Yardsnap Ltd. and Google Checkout
Woweee! A day or two ago Aaron registered Yardsnap with Companies House, so now I am one of three legal directors for Yardsnap Ltd. along with Aaron and Shazz. Exciting stuff (I just have to make sure the guys keep the Inland Revenue happy and it’ll be fine. 
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The super-duper brand new shiny website is coming along. It’s nice to see it finally take shape and work as a whole instead of being a mishmash of random components. Still a lot of work left, but with 5 weeks to go before I enter the world of full time work I think I can just about squeeze it in.
Today I implemented the first stage of the shopping cart using phpgcheckout. For those of you who don’t know, phpgcheckout is an “Open Source PHP Google Checkout Toolkit”, that is, on the whole, very easy to use.
The second stage is implementing a GC callback web service that can receive messages from GC and update our database. This is going to be harder. phpgcheckout has all the code available to use, but it’s pretty poorly documented and I could only find one example online which was a bit hardcore. When I figure it out I’ll post an example here for all to see.
Watch this space.