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Friday, December 31st, 2010
var mySpiderDefaultFrom='MY';
A lot of the shipping quotation stuff that I did using Pos Malaysia's rates has been broken while I've been stumbling through getting spider.my updated.
To add the widget to your own web page, just copy and paste the code from below, and next time you load the page ...
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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I've been working on spider.my for too long with no updates, so I've moved a recent version of the site online. I don't have enough spare resources for a separate development system, so it may occasionally appear to be ...
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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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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
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Just a quick note to say I've found one of those surprisingly useful features of a graphical desktop that really does make sense. I was thinking about calculating the positions of some elements on a web page and ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
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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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