Shopify Engineering

Session Hijacking Protection

Session Hijacking Protection

There’s been a lot of talk in the past few weeks about “Firesheep”, a new program that lets users hijack other users’ accounts on many different websites. But there’s no...

Session Hijacking Protection

There’s been a lot of talk in the past few weeks about “Firesheep”, a new program that lets users hijack other users’ accounts on many different websites. But there’s no...

Shopify's path to Rails 3

Shopify's path to Rails 3

The TL;DR version Shopify recently upgraded to Rails 3! We saw minor improvements in overall response times but what we’re most happy with is the new API – it means...

Shopify's path to Rails 3

The TL;DR version Shopify recently upgraded to Rails 3! We saw minor improvements in overall response times but what we’re most happy with is the new API – it means...

ActiveMerchant version 1.9 released

ActiveMerchant version 1.9 released

A little bit of background history As some of you may know, quite a while ago Shopify extracted all of its payment gateway related code into the open source project...

ActiveMerchant version 1.9 released

A little bit of background history As some of you may know, quite a while ago Shopify extracted all of its payment gateway related code into the open source project...