PayPal API related links

SDKs https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/paypal-sdk-index

Main Page: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal

PayPal Labs integration wizard - not sure how good code this tool produces, but it's worth checking out https://www.paypal-labs.com/integrationwizard/ecpaypal/main.php

Getting started with Express Checkout https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/express-checkout/integration-guide/ECGettingStarted

A very good overview of the PayPal API options http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42894/Introduction-to-PayPal-for-C-ASP-NET-developers

Good tutorial using the web services API http://blog.effectlabs.com/post/2011/11/07/Paypal-Express-Checkout-with-C-using-Paypal-web-services.aspx

How to view SOAP messages http://blog.encoresystems.net/articles/how-to-capture-soap-envelopes-when-consuming-a-web-service.aspx

Some more paypal SDKs from their Australia site https://cms.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/library_download_sdks

A very simple tutorial that illustrates the basic points, although it does not go to the advanced functionality, but it is useful if we want to get a first feel quickly http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article928-online-payments-using-paypal-integration-with-aspnet.aspx

encodo coding standards and git quick start guide

http://encodo.com/en/documents.php

very well written, worth a read

RESTful web service with MVC 3 and fiddler for testing

good article here, also showing how to use fiddler to test the web service: http://www.iwantmymvc.com/rest-service-mvc3

some other good links:

video 15 min on MVC 2 http://www.asp.net/mvc/videos/mvc-2/how-do-i/how-do-i-return-json-formatted-data-for-an-ajax-call-in-an-aspnet-mvc-web-application

More focus on error handling http://www.binary-studio.com/2010/4/22/building-a-custom-json-web-service-with-aspnet-mvc

More focus on AJAX access http://msprogrammer.serviciipeweb.ro/2011/12/05/jquery-ajax-request-and-mvcdetailed/

Another simple example: http://juristr.com/blog/2011/08/posting-json-data-to-aspnet-mvc-3-web/

Almost 2 hours long video, haven't watched it yet but should be comprehensive overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRhyn45o3qE

This one uses the web API https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t090py6b0lM

wiki editor word

use this microsoft addon to be able to save word files for wiki in wikimedia format

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12298

IoC

https://simpleinjector.codeplex.com/

http://www.palmmedia.de/Blog/2011/8/30/ioc-container-benchmark-performance-comparison

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21288/which-net-dependency-injection-frameworks-are-worth-looking-into

http://www.devtrends.co.uk/blog/how-not-to-do-dependency-injection-the-static-or-singleton-container

https://timross.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/creating-a-simple-ioc-container/

http://netmvc.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/dependency-injection-in-aspnet-mvc-4.html

some great free icons:

large variety of 16x16 png files: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/


Higher quality icons: 256x256 arranged by theme: http://www.proicons.com/icon_collections.htm

Web page speed check and optimisation

There are at least 3 places where one can check a web page speed, and obtain various recommendations regarding ways to improve page load time:

Google Page Speed Insights

YSlow and here the original yahoo site, with tips on site performance. Firefox addon is available too.

Webpagetest which offers the ability to select a different location for the test and different browsers.

These are certainly useful tools when it comes to web page loading times improvement and optimisation.