Fedex 2 Day Shipping always costs $11.83 issue

Discovered a really bothersome issue with fedex, for random zip codes all over the US it returns the same shipping rate of $11.83 for  FEDEX_2_DAY shipping. These zip codes were talking about random places like South Dakota, Colorado, Arizona to name a few.

If you have Fedex shipping, you may want to start watching the calculations on the 2 Day shipping. I am still not totally convinced that its not only just an issue with this particular fedex production account. I have sent support a request, and will update this post with the findings.

To confirm that the issue was not just code in joomla/virtuemart I downloaded and setup the Fedex example api code and ran tests with versions 9,10, & 13 all in production.


Here is the link to the Fedex Developer resources and api
https://www.fedex.com/wpor/web/jsp/drclinks.jsp?links=wss/getstarted.html

There is a link on this page for the "Web Services Developer Guide" but its really hard to see/find due to its styling, so here is that link too.

Making Twitter better one Dream at a Time

I applied at twitter today, as apart of their job application they ask for ideas on improvements.

On the Fly my brain immediately went to configurations for twitter to send/forward private messages to specific users or other API's, web services, ip addresses. This would make use of Plus addressing similar to what email servers use.

A message would be sent to @twitteruser+CustomAddress, say @codepyro+linkedIn would update the status of linked in. There are many uses for this type of setup, especially with private secure messages.

What if you could send one of these messages and Restart a server? or send another command perhaps to your website to get your daily sales {to:@codepyro+website "what is my dailysales"; Response:"$X.XX"}. Perhaps a web application could send you private messages. Or maybe.... I donno, what would you use it for?

If you like this idea go tweet or post on the twitter support forms, meanwhile does anyone know how to send twitter suggestions? Perhaps they only respond to tweets :)