I am way behind on the blogs so I am going to get a bunch in here in a hurry.
Chase logs for my first 5 chases of the year will be up later tonight.
Winter this year was hard and long but some of it was my own doing. We did some major updates to the code that drives ChaserTV many features we always wanted but did not have time to complete got done. The website is almost entirely “Batch Driven” which is something I learned from the credit card days. You want to process a ton of information and keep things stable you do it as a batch. The new ChaserTV site builds all it’s content in batches every 1-5min depending, thus when someone visits the site the pages are basically stored in memory and don’t need to use other programs to work. Why? This helps keep the load off the server during extreme weather outbreaks such as 4/22/10 in the Texas Panhandle and 4/24/10 in MS. I had a TON of help this time around Andrew Glenn and Henry Devito helped with most of the code and I acted more like a PM and designer.
We also added some new frills such as auotmatic up down, recording, new maps, new chaser pages, Twitter integration and Facebook. We still have 2 new features we are working on, one of them technically works however is missing one part of the puzzle and the other is a integration with another weather product. Hopefully we can get all of this done in the next week or so!