Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
I may be doing something terribly wrong. I hope the Internet will tell me. I wanted to make a widget so that I could showcase some AJAX-accessible shipping quotes I'd put on spider.my, but demonstrate accessibility from another site. I'd never written much javascript before this week, so I was ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
(Update 29th Dec 2010: The widget died while I was moving code around. It's back again for a while until I put some pages together at spider.my explaining how the new API is going to solve all your shipping woes)
(Update 11th Jan 2011: Widget has been off and on for ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_796" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Download Pos Malaysia shipping rates at spider.my"][/caption]
Update January 2011 - there won't be any rates download for some time. If you're looking for a shipping module for osCommerce / Zen Cart try this article. If you're looking for simplified access to Pos Malaysia's shipping rates, you ...
Posted in Fixed, Life, Money, software | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The shipping quotes described here moved long ago to shipping-quote.net
[caption id="attachment_791" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Pos Laju shipping rates quotation demo 2"][/caption]
With a little bit of 'reverse engineering', it's possible to write a program to obtain a full set of postage rates from Pos Malaysia's website. As far as I know, they ...
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
I finally got round to adding client-side scripting to the Currency Conversion page at spider.my! AJAX is 'Asynchronous Java And XML'. Basically, it allows you to embed some functionality in your web page so that your page can communicate with your server after it has been rendered in your visitor's ...
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