Archive for the ‘Spider.my’ Category

Spider.my shipping modules v0.3 for osCommerce, Zen Cart (Pos Malaysia)

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Updates are coming a bit fast at the moment as various shortcomings are identified and a bugs squashed. The modules are only a few days old, but I've rushed them out in the wake of Pos Malaysia's website changes breaking the old modules. [caption id="attachment_1098" align="alignright" width="242" caption="osCommerce / Zen Cart ...

Set up Malaysian ISO 3166-2 zones for osCommerce / Zen Cart

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

The standard 'zones' facility of osCommerce has an attribute 'zone_code' which at first glance looks as though it might support a standardised shipping quotation system, but osCommerce comes with a database populated with zone codes that are not at all standard. The kinds of codes that are present in the ...

osCommerce shipping module for spider.my (Pos Malaysia rates) pre-release

Monday, January 17th, 2011

The shipping quote API and shipping modules for osCommerce and Zen Cart is now at Shipping-Quote.net If you've been caught out by Pos Malaysia's recent site updates and now can't quote for international deliveries from your shop, this module is functional at one Malaysian online shop. Pos Malaysia's update has come ...

Pos Malaysia Shipping rates / quotations for osCommerce and Zen Cart

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

The shipping quote API and shipping modules for osCommerce and Zen Cart is now at Shipping-Quote.net Pos Malaysia have updated their website in the last few days, with new page markup and new URLs. Either one of those changes would have broken the old osCommerce shipping modules I wrote. I won't ...

Expires header fails, max-age works: RFC1123 compliance

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

While I was testing the mobile version of the search at spider.my I noticed that my Nokia phone's browser was briefly presenting an unformatted version of the page, then applying styles, then adding a small image. Doing that once would have been expected, but it shouldn't have been doing it ...