Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category
Monday, September 8th, 2008
I tested the spider at spider.my a few times recently. It was previously restricted to just a few sites that their respective admins had kindly volunteered. One of the immediate problems I noticed with releasing the spider in the wild was the number of pages I was mangling between storage ...
Posted in Broken, Life, Spider.my | No 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, July 18th, 2008
This is the sort of problem I expect that only happens to people who muck about with already working kit. Another evening spent regretting ever shutting down a running system 'for just a few minutes while I add some hardware'.
I run a few websites on a Dell PowerEdge SC440 tower ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Everybody who has a webserver wants to use less bandwidth. A webserver sends out a lot of copies of the same information. Stylesheets, images, static HTML pages, javascript files. Many of these rarely, if ever, change from one visit by a browser to the next. Fortunately, there are a few ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed, software | 3 Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Sociable is one of those plugins that makes WordPress such a joy to use. Super easy to install, just download, copy and unpack the archive. Setup from the WordPress Admin panel. This is what really floats my boat about some of the WordPress contributions - they're beautiful! The author could ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed, software | 6 Comments »