CiviCRM ProtX Payment Processor (alpha)
Earlier this month, our good friend and colleague Phillip Smith asked me if I'd be interested in taking on a small chunk of work for New Internationalist, who are in the process of getting an online donation mechanism up and running.
The task turned out to be writing up a "custom" payment processor module to interface NI's online donation site with their ProtX Payment Service Provider. Initially, we thought it would be simplest to implement a small, one-off PHP/Perl script to accomplish this as quickly as possible, but soon recognized that it would be a much better use of my time (and NI's investment) to work up a payment processor plugin for the increasingly powerful CiviCRM package.
2008: The Year of the Platform
Now that 2008 has officially arrived, we are eagerly pulling all our existing sites consolidated onto our platform infrastructure, freeing ourselves from (some of) the nightmares of ongoing maintenance and security updates, while we ramp up some new development projects for this year.
Meantime, I've been having some interesting conversations with others in the local drupal community, and eagerly watching the latest developments from a couple of projects related to the Anarres Drupal Platform: AutoPilot and HostMaster 2.