interestingly, it seems the best revenue generator for the traffic department is fines. it further seems that much like any receiver of revenue (SARS, or IRS, or IRAS) invests in technology to ensure they capture every Rand, Cent and Dollar; so does our traffic department. anybody who drives will have registered at PayFine (http://www.payfine.co.za), a useful service that notifies you via email when you've picked up new fines; log into the website and "tada" ... your car in a picture, possibly even with a mug shot :)))

why this topic arose, apart from PayFine being around for a few years now, is that now the banks have made it even more convenient to settle these fines... and while PayFine has credit card facilities, the banks added an extra obvious tab for this "new feature"))) how can one refuse to challenge the fine when there are so many easy ways to just pay up...

Struggled with this code for some time, was not clear why the server was returning a 500 internal error message...and as it turns out, I still (obviously) needed to TokenSign my oAuth POST prior to submission. The code that did the trick is:

   var session = new OAuthSession(consumerContext, requestUrl, userAuthorizeUrl, accessUrl);
   ConsumerRequest context = session.Request();
   context.Post().ForUrl("https://rightsignature.com/api/documents.xml").WithFormParameters(new {
          xml = strXML }).SignWithToken();

This beautiful piece of complex underlying handshaking worked like a dream, and successfully returned the GUID I'm now using to track the document through the internal workflow.

Weird, logged into RightReply to have a look at their service. Thought it might be simple and easy to run a feedback system off a cloud service; but to my surprise found the Admin tab revealing a whole bunch of foreign email addresses. None of these were familar, and mine was also in the list raising some concern :S Unsure what the data represents but it looks like a "for each" loop that published more data than it should.

2am, very annoyed.

Tobias is over for just a weekend to South Africa. We met up at 6pm to catch up on 5 years of time gone by, and then enjoyed the company of about 8 more common friends. He also noted that he is comfortably (and safely) settled is Munich, near by our good friend Mark: both of which families relocated back to Europe (good bye to SA tax revenue on all my German peers fleeing back to Europe). While I would have loved to detail the evening, party at QBar, and finale at Billy The Bums, what now stuck was the non-constructive waste of time harassment of two cops.

The were SAPD, pulled me aside at a traffic light for making my way home at 2am and wanted to 'inspect if the situation was in order'. Of course, I don't smoke, no drugs, no speeding nor reckless driving; but seemingly merely wanted money. Considering that any free cash earns near 10% in a home loan facility, I'd be silly to carry any cash at all if I can pay by cards instead; and so merely handed the nice corrupt South African officers my last remaining R30 (Eur3) and they made their merry way.

Annoyed because I asked them to write a fine (for whatever the offence) and let me settle within the legal framework; but that seems to be less common nowerdays. They couldn't produce a fine book.

Wow, amazing that Intdev won the SugarCRM projec of the month!! We developed an open source module to enhance the functionality of SugarCRM to send SMS messages, both single and bulk.

Check out our project at SugarForge at http://www.sugarforge.com/projects/intdevsms