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LeBlanc

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About LeBlanc

https://www.andrewleblanc.net/

email: andrew AT everribbon DOT com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8170462

    It depends. The California Corporation Code states that merely residing in the state does not mean you are required to register as a foreign (out of state) LLC and pay the $800. If…

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    Comment #7774028

    Do you have the ability to execute JS on the parent page? If so, the easiest and most reliable way to do this is to use the postMessage API to send document.referrer from the paren…

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    Comment #7502940

    I would highly recommend that you contact the banks for whatever accounts the money went to. If you are able to prove fraud, you may be able to work with them to freeze the account…

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    Comment #7197689

    https://roadtrippers.com/ is a great tool for finding interesting food/locations along a google maps route.

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    Comment #6609242

    A lot of this research is going towards developing neuro-prosthetics. The primary application of neuro-prosthetics in humans is to give paraplegics either the ability to control a …

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    Comment #6575418

    ActiveMerchant is a good one for Rails: http://activemerchant.org/ There are a few for Django, but none that I know of that have the full range that ActiveMerchant does. Another op…

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    Comment #6529918

    There's not a lot you can to do prevent your site from being targeted by a DDoS attack. If you are unfortunate enough to get DDoS'd you probably have enough money to pay for a serv…

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    Comment #6460348

    Unfortunately, it is not that easy because you are just one part of a larger financial system and have to deal with horribly outdated banks, etc. I used to work at WePay and a lot …

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    Comment #5447243

    Here are some donation sites that let you set up donation pages for exactly this type of cause: https://www.gofundme.com https://www.fundly.com https://www.everribbon.com Good luck…

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    Comment #3853085

    Kohana is a very solid framework. The best parts about it are that the source is very readable and it's extremely easy to override the default behavior of many modules. I would str…

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    Comment #3331989

    Sorry, I should have made it more clear that with stripe you aren't liable for all of the PCI spec (I edited my comment to reflect that). Either way, I think Stripe is doing awesom…

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    Comment #3331918

    The external javascript library is still being loaded on a page served from your domain, so it's totally possible for you to grab the credit card data and ajax it to your server (o…

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    Comment #3331870

    I'm the lead API engineer at WePay, so I'm definitely biased toward the WePay API, but I do think Stripe is a great service. The WePay API does allow you to embed the entire checko…

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    Comment #3275213

    I highly recommend olark or a similar onsite live chat feature. olark is great because its much lower barrier of effort than email, so your customers often come with questions they…

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    Comment #3177845

    We do accept international credit cards, but unfortunately the person accepting money has to be in the United States. We're working hard to expand internationally though!

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    Comment #3177830

    Yes, we do plan to allow style customization for the iframe content fairly soon. What kind of styling would you want to apply to the iframe content?

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    Comment #3172418

    1) Yes, here are some marketplace type sites using the WePay API: http://bellstrike.com/ http://www.everribbon.com/ http://www.listcharming.com/ http://www.attendstar.com/ 2) You c…

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    Comment #3171007

    WePay built its API specifically to solve this problem: https://stage.wepay.com/developer/usecases/marketplace We allow easy account creation for your users, and you can charge you…

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    Comment #3138019

    In order to accept credit card information directly on your site, you need to be PCI compliant. This involves paperwork, and once you have significant volume, audits. WePay provide…

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    Comment #3114987

    One thing that works great is to build a sandbox tool that lets your users make real API calls with their credentials from your API documentation. Facebook, Stripe, and WePay have …

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    Comment #3088180

    WePay has a dead simple to use stores product and we just released a new API (with iframe checkouts - https://stage.wepay.com/developer ). Our goal is to be the 'anti-paypal' by pr…

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    Comment #3060380

    Palo Alto, CA WePay https://www.wepay.com/jobs - We're solving a real problem, making tons of money while doing it and are taking PayPal head on. Read our blog post about why we're…

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    Comment #2772244

    Cool app. You could integrate with the WePay API so that the person owed money could actually collect easily online. https://stage.wepay.com/developer

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    Comment #2722830

    For freelance billing of clients the best tool is probably WePay. You can send a bill (including recurring bills) to clients, and have a full list of all invoices and whether they'…