Does anyone use this RSS stuff?

[webcraft]

So, Woody,

You would seem to be yet another opinionated internet expert who knows better than anyone else and is making a fortune in spite of the fact that they can't punctuate, spell or use capital letters correctly and have only a very basic grasp of grammar. Well done.

This website that 'cleans' 800k a month - something to do with money laundering is it?

Business analysis indeed - this way to board the 'B' ark - the giant mutant star goat is almost here.

- Nick

 

[kimhollamby]

The jumbly stuff just temporary

Triggering the RSS feeds revealed an underlying problem, they didn't cause it per se.

Should find everything is okay again now.

 

[kimhollamby]

Very 1990s

Well actually you're right on the button there insofar as ybw.com sites have been going since 1997, which makes them fairly ancient in Internet years. There are some parts of the site that date back that far in terms of technical infrastructure and other parts that are more modern.

Like so many of the 'burst bubble' survivors out there we had a pretty tricky time of it at the turn of the decade but we have been cleaning up a fair bit of the code of late and you'll carry on seeing changes to various of our sites in the months ahead. I'm personally pleased that we managed to steer these sites through some difficult times, largely due to the efforts of the small team here who, contrary to your assertions, are in fact very capable.

We're looking forward to carrying on with the many seen and unseen improvements listed for attention over the next few months, both to directly improve the websites and to provide complemenary services for our magazines.

 

[Sgeir]

Re: The jumbly stuff just temporary

Thanks Kim. It might be worth looking at the site write-up re RSS. All the techies might know what it means, but mere mortals find the explanatory pages difficult to understand. (Well OK, I don't understand it).

For example how do you feed it into a browser? What do we need to do to set it up?

 

[BrendanS]

Re: The jumbly stuff just temporary

Just type 'pluck' into google. The high hit rate might convince you it's a genuine app

http://www.pluck.com/

It feeds straight into a browser

 

[Superstrath]

"Cleans £800K a month" (I removed the apostrophe)
This implies a profit of £800k a month - or £960k a year. Call it a Billion. That's up there with RBoS or BP. Not bad off a wesite.
Even if it was a Turnover of £800k it's still a spectacular number for a website, or for any business at all, come to that.
What is it?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

I don't think that the rudeness about the efforts of Kim and his team is neccessary do you?........Its common for him, or one of the rest of the team to be around responding to posts late into the night or at weekends.... and they don't charge for this site!

Anyway... an £800k per month website isn't delivered by an individual.. its a team effort... it has all sorts of other stuff like SSL acceleration, is probably built around one of the better known high spec web servers, with a dedicated app engine, and at least a performant database server, with probably front end caching and load balancing to push static content off the main processing system.....

See...you'll find that some of the rest of us know a bit about this stuff too.....

And 'bad backup system that stops the website'... thats one hell of a piece of guesswork.... and this is an area that I do know about.......

so come on... 'fess up... what £800k a month site have you built?

 

[kimhollamby]

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And 'bad backup system that stops the website'... thats one hell of a piece of guesswork.... and this is an area that I do know about.......

[/ QUOTE ]

The backups happen at a time when most sane people in this part of the world are several hours into their sleep cycle. Ditto the indexing of the static site pages.

We do have sites here in full content managed environments; for a variety of reasons ybw.com sites are not there yet but the technology is there ready for when we choose to do the not inconsiderable job of moving it all across.

The issue that has been causing a slow down on the forums recently has been the generation of the various includes for site homepages and latterly generation of the RSS feeds. This should now be sorted...but we'll keep an eye on it.

 

[Superstrath]

Oi, NAS, wasn't me being rude!

 

[kimhollamby]

At the moment...

...I have put up some links to explanations on Wikipedia (including a list of software for different operating systems) but I'll see if we can condense down a useful explanation for the RSS page.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

No... sorry, was aimed at Woody......

 

[duncan]

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£800k a month - or £960k a year

[/ QUOTE ] - wouldn't that be 9.6m a year?

but agree the principle

 

[woody001]

Iam so confesed i dont know what to say, i, mean iam really good at spalling, whats wrung with it?
NAS - what did you aim at me?
Iam so scared, You sad person!

 

[woody001]

look, chill everyone

 

[Superstrath]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
£800k a month - or £960k a year

[/ QUOTE ] - wouldn't that be 9.6m a year?

but agree the principle

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah, now I'm awake I can count. Sorry.

 

[DeeGee]

[ QUOTE ]
this website does not get high traffic......

[/ QUOTE ]Well, as a self proclaimed expert who manages to confuse things pretty well, I have to tell you this link is not operating. Perhaps you forgot to clean it ?

 

[woody001]

what exactly are you on about?

 

[DeeGee]

[ QUOTE ]
what exactly are you on about?

[/ QUOTE ]
Your swedish lady is no lady.

I think that if you are a pro, then slagging off this site and telling everyone you are an expert, is misleading.

 

[woody001]

Deegee - Shut up you old git

 

[woody001]

No one slags of my swedish lady