author: eajhnsn1

  • Bye Bye SWREG

    A little over a year ago I posted about Payment Processors for taking payment for Chef. Shortly thereafter I went ahead and signed up and integrated with SWREG.  Over the past year I have been pretty happy with them regarding the capabilities they provided, as well as their prices – I’ve been able to accept payments for Chef licenses and successfully ship new customers their registration keys without any intervention on my part.

    So why Bye Bye SWREG?  It has come to my attention that they have started doing some shady (at best) things.  In short, they try to upsell my new customers into buying something unrelated to my software – that charges a $9-$10/month recurring fee.  And they make it look like it’s me doing the selling.  I’m ashamed to say that I learned of this just a few months ago but hadn’t gotten around to switching everything out to a competing service.

    Well that changed this weekend.  After some shopping around and some coding, I am now a (trial) user of E-Junkie and have accounts setup and working with both PayPal and Google Checkout.  I hope that I’ve tested everything as thoroughly as I feel like I have and don’t delay getting any new Chef customers their registration keys!

    SWREG and Digital River – goodbye and good riddance.  You’ll be getting no more commission fees from me.   To anyone using Digital River for eCommerce – I urge you to take your money elsewhere.

  • Unit Testing

    I would love some input on this from you fellow developers out there, as this is something I continue to try and improve on… WARNING, CODE BELOW THE BREAK!

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  • Month 3 Photos

    For this month’s shoot I pulled out the blue backdrop Ana and I made.  Worked well!

    View the set in Gallery.

  • Point Two Five

    Happy 0.25, David!

    He’s all dressed for his paintball party this afternoon. I just need to round up his friends and make sure they’re free.  Max??

  • Proof Of Legs

    In an effort to stop the conspiracy theorists, I present Proof of Legs.

    No worries, no harm was done to David in the making.  Although rolling around in the dirt was fun!

  • Hey Aunt Maria…

    I like the clothes!

  • Coffee.

    I ran out this morning. And you know who I blame it on? Justin Long. A few weeks ago he came over and had coffee before heading to work. Without that visit I would have had a full dose this morning. But instead, I now have 1/3 of a dose.

    Thanks Justin.

  • Blanket

    A couple weeks ago Ana made David a few more blankets since the previous batch were now getting a little small to wrap him up. I helped pick out some of the fabric, as you can see in the photo here 🙂

  • Unsolicited Delivery

    Fedex stopped by my house this morning and dropped off 2 very large boxes and 2 small but heavy boxes, all with my name and address on them.  Hmmm, I didn’t order anything….

    I opened them up and discovered two 3000VA, rack-mountable battery backups along with 110lbs of batteries for them.  Neat!

    I called up the company, which I had purchased from almost a year to the day, and let them know that someone was probably missing a shipment.  They thanked me and let me know that it was destined for an Eric Johnson in Utah.  Kinda scary their shipping system just matched on name, I wonder who else is getting free toys but not telling anyone about them?

    I had to drag the boxes back out to my porch, Fedex is supposed to be by to pick them back up.  They had better be quick or they’ll be covered in snow.

  • “Dad… help…”

    He was having fun, we swear!