Archive for the ‘software’ Category
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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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
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Just a quick note to say I've found one of those surprisingly useful features of a graphical desktop that really does make sense. I was thinking about calculating the positions of some elements on a web page and ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
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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, Spider.my, software | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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Adding the Pos Parcel rates (ripped yesterday) to the previously ripped Pos Laju rates made it glaringly obvious how difficult it is to write software for data that's in as bad a shape as is Pos Malaysia's. With the problems ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
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This morning I modified the International Pos Laju rates ripping code to get a full set of Pos Malaysia's International Parcel rates. If you use the widget on my blog, you'll see ...
Posted in Fixed, Spider.my, Spinneret, software | 3 Comments »