Archive for the ‘Useful’ Category

Java console “Content-Encoding: null” message on loading applet

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

I thought at first glance this might be an error in an website I'm working on, so looked into it a little bit further - turns out it's nothing at all. I turned on request debugging in Spinneret and could see that the Sun Java plugin in FireFox was sending the ...

Power from the sun (and gun): Bandar Dataran Solar

Friday, March 18th, 2011

A couple of days ago when I wrote about how I thought Malaysia should generate electricity from the sun, I realised that the picture that I carry in my head might not be the same as a reader might form in their own. Worse, I dashed off an image of ...

Solar power in Malaysia – the residential area solar roof

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1200" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Malaysian house, blue sky (on a rainy day)"][/caption] 'Part two' has some better images that should make things a bit clearer! I keep suggesting this as a 'real' solar power alternative whenever someone says (as they invariably do) that solar power cannot produce enough energy to compete with ...

Malaysian maps and a geographic locations API … kind of

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

I've been wanting to add some Malaysian mapping facility to spider.my for some time. I often go to JUPEM's website - the "Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia" to see what they have to offer. I'm invariably sorry when I do that - their website takes forever to load and ...

Shipping quote world map update

Friday, January 28th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1114" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Old world map - a lot of red"][/caption] 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, ...