digital:pardoe

Server Changes

Well, it would appear I had forgotten a little snippet of information that has been forced to the forefront of my mind over the last few days. My web host had been bought out by another company, everything had been running fine till they initiated a server move a couple of days ago. At first my website disappeared from the internet completely, then it came back, with no content because my host had completely switched systems. If you are reading this then as you can probably tell I have finally managed to get everything working again.

To the users of the website and iSyncIt (Sparkle) I apologize for the last few hectic days. The website and appcasts should, all being well, remain online more permanently now. For the next few hours (possibly days) the photography page is being loaded purely from cache (due to some dependency issues) and changes in my Flickr account will not be reflected on the website.

Many apologies again, I’m hoping the madness will now stop, check back soon.

Hi, Again

After a flurry of activity over the summer it would appear that moving back to university has taken me out of my stride as far as developing and maintaining the website goes. However I am going to try and manage my time better in the coming weeks and increase the activity on the website. Hopefully what I write below will help to clarify this.

In regards to iSyncIt, the 1.3 release is moving on well, albeit a little slowly at the moment, I am aiming to release it within the next week if my workload and university commitments don’t pile up to quickly. In a sort of executive decision I have decided, with Leopard dropping onto my doorstep next Friday that 1.3 will be the last release for Tiger, assuming there are no major problems. My main reason for doing this is that I don’t really have the time to simultaneously maintain two versions of the software, nor do I wish to run two different OSs.

Again, workload permitting, I am hoping to update the Western Digital My Book icon set to incorporate the new style drives that have been announced by Western Digital. It would appear that my current set are quite popular and I don’t want to disappoint.

Finally, the website went through a short migration earlier this week, hence a small amount of downtime (yet again). Everything appears to be working fine, but if you notice some unusual glitches please contact me.

I think that’s about all I have to vent about for now. Check back soon and roll on Leopard.

Problems

I am aware that there were a few problems with the website earlier today and most visitors that weren’t downloading files received “HTTP 500” errors. The problem turned out to be a rouge FastCGI process that was created and wouldn’t shut down or handle requests, I have shut the process down manually now and all systems should be running fine.

On another note regarding problems, I have been made aware of a bug in iSyncIt that causes iSyncIt to crash under certain circumstances. I have only had one actual report of this but if you have also being experiencing problems please contact me through the website. Please include details of your system, language etc. in your bug report. I am working on a fix as you read this.

Thanks in advance, check back soon.

Small Update

iSyncIt has been updated yet again, just a few localization corrections, not much else. Download it here.

Check back soon.

New iSyncIt

Well, I’m posting this a little late, I had completely forgotten about posting information about the update on my own website, yet I’d posted on everyone else’s. That’s right iSyncIt 1.2 has been released and as always you can download it here. The main changes in this release are the introduction of German localization, to match this iSyncIt is now bundled with the localized version of the Sparkle update engine. As for interface enhancements the time of last sync is now shown in the menu, this time comes from iSyncIt’s own records rather than iSync’s records. I have also introduced a menu bar icon that changes depending on the current bluetooth status again this is a work in progress but works well if you use iSyncIt to control your bluetooth power.

That’s all for now, check back soon.