Month: April 2010

Paypal vs PaypalUk in Magento

Magento 里有两个有关 Paypal 支付的模块：Paypal and PaypalUk。我尚未查到文档有关它们的区别，只知道 PaypalUK 依赖于 Paypal，在同时启用 Paypal and PaypalUk 时，后台可以看到

Configuration Paypal section when PaypalUk is enabled

Configuration Payment Methods section when PaypalUk is enabled

若不启用 PaypalUk 模块，后台变成：

Configuration Paypal section when PaypalUk is disabled

Configuration Payment Methods section when PaypalUk is disabled

对比可见后台多了 Payflow Edition，估计 PaypalUk 是面向开发者的称呼，Payflow 是面向普通用户的称呼。更多区别还有待摸索。

April 1, 2010
OpenPassword
Inspired by OpenId, I want to start a project – OpenPassword.

What is it for?
People are hesitate to register themselves from site to site. One of the reasons is people are afraid of giving password to the web sites they do not trust much. Most people do not have big memory, so they have to use the same password for all web sites. They may or may not aware that any webmaster / web owner who has access to the password database could try the same password on other sites (or even worse – for online banking). Whether people’s passwords are in safe depends on how honest the webmaster / web owner is. Even the webmaster / web owner is honest, does he have basic skills to keep password in safe? I see a lot of web sites save passwords unencrypted, which could be a disaster.

OpenId comes to solve this problem. But currently not all web sites support OpenId. What if you are in a position you have to use some web sites which do not support OpenId? You have to take care of security yourself. My proposal is:
1. You register different web sites with different passwords.
2. The passwords are generated with one-way encryption.
3. You host encryption algorithm and salt in a safe place, so you do not need remember the passwords. Every time you need them, you generate / retrieve them on the fly.
April 1, 2010
Dispatched events on a simple Magento homepage

每访问一次我一个并不复杂的 Magento 站点主页，将会触发多少个事件？我记了下来：

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April 1, 2010