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Other developments including backup work

September 18th, 2009 by Richard G

As well as the changes tab I talked about in the previous post, this week we’ve also been working on the creation of a research/backup server. This is going well and we’ve now decided on the model we going to use to automate the regular updating of the backup server. We’ve also started adding the relevant software to the server to allow this. We are now having to wait until early next week for the server to be moved to its final physical location so we can configure the various services to work over the network.

Some other smaller things that have also been taken care of the week are:

  • the location part of an observation is now compulsory
  • the live site has been updated to the latest version of various modules, although a recent security release means another update is now needed!
  • an RSS feed that we’d added to the front page for use with cool iris has been changed to limit the number of images to the latest 200 and to only images less than a month old. This previously gave a feed of all images from the site which might overwhelm the users browser and could also place a large load on the server if many people use the feed.

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5 Responses to “Other developments including backup work”

  1. Jonathan Says:
    September 20th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    I like cooliris as you know, but there are a few things that need fixing:

    1. images are slower to load than from other sites such as Google images.
    2. The most recent images did not show when I tried it just now.
    3. You cannot click through from the cooliris image to the observation in iSpot, which you ought to be able to do. You can do this on other sites, so I assume there is just a setting that needs fixing to correct this?

  2. Jonathan Says:
    September 20th, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Correction: Looking at the Cooliris page again, there are now links back to iSpot, but they were just slow to load. Howver, once you are back at iSpot there is no way to get from the image to the associated observation page. This does need fixing with a link.

  3. Richard G Says:
    September 21st, 2009 at 9:26 am

    You should find underneath any image that is part of an observation a link to the observation. I’ve just checked and it all seems fine to me.

  4. Jonathan Says:
    September 21st, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Yes, it did appear eventually, but its not there immediately the images appear.

  5. Richard G Says:
    September 21st, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    I was meaning the link from an image page in iSpot back to the observation page that it’s part of.

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