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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The shipping quotes described here moved long ago to shipping-quote.net
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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 ...
Posted in Fixed, software | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
spider.my is long gone: the shipping API has moved to Shipping-Quote.net
[caption id="attachment_781" align="alignright" width="240"] Pos Malaysia shipping quote at spider.my - part 1[/caption]
Here's a first shot at an AJAX-powered Pos Laju shipping quote. As I said in my previous article on a Pos Malaysia shipping quote API, there should ideally ...
Posted in Broken, software, Spider.my | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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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 ...
Posted in Broken, Life, Money, Philosophy, software | 9 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Fixed, Money, software, Spider.my | No Comments »
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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It required a bit more work than I was expecting, but wossis.com now has a shiny new Atom feed for updated cardsets. Atom is a format and protocol for providing news (the 'feed') about a website. You may have seen the little ...
Posted in Breaktime, Fixed, software, Spinneret | 1 Comment »