Archive for the ‘Spinneret’ Category
Saturday, March 26th, 2011
I thought at first glance this might be an error in an website I'm working on, so looked into it a little bit further - turns out it's nothing at all.
I turned on request debugging in Spinneret and could see that the Sun Java plugin in FireFox was sending the ...
Posted in software, Spinneret, Useful | No Comments »
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Jess saw the news about tr.im today as she was using Twitter and asked me which URL-shortening service she should use. URL shortening services allow you to include those monster URLs that some sites seem to be capable of producing in the short-format tweets that twitter is based on. If ...
Posted in Fixed, Spinneret, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 1st, 2010
All this work is now packaged up into the spider.my Shipping Quotations API. Check there for latest shipping API methods, shipping modules etc.
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This morning I modified the International Pos Laju rates ripping ...
Posted in Fixed, software, Spider.my, Spinneret | 9 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 »
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
This problem was making me go blind! I'm testing Spinneret with ab at the moment, trying to make sure there's no disastrous behaviour under load. I found that ab just stopped after the first request if I used the -k switch. I'm not sure the problem is my fault, exactly, ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed, FOSS, software, Spinneret | 4 Comments »