Archive for the ‘Spider.my’ Category
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
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I'm taking spider.my down in anticipation of a move from Malaysia in the next few months. The split-brain nature of the site, with a front-end application on a small local VPS and the search (and a few other bits and bobs) back-end on a ...
Posted in Life, Spider.my | 3 Comments »
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
I've been wanting to add some Malaysian mapping facility to spider.my for some time. I often go to JUPEM's website - the "Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia" to see what they have to offer. I'm invariably sorry when I do that - their website takes forever to load and ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Spider.my, Useful | No Comments »
Friday, January 28th, 2011
I met a couple of friends in Vientiane recently (25th Jan 2011) as they were touring Laos. I had half a day free at the end of the visit, so I executed a 'brute force search' of Vientiane to find the cost of shipping parcels overseas. Vientiane is a lovely, ...
Posted in eCommerce, Life, Money, Shipping, Spider.my | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 28th, 2011
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Adding Laos (article soon) to the shipping origins in the spider.my data meant I had to update a few things at spider.my - among them the shipping world map. The old shades of red were looking a bit dull, ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
These shipping modules have been at Shipping-Quote.net since 2011. Download them from there.
A fairly minor release this one, a little bit of tidying up to remove differences from the osCommerce and Zen Cart modules, but also a couple of changes you should know about:
Small packet methods
Prior to v0.4, small packet ...
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