Monday, August 11th, 2008
Discovered that there was a small issue with the ReadPath DNS after the move on friday to the new datacenter. It shouldn't have impacted end users at all as there are two DNS servers located in different networks and only one server was affected, but of course let me know ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
There was a bit of downtime today as ReadPath moved south down 280 to its new home. The servers for ReadPath are now located in a top tier data center. This will help keep PG&E from taking out the site when it decides to cut the power for a couple ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Finally, the look and feel of the ReadPath blog matches the main site. I'm still not sure if when you're on the blog site and you click on the main logo in the top bar, whether that should take you to the main page of the blog or the main ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
All of the different types of searches that you can do at ReadPath have now been updated.
On the News story search results we've added snippets to the results listing. The search engine does a quick scan of the content of the story to find the best snippet that is relevant ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
We've added User Archive Pages to ReadPath. These allow you to go back and see items that a user has published or shared in the past. These pages are at http://www.readpath.com/archive/{username}. You'll also see links to these pages on your Friends page when you read all unread items and are ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
There are quite a few small changes happening all over the site. These are all in an effort to increase the usability of ReadPath.
You'll notice that "Headlines" is now "My News". There were several fixes to make term usage consistent across the site, but we're still tracking things down. The ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
ReadPath has a new homepage. The design is still coming together so you'll probably see some more changes coming, but let us know what you think.
We've also update the page for logged in users. We're looking to provide a quick status and jumping off point for you to quickly see ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
I spent some time last night going over several of the underlying systems that run ReadPath. Determining if the Apache setup was optimal. Making sure that ReadPath is using the latest version of MySQL. Also doing some rough load testing with JMeter.
It's always nice to see that the blast type ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Did some profiling of ReadPath's javascript code last week because I was concerned with some slowness during updates when users had 1000's of subscriptions. When this happens the browser gets back a hash of counts of unread items for the subscriptions. If the count has changed from what the browser ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I've just updated the site to add the ability to save items and to view your saved items. Been making huge numbers of updates to the site in the last few days. Getting much closer to being feature complete.
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