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, Spider.my, software | 4 Comments »
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Just updated these two shipping modules to fix a problem introduced by Pos Malaysia - a change of URL for the postage rates calculator. No change to the calculator, just to the URL. If you're Pos Malaysia's web programmer (or you know Pos Malaysia's web programmer) can you do me ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed | 8 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, Spider.my, software | 1 Comment »
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 »
