Thanks to everyone who showed their support at Xpression Sessions @ Bar Vinyl in Camden last night, hosted by myself and DJ Dymond (BBC 1Xtra/Knowhow Records)! Here’s Tuesday’s Bassdrive.com show!

Tracklist (incomplete because I’m doing this from memory:)

1. ???
2. Calibre - Try
3. ???
4. Dune -Robot Rock
5. Camo & Krooked - ???
6. ???
7. Markoman & Tsunami - Paranoia
8. Shock One - ???
9. The Ego & DJ Roots feat. Ill-Esha - Hypnotize
10. Spinlock & Jayji - You
11. ???
12. Subfocus - Druggy
13. Subsonik - Remember VIP
14. ???
15. ???
16. Raiden & Temper D - False Alarm
17. Pacific - ???
18. Undergang - Silence Des Soumis (Metrik Remix)
19. Silent Witness & Break - ???
20. ???
21. Sparfunk - Tonight
22. Bad Company - Brainscan
23. Photek - The Beginning
24. Common - The Light (bootleg)
25. Jonny L feat. Optical - Viper
26. Break - ???
27. Bulletproof - ???
28. Absolute Zero & Subphonics - The Code (Tactile Remix)
29. Logistics - Cold World
30. The Ego & DJ Roots feat. Ill-Esha - Universe
31. Telemetrik - Cosmos
32. Logistics - Spotlight
33. Syncopix - Dos Or Die
34. Kiro & Subsonik - What We Were Born To Do
35. Noisia - Façade VIP
36. Ant Miles - ???
37. Kiko - Octane
38. Fierce, Silent Witness and Nico - Galleon
39. Subsonik - Tanker
40. The Qemists - ???
41. The Upbeats - ???
42. SST vs Glitch - Intake Remix
43. Poise - Worth Living
44. The Ego & DJ Roots feat. Bungle - Conquest System
45. Logistics - Missing Link VIP
46. Girl Gone - Soul Shaker
47. Shock One - Droppin’ This
48. Noisia - Concussion
49. Castor feat. Ill-Esha - Not The Way
50. Subsonik - Frozen Remix
Attempt to fill in the gaps IF YOU DARE!

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And many more ;D

Download the latest XPOSURE show here! Plenty to keep you entertained…

Includes tracks from Groove Armada, Ill-Esha, Photek, The Qemists, Spor, Baron, Noisia, Break, Lomax and others.

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Check out http://www.resident.at/, the official website for Resident Magazine. Massive shouts to Intoxicated Vie and all of the Resident crew.

Of course, it’s only worth reading if you speak German… otherwise you’ll be limited to looking at the pictures.

I recently added a couple of pages to my site with some free software for you to download.

The first is a plugin for WordPress called Sandbox Relocator which makes working in a sandbox or staged environment easier. No more hacking the database each time you sync your test copy with the live version.

The second is a plugin for Pidgin called Always Accept which lets you receive files auto-accept style from anyone, like how the official AIM client and Trillian do it, not just from people who are on your buddy list that you’ve approved, which is how the Pidgin bundled Auto Accept plugin does it.

Thank me later…

Two things[*] annoy me about MySpace:

1. You can’t search your inbox.

2. When someone deletes their account, it deletes every message they sent you, including ones you saved.

Well, I did something about it. I wrote a program to read my inbox and mail me all of the contents!

Click here for a screen shot.

[*] a lot more than 2 things annoy me about myspace, but 2 things in specific, ok?

Back to back set with my house mate Paul (Inside Info) - yes, the same one who’s been featured on 1Xtra and signed to Terrafunk / Ganjatek. Check out the music, and don’t mind the flying teabags.

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Well, my label XPOSURE RECORDS had it’s first full release and the 2nd just hit on promo. Please pop over there to have a very quick listen to what’s new!

Also here’s a new podcast entry for you… sorry for the slackness, and remember they are regularly updated on The Bassdrive Archive.

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And more to the point, how the hell do you get a list suitable for populating your online shop with shipping prices?

I sat on the Royal Mail site for more than half an hour today trying to find such a list and there simply is none. They have catered well for the case where you want to send a package and know where it’s going, but don’t seem to care about people who need to price stuff to anywhere. Google was not much help either!

I did come across this international shipping country world zone PDF - but what I needed were country codes in ISO format for CubeCart (that is, “GB” not “Great Britain”, “ES” not “Spain”, anyway you get the idea). And I’m most certainly not spending 4 hours guessing ISO codes and retyping them! No chance!! I’d rather spend 4 hours spreading bad publicity about Royal Mail’s complete and total failure to be of any help.

Anyway, In the end I found this: Big Royal Mail plugin for Zen Cart. Ok so all the definitions of what’s what are buried in the PHP code, but at least it’s in a useful format…!

Whoa is me. If only this was the USA: the USPS apparently has a web service API where you can just query prices from your software. Muuuch easier…

So, how do you get the Royal Mail International Zones and Prices into CubeCart?

1) Download Big Royal Mail plugin for Zen Cart and open the zip file

2) browse to includes/modules/shipping (yes it’s all burried away!)

3) open the file rmamsmallpacket.php in Notepad (I assume rmamsmallpacket is supposed to mean Royal Mail Air Mail Small Packet, which were the prices I wanted. You might need another file for a different set of prices).

4) about 3/4 of the way down the file, you will see some comma separated lists deep within a whole bunch of code. For example, “AL, AD, AM, AT, AZ, BA, BE, BG, BY, CY, CZ, …” (that’s the beginning of the Europe list). This is the list of ISO country codes that Cubecart wants! - and in the same format cubecart takes it, too! - although you will have to get rid of the spaces. So, open a 2nd copy of Notepad, and paste these in.

5) Search and replace all the spaces into nothings. CubeCart is agoraphobic.

6) Scroll down a little further and you will find a whole bunch of comma separated weight/price pairs which look like this: “0.1:1.19, 0.12:1.31, 0.14:1.44, …”. You will find about 5 of these for Europe. Copy and paste these into notepad one after the other and de-space-ify them as well. This is the list of PRICES that CubeCart wants!

7) Do steps 4 through 6 again for the World Zone 1 and 2 codes and prices.

Irritating Conclusion

Now… it’s very interesting to me that this Zen Cart plugin has the prices in essentially the same format as CubeCart’s plugin BUT THAT THEY’RE NOT IDENTICAL. What this tells me is that one of two things is true…

Either: a) the guy who wrote CubeCart’s plugin based it on Zen Cart’s. But if that’s true, why is there no reference to Zen Cart’s - or where to source the data - anywhere in the plugin? And why would he change the format?
Or: b) Both Cube Cart and Zen Cart’s plugins took their data from an officially provided source, such as a Royal Mail SDK. If there is such a thing, I can find no mention of it on their website, which is 99.5% developer-irrelevant. Google was almost no help at all. Why are they making it so difficult??

I’m off to the USA for 2 weeks - WMC here I come - but here’s some music to tide you over.

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00:00 Subfocus - Special Place (Ram)
02:32 Kiro vs Billy Lane - Only Here (XPOSURE)
05:55 Cold Jazz & Wezzler - Calling
09:10 Taxman - Too Bad VIP (Frontline)
11:03 Brian Abbey feat. Aaron Simpson - Never Far From Right (Subsonik Mix) (XPOSURE)
13:48 No Money - Rapid Recognition
15:41 Red Rat - Blaze The Rat (Bootleg)
18:48 Mingus - Curzon (Abstract Inc)
21:28 Wezzler - Frost (XPOSURE)
23:21 Tubby T - Ready She Ready (Photek Remix)
26:02 Break - The Truth (Symmetry)
28:10 Antiform - Crash
31:00 Fresh - Immortal (Breakbeat Kaos)
35:00 Pacific - Babymaker
38:16 L Plus & MG - Musik (XPOSURE)
41:30 Basic Ops & Doppler - Restless
43:13 Soma & Justin Todd - I Feel You (XPOSURE)
47:00 Futurebound, Matrix & Sylo - The Edge (Metro vs Viper)
50:38 Michael Jackson - Human Nature (Bootleg)
53:05 Contour - Masquerade (XPOSURE)
55:59 Brookes Bros - Mistakes (Breakbeat Kaos)
59:12 Subfocus - Druggy (Ram)
61:27 Shock One - Let Me Go VIP (Incite)
65:44 The Funktastics - Girls Say Haaaa (Spin)
67:52 TC - Rockstar (D-Style)

Sorry I don’t post here as much as I should. I post many of the things I have to say on my MySpace blog.