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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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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.
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This morning I modified the International Pos Laju rates ripping ...
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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
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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 ...
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