Archive for the ‘Money’ Category

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 ...

AJAX-enabled exchange rates

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 ...

Looking for a free online currency exchange rate service

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

There are plenty of webpages where you can get foreign exchange rate information, like XE.com and OANDA, but those are heavyweight pages intended for human use. Those same sites offer real-time exchange rate data, but for fairly hefty charges. What I wanted was a simple feed with just the bare ...