Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I'm still working away slowly at Spider.my, and spotted a funny loop in the search suggestions:
[caption id="attachment_117" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Search for Teusday - how about Thursday?"][/caption]The helpful hint is "maybe 'thursday' would get more results?". I'm using a simple Levenshtein distance algorithm to provide hints when only a few results ...
Posted in Search, software, Spider.my | 26 Comments »
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
My old-style shipping modules are broken after Pos Malaysia's last (January 2011) site update. I'm no longer maintaining them, but have replaced them with a single shipping module (now based on an API at shipping-quote.net which is more versatile, faster, more reliable and simpler. See here:
http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/19/spider-my-shipping-modules-v0-3-for-oscommerce-zen-cart-pos-malaysia/
Just updated these two shipping ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed | 23 Comments »
Friday, August 15th, 2008
I had been wondering how difficult it would be to make a search engine widget for spider.my - there's so much important stuff yet to be done, but I got distracted by the gloss! The great news is - very easy! You can visit spider.my now and add its search ...
Posted in Fixed, Google, Search, Spider.my | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Up until a couple of days ago, the Spider.my search page applied only minimal formatting to hits, and no extra page decoration. The 'blank screen of death' appeared for a search miss: no results, no page content.
Just to reassure the user the empty page was 'normal', I'd put a lame ...
Posted in Breaktime, Fixed, Google, software, Spider.my | 4 Comments »
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
[caption id="attachment_53" align="alignright" width="160" caption=" - Mandelbrot"][/caption]
I've been working so late recently, I've been early. It's silly, working late. I've been sitting here working at a glacial pace, thinking "I must go to sleep", until I can hear birds singing, the window starts to get bright again, and ...
Posted in Breaktime, Search, Spider.my | 2 Comments »