Translating Geek Into English
To wrap things up on my eight-part series on processing payments with Stripe, I’ll mention a few random things under the guise of testing and tricks. Most of the information will only make sense if you already understand how processing payments with Stripe works (i.e., if you’ve read the entire series).
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It’s the beginning of a new year, which makes it an apt time to talk about resolutions. But I’m not really a resolutions kind of person. Instead of resolutions, I prefer goals, specifically work goals. (And by “prefer”, I mean that it’s something I’ve finally started purposefully thinking about in the past couple of years.) I often get asked about what kinds of things developers should learn, so a good portion of this newsletter will be goals you could set towards that end. You’ll also find links to my 2013 goals, and a recap of how well my 2012 resolutions, er, goals, were met.
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Jared M. Spool, a renown UI and UX expert, just posted a great article titled “Devising a Strategy for Responsive Design”. In the article, Mr. Spool covers the current issues surrounding designing web sites responsibly (and responsively) for today’s environment, devices, and destinations. Not only does Mr. Spool talk about just the technologies involved, he also explains how some of these issues have further implications on other aspects of a site, such as content management. It’s a sufficiently thorough and well-explained article that’s definitely worth your time if you want to get up to speed on the issues surrounding web design today.
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If you’ve sequentially followed this series on implementing payments with Stripe, you now know everything you need to be processing payments with Stripe today. In theory. This series, the six posts to this point, has already walked through all of the code needed for the system to work, assuming everything does work. Which is to say I have yet to explain how to watch for and handle the errors and problems that will inevitably occur. That’s the focus in this post.
Note that this article assumes that you have read the previous articles and are comfortable with PHP.
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NetTuts+ recently posted a very good article titled “10 New Year’s Resolutions Every Web Developer Should Make”. Written by Andrew Burgess, the article goes through ten recommendations every Web developer should consider (as you would imagine from the title).
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