Damn you eBay for making me wait

When today started a few hours ago, it was looking as if I was about 5 solid hours of programming away from wrapping up the majority of the Detailed Image site. Sure there are some minor things, but the largest and most important functions - shipping integration and credit card processing - are nearing completion.

After spending last week painfully integrating the FedEx and USPS API's (waaaaaay harder than they should be to work with), I was excited to wrap up the boring-but-important stuff with the credit card processing. Yesterday I handled all of the cards (AMEX, Visa, Mastercard, etc) and got them working in a test environment, so the last piece of the large puzzle today is to enable customers to pay with their PayPal balance.

Well, the day started off with Skype's outage (still down as of this writing). Skype is our main form of communication as a company, so it definitely puts a damper on things. "No worries" I said to myself, because I'll just wrap up my programming. Of course it couldn't be that easy. Freaking PayPal's Sandbox testing environment is down too. What are the odds! Then I remembered eBay owns them both. Wtf is going on? Two major services like this should never be down for this long...particularly when I need them!

I suppose I'll go work on something else for a little while. It's so frustrating though - I've been programming this site since the beginning of July and today I thought I'd wrap up the big stuff. Guess not.