Taking other people's money: The state of payments in Australia - Ben Cull | DDD Melbourne - SSW TV - Learn from Professional Software Developers

In the presentation, Ben Cull shows developers the best ways to take other people’s money, whether it be for a large client or your own side project. He talks about the history of online payment processing, the regulations for developers, the pros and cons of Stripe, Paypal, Pin Payments and Alipay including an assessment of their APIs. He even throw in some code demos to show you how to get up and running fast.

DDD Melbourne is a non profit community event run by developers, for developers. SSW TV sponsored the event by recording the sessions. SSW TV regularly sponsors DDD events all over Australia, so check out other DDD related videos on this site.

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About the speakers

Mr Stripe

SSW Solution Architect, Ben Cull builds web applications that are lightning fast and dressed to impress. Having such a strong background in C# and SQL Server also allows him to create complex systems that run behind the scenes. In his spare time you'll find him having a cold beer and tinkering with the latest technologies.

He is currently building some Windows Phone and Windows 8 applications. Ben is the Co-Founder of TBODA, a group of 4 QUT graduates who create cool new web apps for fun. Specialties: Web Development, Websites, Web Applications, Software as a Service

You can check out Ben's awesome Beer brewing YouTube Channel 'Mash Hacks'

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