Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category
Monday, July 26th, 2010
While I'm developing projects I run a webserver on my own PC on a high-numbered port such as 22795. I use a little local proxy that I wrote myself for mapping entries in /etc/hosts back to localhost, and the proxy maps the request onto the web service running on the ...
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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 ...
Posted in Fixed, Spinneret, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_863" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Pos Malaysia world shipping charges."][/caption]
The Pos Malaysia World Shipping Map is an example of what you can do with an API. Given a weight and a shipping method, you can draw a global map of relative shipping costs. Now that the Pos Malaysia data has been ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_855" align="alignright" width="205" caption="Shipping widget appearance for browser language 'en'."][/caption]
Adding the Pos Parcel rates (ripped yesterday) to the previously ripped Pos Laju rates made it glaringly obvious how difficult it is to write software for data that's in as bad a shape as is Pos Malaysia's. With the problems ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
All this work is now packaged up into the spider.my Shipping Quotations API. Check there for latest shipping API methods, shipping modules etc.
[caption id="attachment_849" align="alignright" width="220" caption="0.5kg to France, 4 quotes: Pos Laju Document and Parcel, Pos Parcel Surface and Air"][/caption]
This morning I modified the International Pos Laju rates ripping ...
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