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Best PracticesCultureVersion Control at FoxyCart
Here at FoxyCart our business is code. And, as anyone who’s written code in the last 10 years knows, version control systems are the best place to ke...
CultureWe Took a Risk with Bitcoin. Should You?
In April of 2013, we started supporting Bitcoin on our platform (and accepting it as payment ourselves). It was a risk because Bitcoin was (and still...
Best PracticesCultureSecurityThe Myths of PCI Compliance: A “PCI Compliant Box”
One of the “perks” of being a PCI Level 1 Service Provider is that we often get asked about becoming PCI compliant by friends and acquaintances. Ofte...
CultureThought Leadership or Wishful Thinking?
Almost 2 years ago, I set out to learn what a REST API really is. Speaking with Brett Florio, my co-founder, we talked about how few visible REST API...
CultureHackathons for Remote Teams: Our First Attempt
As a programmer, I love not having to make excuses for how much I enjoy my craft. I don’t have to explain why developers, designers, and programmers ...
Best PracticesCultureSecurityIn which we talk security
If I told you, “you can protect your business with just ONE minute per week,” you’d do whatever I said, wouldn’t you? Well, I’m going to give you tha...
CultureWhy Does FoxyCart Support Bitcoin?
I started researching Bitcoin a couple months ago. As the core developer of a shopping cart provider, I’m very interested in all forms of payment pro...
CultureHypermedia Dog Food
As you may know, we’ve been working really hard behind the scenes on a completely redesigned REST (or Hypermedia) API. We had a lot of debate on whic...
CultureShout Out to FoxyCart Merchants We Patronize
One of the comments we’ve heard a few times from FoxyCart developers goes something along the lines of… I actually like testing the FoxyCart checkout...