Aussie Blogs Codefest 2004
Posted on 06. Dec, 2004 in Internet
Spent the weekend coding on Aussie Blogs, except when I was getting my
ears raped on Saturday night at the Prodigy concert. I fixed lots of niggling bugs and also added
some cool features. Summary of the more interesting stuff:
- Blogger.com Australia plus major cities directories are now searched by a new bot daily for new aussie blogs and automatically added to the database.
- The entire Blogwise Australia directory is now checked for aussie blogs weekly by finder bot, not just the first page as before.
- The blo.gs listener bot is out of testing and now running permanently watching for updated aussie blogs that ping blo.gs. The bot is running on my London server.
- Improved the alternate URL matching logic to improve the chances of matching a pinging blog with the aussieblogs database.
- Added source stats for the last 48 hours to the sidebar so we can monitor where updates are coming from.
- Re-enabled the CheckerBot for non-pinging blogs. I'm in the process of switching to threading to handle where bad blogs can sometime block further execution.
- Added a awaiting review statistic to the right sidebar to show how many blog edits or additions to the aussieblogs database are waiting for human editors to check (currently 222 awaiting review!).
- The connection handling, polling frequency and efficiency of the weblogs.com and blogger.com bots has been improved.
- Migrated the aussieblogs site (and my personal site) to the new server at the MCI data centre in Sydney (there was some downtime while data was migrated and dns entries changed).
- Fixed a thread pooling bug on the new server stopping some features from working on the site.
http://aussieblogs.org/...
