Posted by Charlie
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:57:00 GMT
A bit tardy, but I wanted to let everyone know that we pushed an update to the server last Sunday that fixed a number of bugs. In addition, it added some geoding functionality and well as some additional feature viewing functionality.
You may also have noticed that your user name and password no longer worked - thats because we made some changes to the database and therefore had to dump and reload it.
This week, we've been working on feature editing and have started work on the community aspects of the site as well as search functionality. We have also upgraded to Rails 1.1.
We'll push another update to the server this weekend. And instead of doing it by hand, we'll be using an automated deployment tool that checks out the code, deploys it to the server and then runs smoke tests. In theory, this will make deployment as simple as pressing a button, regardless of whether we are deploying to an in-house server or hosted server. We'll see how the tool works this weekend.
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Posted by Charlie
Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
For anyone interested, we've started experimenting with a Wiki for keeping track of meeting notes, system configuration information, etc.
Anyone can edit it, so feel free to add in new pages if you'd like. If want a login (as opposed to just being anonymous) let me know.
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Posted by Charlie
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:43:00 GMT
You may have experienced problems accessing the Trac bug system the last couple of days. We've finally tracked (um, no pun intended) this down - it has to do with a bug in our web server lighttpd. For those interested, details can be found here.
The issue is now fixed.
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Posted by Charlie
Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:28:00 GMT
We've just deployed an update that fixes a number of issues that people ran into this week.
Besides fixing bugs, we've also made a lot of progress on increasing our test coverage. We now have almost complete coverage on the code that talks to the database. However, we have only roughly 25% coverage of the code that controls user interactions and web page generation. The plan is to have that number up signficantly by early next week.
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Posted by Charlie
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:54:00 GMT
Welcome to MapBuzz! Today the first version of the website went online. It includes the following functionality:
- User management Functionality that allows users to register, receive confirmation emails, login/logout, change passwords, etc.
- User location information. When a user first visits the mapBuzz website, the site attempts to guess their location based on their computer’s IP address.
- Data. For test data, the site includes landmark data (airports, hospitals, etc.) from the U.S. Census Bureau’s tiger database. This data can be accessed from the list of maps shown on the right hand side of the home page.
- Map interaction. Map interaction is the same as Google Maps. In addition, we have added support for zoom boxes, to make it easier to navigate through maps, and map tool-tips, to make it easier to quickly inspect what is shown on a map.
- Map Sharing. Users can create maps and share them with friends, family and other users. Currently the user interface for this functionality is confusing to use and will be updated soon.
Of course, being a brand new site there will be features that do not work as expected or may not work at all. The user interface may also be confusing or incomplete in places since we haven’t spent significant time on that aspect of the website. Thus over the next couple of months, you should expect to see significant changes as we move towards a beta release.
Welcome again to MapBuzz!
Charlie
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