Archive for the ‘Spinneret’ Category

Java console “Content-Encoding: null” message on loading applet

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 ...

URL Shortening – use a service or do it yourself?

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 ...

NEW: Pos Malaysia Parcel rates

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. [caption id="attachment_849" align="alignright" width="220" caption="0.5kg to France, 4 quotes: Pos Laju Document and Parcel, Pos Parcel Surface and Air"][/caption] This morning I modified the International Pos Laju rates ripping ...

Added Atom Feed to wossis.com

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_730" align="alignright" width="100" caption="Feed Icon for Atom/RSS etc"][/caption] 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 ...

Ab – Apache Bench hanging with -k Keep-Alive switch

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, ...