MikeCAdministrator
(Admin)
Wed Jun 17 2009 02:46 PM
Re: Why isn't FLHurricane on Twitter yet?

There are 3 of them right now, but the RDF format isn't liked by IE, so it's on the list to redo at some point. One strictly for active storms, one strictly for news updates, and another for blog updates. It's all listed in the RSS/XML News Page.

The line of text on the top left along with the article is what would be published to something like twitter if it were. (Same idea).

Once the RSS is redone and the rest of the Web Services get finished it'll be trivial to add to the others. Parts of them are done already, but are only used internally right now.

Most of the work this year has been refactoring a lot of the original code so that I can move parts of it to a new platform slowly. Ie, rewriting sections to be a lot more object oriented and using services. The visible benefit is better handling of the image servers, and much much better manipulation of animated plots and storm info. Invest tracking is better too, but it's going to get a lot better hopefully by the end of the season. Interactive Imagery and Satellites Photos are coming too, geared to discussions.

The site also is trying to stay friendly to low bandwidth people as well, because during storms it may be your only option. Another thing being worked on is a really good mobile phone model geared for that. (Oh I need to know what the heck is going on relative to me... Is the goal. The geared to you part is the most important.)




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