Re: [Az-Geocaching] Website rewrite update

Brian,

Yet again I must offer my thanks. Your knowledge of coding and *nix are
amazing. Despite the time consuming task of re-writing all the code in a
new language, the side benefit to you is less maintenance time in the future
with a cleaner, fresher code. Thanks again!!!

Brian
Team A.I.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@Snaptek.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:54 PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Website rewrite update


> Well, I've got the bulk of it up and running. The site is capable of
> crawling again, and it can update the database.
>
> The site still can't discover newly placed caches, recover missing
> caches or build the books for your electronic organizers. I expect to
> have the new cache discovering done by tomorrow, but until then it will
> at least keep the caches that it already knows about up to date.
>
> A nice side effect from the new data parser is that is never deletes the
> old database like the old system. It instead deletes only the cache
> it's currently updating, so there won't be a minute while there is no
> data in the database. It will also keep the site from getting totally
> thrashed when Geocaching.com changes stuff on their site (Hopefully).
> That will make it a lot less obvious when there is a problem. I'll just
> have to write some code that detects certain problems and puts poco loco
> to the top of the list again :)
>
> In the end, I think this will be a good thing. The code had been
> quickly patched over and over and over so many times that it was all
> very ugly and hard to maintain. This new fresh code will be much easier
> to update in the future, and it's making it a LOT easier to add new
> fields of data and therefore new potential features.
>
> Brian Cluff
> AzGeocaching.com
> Team Snaptek
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