Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category

Pos Malaysia Shipping rates / quotations for osCommerce and Zen Cart

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

The shipping quote API and shipping modules for osCommerce and Zen Cart is now at Shipping-Quote.net Pos Malaysia have updated their website in the last few days, with new page markup and new URLs. Either one of those changes would have broken the old osCommerce shipping modules I wrote. I won't ...

Expires header fails, max-age works: RFC1123 compliance

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

While I was testing the mobile version of the search at spider.my I noticed that my Nokia phone's browser was briefly presenting an unformatted version of the page, then applying styles, then adding a small image. Doing that once would have been expected, but it shouldn't have been doing it ...

Streamyx down Port Dickson area Sept 29th 2010

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

No Streamyx again, after a half hour dropout yesterday. Starting before 6pm this evening and still out at 9:30PM as I write. I tried phoning 1300 88 9515 first, but got bored after about 5 minutes. Among the adverts (do they have to spam me with adverts for their products ...

Power cut near Port Dickson, Sunday 1st August 2010

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Mid-way through showering the kids (lazy Sunday!) the power went again. It's a bit easier during the day, we can still see and the kids are quite happy to be hosed down with cold (the tank in the attic must be nearly blood temperature!) water. I can't check with the ...

Proxy web browser for XHTML Strict and non port-80 hosts

Monday, July 26th, 2010

While I'm developing projects I run a webserver on my own PC on a high-numbered port such as 22795. I use a little local proxy that I wrote myself for mapping entries in /etc/hosts back to localhost, and the proxy maps the request onto the web service running on the ...