Stripe Connect Custom with Direct Charges

Introduction & Scenario The scenario covers a reader (you!) that wants to: create a marketplace; take some fee on every transaction between users of its website/app and a connected vendor; guarantee a user-friendly experience for its vendors, in order to not let them front the procedures on the Stripe platform, but directly through its website/app … Continue Reading

how to format your Java code with eclipse, without opening eclise

Ok this is a very small post, but if you look for this information through Google, for example, it’s hard to find an easy and clear answer. And here it is. Assuming your eclipse path is /Applications/eclipse/eclipse, and the all the Java code (even in subdirectories) resides in /Users/lorenzo/sources/java_project/, the command is the following:   … Continue Reading

Pubs/Restaurants/”places” APIs comparison

I was looking for a free service providing access to pubs/restaurants/commercial activities providing basicallylatitude,longitude and a string representing the commercial activity and this is my experience: Google Places: A LOT of places are missing! TripAdvisor: you have to fill a form and wait for their approval, based on their own criteria..I don’t think we can … Continue Reading

The Happiness Diary – 0.9.2

Hey, good news right there! The Happiness Diary is already at the version 0.9.2 with awesome new features. The most important one is that we can finally check the statistics about our friends, sorted by score or by events number! Download it for free from the Play Store right now!

dlopen, dlsym & how to call a function of the libc library inside a function defined in your custom library with the same name.

(If you like articles title longer that the article itself, you’re on the right place.) As the subject of the article, here’s a brief piece of code to define a library with a function whose name is also in libc. In the example we want to call the libc time() function inside our time() function. … Continue Reading