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Friday, January 28th, 2011
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Adding Laos (article soon) to the shipping origins in the spider.my data meant I had to update a few things at spider.my - among them the shipping world map. The old shades of red were looking a bit dull, ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Spider.my is served by a very small VPS provided by Nocser. The search function of spider.my is currently served by 2 reasonably-sized Xeon servers near my desk. I can't currently afford to rent the equivalent amount of computing power from a hosting company, so the front-end of spider.my is all ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
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Spider.my really wasn't working very well on any of our mobile phones (handphones as they're called in Malaysia), as the search had been using a terrible cross-domain javascript hack to fetch results from the back-end. A couple of things ...
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Friday, December 31st, 2010
var mySpiderDefaultFrom='MY';
A lot of the shipping quotation stuff that I did using Pos Malaysia's rates has been broken while I've been stumbling through getting spider.my updated.
To add the widget to your own web page, just copy and paste the code from below, and next time you load the page ...
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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 ...
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