Archive for the ‘Spinneret’ Category

URL Shortening – use a service or do it yourself?

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 ...

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 ...