Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
BrickOS was an integral part of some work I did many years ago and I've been trying to dig the code up recently. It seems as though it fell out of the Ubuntu repositories some time ago (in as legos before the name change), so I'm currently installing the source ...
Posted in Breaktime, Broken, Fixed, FOSS, hardware, Life | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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I've been working on spider.my for too long with no updates, so I've moved a recent version of the site online. I don't have enough spare resources for a separate development system, so it may occasionally appear to be ...
Posted in Fixed, Search, software, Spider.my | No Comments »
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 ...
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Jess saw the news about tr.im today as she was using Twitter and asked me which URL-shortening service she should use. URL shortening services allow you to include those monster URLs that some sites seem to be capable of producing in the short-format tweets that twitter is based on. If ...
Posted in Fixed, Spinneret, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_863" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Pos Malaysia world shipping charges."][/caption]
The Pos Malaysia World Shipping Map is an example of what you can do with an API. Given a weight and a shipping method, you can draw a global map of relative shipping costs. Now that the Pos Malaysia data has been ...
Posted in Fixed, Money, software, Spider.my | No Comments »