new tipfy based site

[Ron]

just launched www.audiogo.co.uk

used tipfy framework
with auth, jinja2, wtforms and session extensions

thank you Rodrigo and others involved in project

[Jesaja Everling]

Cool, thanks for sharing! :)
The site looks great, i especially like the clean design. And the way
you use Javascript, to make navigation easier with unobtrusive
effects.
So you basically created an online shopping system using tipfy?
Any chance of sharing relevant parts of the source with the public? I
understand when you would rather not, but it would be a shame not to
ask.

Best Regards,

Jesaja Everling

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[Jesaja Everling]

I just wanted give feedback that i did a purchase through the site,
and everything worked flawlessly. Only the filename of the download
file was a bit cryptic, but who cares.
How did you solve full-text search btw?

Best Regards,

Jesaja Everling

[Rodrigo Moraes]

On Oct 7, 9:23 am, Ron wrote:
> just launchedwww.audiogo.co.uk

>
> used tipfy framework
> with auth, jinja2, wtforms and session extensions
>
> thank you Rodrigo and others involved in project

Woot, it looks awesome. Thanks for sharing. Tweeted! :)

-- rodrigo

[Col Wilson]

Sweet, bookmarked.

[Ron]

can't take any credit for the design, it was a design house that did
it, we took the html and layered it on top of app engine / tipfy

the filename (or the url anyway) had to be crytic as it is unique for
purchaser and item combination

the full text is coming from Solr on a different server, using the
same model as Google's own all for good project,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10321751-16.html

think it is the only easy way to index over 8000 titles

yes, have no problems sharing the shopping cart code, will do a write
up somewhere about it when I have time, right now, straight onto 2nd
phase!!!

thanks for the +ve feedback

On Oct 7, 2:19 pm, Jesaja Everling <jeverl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just wanted give feedback that i did a purchase through the site,
> and everything worked flawlessly. Only the filename of the download
> file was a bit cryptic, but who cares.
> How did you solve full-text search btw?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jesaja Everling
>

> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Jesaja Everling <jeverl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Cool, thanks for sharing! :)
> > The site looks great, i especially like the clean design. And the way
> > you use Javascript, to make navigation easier with unobtrusive
> > effects.
> > So you basically created an online shopping system using tipfy?
> > Any chance of sharing relevant parts of the source with the public? I
> > understand when you would rather not, but it would be a shame not to
> > ask.
>
> > Best Regards,
>
> > Jesaja Everling
>

> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ron <ronsterc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> just launchedwww.audiogo.co.uk

[Jesaja Everling]

Cool, thanks for the insight on Solr and i'm really looking forward to
the write up! :)

Best Regards,

Jesaja Everling

[Ron]

Jesaja

Just noticed your order email and the address with German characters,
as I get a copy of all the confirmation emails.

I actually had a problem with that with the first few German orders
coming back from Paypal and had to do a address_line.decode('utf-8')
to it to make it work.

Is this normal?

Thanks
Ron

On Oct 7, 4:16 pm, Jesaja Everling <jeverl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool, thanks for the insight on Solr and i'm really looking forward to
> the write up! :)
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jesaja Everling
>

[Jesaja Everling]

Hi Ron,

i think this makes sense. I haven't used the paypal API myself yet,
but apparently it returns the values as url-encoded utf-8 characters.
It seems you can tell paypal which character set to use:

"Setting the Character Set – charset
You can use the charset HTML variable to specify the character set or
character encoding of the data you collect in your website forms and
send to PayPal. PayPal sends data to you in the same character set or
encoding you specify with the charset variable. For example, the
following INPUT tag sets the encoding to UTF-8:

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="charset" value="utf-8">"
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_html_formbasics

I think they probably use utf-8 as default if this variable isn't set.
After decoding the URL-string, you end up with an utf8-encoded
bytestring, and still have to convert it to unicode using
"".decode('utf-8').

Best Regards,

Jesaja Everling

[Ron]

Jesaja

Thanks for that. Hope you enjoy the book :)

Ron

On Oct 7, 5:36 pm, Jesaja Everling <jeverl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> i think this makes sense. I haven't used the paypal API myself yet,
> but apparently it returns the values as url-encoded utf-8 characters.
> It seems you can tell paypal which character set to use:
>
> "Setting the Character Set – charset
> You can use the charset HTML variable to specify the character set or
> character encoding of the data you collect in your website forms and
> send to PayPal. PayPal sends data to you in the same character set or
> encoding you specify with the charset variable. For example, the
> following INPUT tag sets the encoding to UTF-8:
>

> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="charset" value="utf-8">"https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=de...

[Ron]

just a quick update on this

over the past weekend we had over 6000 signups and downloads (each
100MB) due to a free promotion they did with a couple of UK
newspapers. These downloads are served from the Google Apps
blobstores.

for those with children the promos run to 31st Oct here are the links

http://www.audiogo.co.uk/observer-railwaychildren

http://www.audiogo.co.uk/guardian-junglebook

Ron