XML real-time quotes code just went live
Just Retirement (the company that I work for) just went live with Assureweb, a quote comparison site for IFA's (independant financial advisors).
My code went live on Tuesday and we now get over thousands of quick quotes a day.
Phase II is planned for next year where I will write code to allow full medical assessment's to be made and calculated for the quote premium, this should increase the daily quote count dramatically, I've got loads of work to do between now an then :)
Gears of War 2
I'm not a big first person shooter fan... believe it or not, I' rather play racing games or even strategy (yes worms counts!) but... I have to say I am strangely drawn into playing GOW2.
I actually think it may be the first game hat I could complete...so the far the action and story line is very good. I play online with a few friends on Thursday evenings, so if you fancy a game come find me in a party and join in.
email me for my gamertag if you don't have it already.
blog gets a facelift
found more time to add more content...
oh added a twitter feed too, seems to be sporadically misbehaving so don't be surprised if it's blank...
think it's a cache issue with my ISP, set to 15 minutes but seems to return an empty object sometimes? will have to debug when I do my next update...see last comment ;)
AOL UK block snipurl.com and snipr.com :-(
I was following MikeO's tweet annoucement and went to follow his link (http://snipurl.com/5a5h6) .. it was then I realised that my ISP would not resolve the snipurl domain, how annoying!
I checked it with a proxy website (babelfish) and yeah sure enough the site was up, but not accessible through my connection. I think it may just be a mistake with the DNS settings, but I will have to wait until tomorrow to find out as apparently it takes AOL technical team 24 hours to reply to my ticket!
In the meantime, I told Mike Ormond about this and he changed his powershell script to use tinyurl.com instead, he did not realise that the API was available and apparently is a more simplified model! anyhoo, great news for me as I'm now working :-) thanks Mike!