Archive for the ‘Spider.my’ Category
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
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Spider.my really wasn't working very well on any of our mobile phones (handphones as they're called in Malaysia), as the search had been using a terrible cross-domain javascript hack to fetch results from the back-end. A couple of things ...
Posted in Search, Spider.my, Uncategorized, Useful | 1 Comment »
Friday, December 31st, 2010
var mySpiderDefaultFrom='MY';
A lot of the shipping quotation stuff that I did using Pos Malaysia's rates has been broken while I've been stumbling through getting spider.my updated.
To add the widget to your own web page, just copy and paste the code from below, and next time you load the page ...
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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I've been working on spider.my for too long with no updates, so I've moved a recent version of the site online. I don't have enough spare resources for a separate development system, so it may occasionally appear to be ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
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The Pos Malaysia World Shipping Map is an example of what you can do with an API. Given a weight and a shipping method, you can draw a global map of relative shipping costs. Now that the Pos Malaysia data has been ...
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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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