Today I thought I’d write a little about how to test that a website looks and behaves consistently across a range of modern browsers, and how to correctly document the situations when it doesn’t. We’ll discuss issues that can complicate this, including different browser versions, and inconsistencies between operating system.
Converting between different currencies is a common problem on the web. It turns up most frequently for ecommerce systems, but it tends to rear its head anytime money changes hands. There’s a number of paid and free solutions out there, but sometimes you want something you can integrate more closely, or modify more easily.
I’ve written a small tool that aims to make your life easier when dealing with currency conversion in your own apps.
As I’ve recently completed (well almost) my first Facebook Application I thought it might be worthwhile writing up my lessons learnt, in the hope that they will help someone else. Initially I though this post would be a technical discussion of the features and limitations of the API itself, but as soon as I started looking over my notes I realised most of the useful things I’ve actually learnt aren’t actually technical. So here we go, gather ’round children.