Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category

Pos Malaysia e-commerce shipping quote with AJAX

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

spider.my is long gone: the shipping API has moved to Shipping-Quote.net [caption id="attachment_781" align="alignright" width="240"] Pos Malaysia shipping quote at spider.my - part 1[/caption] Here's a first shot at an AJAX-powered Pos Laju shipping quote. As I said in my previous article on a Pos Malaysia shipping quote API, there should ideally ...

Pos Malaysia shipping quotes for e-commerce

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

[caption id="attachment_773" align="alignright" width="174" caption="Pos Malaysia"][/caption] I maintain some Malaysian shipping modules for the popular e-commerce software osCommerce which allow local e-shops to include up-to-date automatic shipping quotes from Pos Malaysia (Pos Laju and Pos Air Parcel) in the order total. If you run an e-shop, being able to pass on ...

Is the new DAP rocket the wrong colour?

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_641" align="alignright" width="240"] Old DAP rocket with Inkscape guidelines - everything is wonky![/caption] I was thinking of writing an article about the Jalur Gemilang - the Malaysian national flag - and the importance of very carefully specifying your 'brand', and remembered I'd written about Malayisia's Democratic Action Party (DAP) logo ...

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, ...

Streamyx down AGAIN! Up and down like a bride’s nightie!

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

What is a frustrated Internet user to do? I'm not sure if I can even be bothered to send email this time. No, not true. I have to. Streamyx has disappeared again 16:15 Wednesday 25th November. Fortunately I still have my DiGi EDGE adapter. Hey! No sooner did I start ...