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Monday, July 20th, 2009
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I'm slowly inching towards a first release of Spinneret. I'll be testing some of the features out on a new domain: poditronic.com. The source and API will probably go up on spider.my eventually, but as functionality allows, I'll put some tutorial-like content up ...
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
I thought of one way to do this, but checked Google first to see if there was an easier, more obvious way. Real Gagnon has a method at his site which is similar to the way I thought I could do it, but no less obscure or easy!
Here's my code, ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Remember last time I complained about Pos Malaysia making useless, business-breaking changes to their shipping quotation system? They've done it again! Lolyco.com depends on shipping quotations from Pos Malaysia's website to automate its checkout. I wrote an osCommerce shipping module that just sends the weight and destination of an order ...
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
I broke the cardinal rule and updated to software that was only 1 day old. It seems I've been reasonably lucky and very little went wrong. I thought I'd better write some notes on what did go wrong just in case it happens to someone else and they lose a ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Just a quick note, just in case someone else sees this message. I got this error this morning when I logged in as a non-root user on a Slackware server I'd upgraded yesterday. In an act of blind faith, I used 'slackpkg upgrade-all', and then the fun began.
Incidentally, if you're ...
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