Archive for the ‘Spinneret’ Category

NEW: Pos Malaysia Parcel rates

Monday, March 1st, 2010

[caption id="attachment_849" align="alignright" width="220" caption="0.5kg to France, 4 quotes: Pos Laju Document and Parcel, Pos Parcel Surface and Air"][/caption] 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 ...

Added Atom Feed to wossis.com

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_730" align="alignright" width="100" caption="Feed Icon for Atom/RSS etc"][/caption] It required a bit more work than I was expecting, but wossis.com now has a shiny new Atom feed for updated cardsets. Atom is a format and protocol for providing news (the 'feed') about a website. You may have seen the little ...

Ab – Apache Bench hanging with -k Keep-Alive switch

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

This problem was making me go blind! I'm testing Spinneret with ab at the moment, trying to make sure there's no disastrous behaviour under load. I found that ab just stopped after the first request if I used the -k switch. I'm not sure the problem is my fault, exactly, ...

Wossis? Flashcards, that’s what!

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_515" align="alignright" width="241" caption="Wossis? Flashcards!"][/caption] I turned the flashcard page I wrote at poditronic.com a while ago into a site that allows its users to add their own sets of flashcards. It's at http://wossis.com/ if you'd like to see it. It's still very early days, but things are now stable ...

Correct response for wrong Host: field in HTTP request header

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Still frantically trying to get Spinneret into shape for a first open-source release. I'm also working on a new project that I'm quite excited about, which is providing plenty of examples of where Spinneret could be improved! The new project is hosted on a VPS at VPSLink (recommended, so far!). Today's ...