e-Commerce 101

Building an e-Commerce Web site can be a lot of fun and very promising, but proper caution and forethought should be given before its deployment.  This class will walk you through fundamentals, examples and best practices, culminating over 5 years of Jason's work of administering and developing independent e-Commerce sites, such as MAOL.com and WritingForMoney.com as well as revenue-generating Web applications for QSRMagazine.com.

We'll talk about server preparations, security, database designs, checksums, revenue models and how to implement them, customer service and more.  We'll be using Perl for our examples and Verisign Payflow Pro as our e-Commerce gateway, though these concepts can be applied to other languages and gateways.

Presenter Bio:
Jason Purdy is the IT Manager for Journalistic, Inc., a publishing company in Durham, NC. Jason oversees all technical aspects and operations, but loves the time best when focused on developing Web applications, something he has been involved with since 1994. Jason graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a Mathematical Sciences degree (Computer Science track), written several technical articles for various publications (including Dr. Dobbs, Java Developers Journal, Visual J++ Journal) and has given similar technical presentations at conferences around the world (including OOP, Comdex, Java SIG, XML One and ApacheCon).