[Az-Geocaching] Website rewrite update

[Steven Stringham]

Having done just a tiny bit of coding myself (really tiny), I appreciate
greatly the effort you go through to benefit the whole group. Caching in
AZ would not be the same without the AZGC site. The stats pages, the
downloads, etc. just make it a whole lot easier to prepare for and enjoy
my caching experience.

(I'm not in it for the numbers, Records, nah, I don't care about those!).

Thank you so much. Despite our complaining sometimes, we really do
appreciate it!

StringCachers
Steven Stringham


> 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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