Adobe flex + pay pal x = monetization of ria
Monetization of Cloud App
Cloud developers now have the new Payment Platform- "PayPal X" to monetize the app on the cloud. To kick start the process, PayPal has releasing a new open source APEX Toolkit for Force.com platform (Salesforce Application Platform) that can used by Salesforce developers to consume both Adaptive Payments and Adaptive Account APIs in their enterprise and consumer application built on Force.com platform.
The "Getting started with Force.com for PayPal X Payments Platform" and "Using Force.com for PayPal X Payments Platform" docs will help you install the toolkit into your developer environment and provides information about various classes and objects that you can use to enable payments in your Force.com applications. The toolkit hides all the complexity that one would need to worry about when making web services calls from Force.com platform. This allows you as a developer to concentrate more on your application and worry less about payments and integrating with the Adaptive Payments and Accounts APIs.
Next comes IBM Cloud, IBM Cloud Labs [1][2] providing PayPal X Developers a way to quickly build, deploy and monetize applications on the IBM Cloud.The PayPal X image for the IBM SMART Business Development and Test Cloud environment provides an easy way for Java developers to quickly get started with the PayPal’s Adaptive Payment APIs. The image provides a few sample apps along with the PayPal Adaptive Payments & Accounts Java SDK and a fully integrated development environment using Eclipse IDE and Tomcat connector. This allows developers to quickly create an instance on the IBM cloud, experiment with the sample apps, make code changes, or add new functionality to suit their business needs.
Continuing PayPals efforts to make Payments easy for developer building and running application on the cloud, now have a new java toolkit for Google App Engine available on Google Code (yes Open Source!). You can find the project on Google Code under the project name "paypalx-gae-toolkit" (http://code.google.com/p/paypalx-gae-toolkit/).
The toolkit provides the support for the Adaptive Payments APIs (Pay, Preapproval, PaymentDetails, PreapprovalDetails, Refund and CurrencyConversion operations). It's built using the HTTP-NVP binding utilizing the Google App Engine's URL fetch service. In addition to the support for the Adaptive Payment APIs, which are really the building blocks exposed through our PayPal X Global Payments Platform
Now monetization of a cloud app is just an X away..!
reference: X.com
Ubuntu 10.10 - Maverick Meerkat
Updated Packages
As with every new release, packages--applications and software of all kinds--are being updated at a rapid pace. Many of these packages came from an automatic sync from Debian's Unstable branch. The period of automatic syncs has stopped now, so from now on there will be fewer changes.
For a list of all packages being accepted for 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, please subscribe to maverick-changes:
GNOME
The GNOME base platform has been updated to the current 2.31 versions. This particularly includes the new dconf and gsettings API. Evolution was updated to the 2.30 version, which operates much faster compared to the version in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
KDE
KDE was updated to the current 4.5 RC 1 release.
Qt
Qt was updated to the current 4.7 beta release.
Unity
The new Unity interface is now the default in Ubuntu Netbook Edition. This includes the global menu bar as part of the default interface. Please note that applications still retain the menu in their own window as long as the global menu bar is still being tested and fixed.
Linux kernel 2.6.35
Alpha 2 includes the 2.6.35-6.7 kernel based on 2.6.35-rc3.
This kernel includes new security enhancements. Of major note is the change the default behavior of PTRACE which is used by gdb, strace, ltrace, etc. The behavior for 10.10 is that only child processes can be PTRACEd, due to the default value of "1" in/proc/sys/kernel/ptrace_scope. This value may be inappropriate for some development systems and servers with only admin accounts. If using "sudo" for PTRACE is not desired, please change this value to "0".
New cloud-init features
cloud-init, the configurable initialization process for Ubuntu Server cloud images, has gained new features in Maverick Alpha 2, including pluggable hooks, ebsmount, ext4 support, and new stanzas in the cloud-config format.
Installation
The new btrfs file system may now be used during installation via manual partitioning, as long as /boot is on some other file system. (At the moment, this only works on the alternate and server CDs.)
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