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	<title>Sean's blog &#187; Spider.my</title>
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	<description>Working nights with the thief of time</description>
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		<title>Bye bye spider.my</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/03/24/bye-bye-spider-my/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking spider.my down in anticipation of a move from Malaysia in the next few months. The split-brain nature of the site, with a front-end application on a small local VPS and the search (and a few other bits and bobs) back-end on a stack of servers on my landing makes it sufficiently awkward to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysian maps and a geographic locations API &#8230; kind of</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/03/03/malaysian-maps-and-a-geographic-locations-api-kind-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolehtics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to add some Malaysian mapping facility to spider.my for some time. I often go to JUPEM&#8217;s website &#8211; the &#8220;Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia&#8221; to see what they have to offer. I&#8217;m invariably sorry when I do that &#8211; their website takes forever to load and doesn&#8217;t work properly in Firefox, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laos shipping quotations for e-commerce (osCommerce, Zen Cart etc)</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/28/laos-shipping-quotations-for-e-commerce-oscommerce-zen-cart-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[eCommerce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shipping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spider.my]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I met a couple of friends in Vientiane recently (25th Jan 2011) as they were touring Laos. I had half a day free at the end of the visit, so I executed a &#8216;brute force search&#8217; of Vientiane to find the cost of shipping parcels overseas. Vientiane is a lovely, charming, welcoming city. You should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shipping quote world map update</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/28/shipping-quote-world-map-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[eCommerce]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adding Laos (article soon) to the shipping origins in the spider.my data meant I had to update a few things at spider.my &#8211; among them the shipping world map. The old shades of red were looking a bit dull, so I used java.awt.Color&#8217;s HSVtoRGB() method to map shipping prices onto a range of hues. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spider.my shipping module for osCommerce / Zen Cart v0.4</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/27/spider-my-shipping-module-for-oscommerce-zen-cart-v0-4/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/27/spider-my-shipping-module-for-oscommerce-zen-cart-v0-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shipping]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A fairly minor release this one, a little bit of tidying up to remove differences from the osCommerce and Zen Cart modules, but also a couple of changes you should know about: Small packet methods Prior to v0.4, small packet methods were added onto the list of methods the module would give quotations for. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spider.my shipping modules v0.3 for osCommerce, Zen Cart (Pos Malaysia)</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/19/spider-my-shipping-modules-v0-3-for-oscommerce-zen-cart-pos-malaysia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/19/spider-my-shipping-modules-v0-3-for-oscommerce-zen-cart-pos-malaysia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Updates are coming a bit fast at the moment as various shortcomings are identified and a bugs squashed. The modules are only a few days old, but I&#8217;ve rushed them out in the wake of Pos Malaysia&#8217;s website changes breaking the old modules. ISO 3166-2 locations / &#8216;local&#8217; shipping The v0.3 modules come without an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Set up Malaysian ISO 3166-2 zones for osCommerce / Zen Cart</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/19/set-up-malaysian-iso-3166-2-zones-for-oscommerce-zen-cart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOSS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The standard &#8216;zones&#8217; facility of osCommerce has an attribute &#8216;zone_code&#8217; which at first glance looks as though it might support a standardised shipping quotation system, but osCommerce comes with a database populated with zone codes that are not at all standard. The kinds of codes that are present in the database are what a person [...]]]></description>
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		<title>osCommerce shipping module for spider.my (Pos Malaysia rates) pre-release</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/17/oscommerce-shipping-module-for-spider-my-pos-malaysia-rates-pre-release/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/17/oscommerce-shipping-module-for-spider-my-pos-malaysia-rates-pre-release/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been caught out by Pos Malaysia&#8217;s recent site updates and now can&#8217;t quote for international deliveries from your shop, this module is functional at one Malaysian online shop. Pos Malaysia&#8217;s update has come while I&#8217;ve been re-vamping the shipping quotation back-end and so I only have Pos Malaysia Air Parcel and Surface Parcel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pos Malaysia Shipping rates / quotations for osCommerce and Zen Cart</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/16/pos-malaysia-shipping-rates-quotations-oscommerce-zen-cart/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/16/pos-malaysia-shipping-rates-quotations-oscommerce-zen-cart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broken]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1067</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t be updating the old shipping modules any more, as random, non-improving changes to postal service websites that break business functionality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expires header fails, max-age works: RFC1123 compliance</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/06/expires-header-fails-max-age-works-rfc1123-compliance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/06/expires-header-fails-max-age-works-rfc1123-compliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1036</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I was testing the mobile version of the search at spider.my I noticed that my Nokia phone&#8217;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&#8217;t have been doing it on subsequent requests of the [...]]]></description>
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