Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category
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 ...
Posted in Broken, software, Spider.my | 4 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Broken, Life, Money, Philosophy, software | 9 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Breaktime, Broken, Life | No Comments »
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, ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed, FOSS, software, Spinneret | 4 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Broadband, Broken | No Comments »