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The past few days I’ve been finishing up an ecommerce application and the last pieces of the puzzle were to enable a customer to update his recurring billing info and also be able to cancel their recurring billing.

When developing for the Authorize.net payment gateway, each developer is assigned their own unique login credentials but we all share the same development account. So, in the past, you could login and see all of the developers transactions as well. I say in the past because we can’t get in anymore. On Monday, I made some updates to my code base and went to test it out and all of the sudden I am receiving a receipt from Authorize.net about my purchase (which as a developer you typically don’t receive) and the from email address isn’t even Authorize.net’s. It is some other developer who went in and made changes to the single developer account that everyone shares! So anyone testing authorize.net right now are all getting emails from deepak.jain@somedomain.com. And my new friend Deepak is also getting emails from authorize.net every time I update a subscription; he is CC’d on them.

So, I tried to login and change whatever Deepak messed with, but now I cannot login. WTF?! Let me put a call out to Deepak now.

HEY DEEPAK!! FIX THE ACCOUNT SETTINGS PLEASE!

While it is annoying that Deepak went in and made those changes that affects every single authorize.net developer, I can’t put the blame on Deepak. Seriously Authorize.net, why can this even be possible? Each developer should ideally be able to manage their own settings. We are pushing YOUR product and writing reusable code that we freely distribute to integrate YOUR gateway into people’s website. We like you… really, we do. Make it a little bit easier for us so next time Deepak, who refers to himself as the elusive “test test”, wants to change his settings, it isn’t global.

Deron over at Random Jabber has just launched a new site, NiceStylesheet. This is a new CSS Gallery site, which I think will be rivaling some of the larger ones soon enough!

So how is this different from the rest? I think it is the simplicity. The design of the site itself is very clean and simple, giving focus to the featured designs rather than on the site itself. He’s got a couple of my favorite blogs listed already: Jarkko Laine and snook.

Do you have what it takes to be featured? Submit your design now!

Everyone knows I’m on a never-ending quest to get more organized and become more productive. It’s a new project/task management app that works online but also integrates with Outlook.

I read about this over at Read/WriteWeb and seeing as though I haven’t found a good solution yet, I figured I would try this out.

This obviously isn’t an endorsement as I haven’t used it yet, so why am I telling you? Well, ActionThis is offering R/WW readers a coupon code to try it out. No, I’m not going to post it here, you need to head over and read their review of it. They are giving away a premium membership to the first 1000 members who come from R/WW. Yes, I successfully got in. If you don’t have a need for this, don’t sign up and save the coupon for someone else. If you need a little help with your web projects and getting organized, then by all means, sign up!

get stuff done. go home early.

That is their slogan, let’s hope it works for me! Drop me a note if you do sign up!

With all of the google news and decisions lately, I found seeing this pop up in adsense a little bit ironic…

Since they are trying to really discourage link buying, shouldn’t they also police themselves?

I just read this great article and wanted to share it with you guys: 10 Signs that you shouldn’t be a developer.

From the article:

• You’d rather be trained than self-teach
• You like regular working hours
• You prefer regular raises to job-hopping
• You are easily frustrated

I agree with all 10 of them there. Are there any you disagree with or is there any that you would add?