Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category
Monday, September 8th, 2008
I tested the spider at spider.my a few times recently. It was previously restricted to just a few sites that their respective admins had kindly volunteered. One of the immediate problems I noticed with releasing the spider in the wild was the number of pages I was mangling between storage ...
Posted in Broken, Life, Spider.my | No Comments »
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
My old-style shipping modules are broken after Pos Malaysia's last (January 2011) site update. I'm no longer maintaining them, but have replaced them with a single shipping module (now based on an API at shipping-quote.net which is more versatile, faster, more reliable and simpler. See here:
http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/19/spider-my-shipping-modules-v0-3-for-oscommerce-zen-cart-pos-malaysia/
Just updated these two shipping ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed | 23 Comments »
Friday, July 18th, 2008
This is the sort of problem I expect that only happens to people who muck about with already working kit. Another evening spent regretting ever shutting down a running system 'for just a few minutes while I add some hardware'.
I run a few websites on a Dell PowerEdge SC440 tower ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Everybody who has a webserver wants to use less bandwidth. A webserver sends out a lot of copies of the same information. Stylesheets, images, static HTML pages, javascript files. Many of these rarely, if ever, change from one visit by a browser to the next. Fortunately, there are a few ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed, software | 5 Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Sociable is one of those plugins that makes WordPress such a joy to use. Super easy to install, just download, copy and unpack the archive. Setup from the WordPress Admin panel. This is what really floats my boat about some of the WordPress contributions - they're beautiful! The author could ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed, software | 6 Comments »