Wednesday, June 17, 2009

What happened to the web site?

I don't know how closely you've been looking at the web site, but some strange stuff has happened since I last looked here.

Firstly, some updates that I'm sure I put on line have just gone away. That was the "what our next show will be" stuff. No idea where that went...

The other was that our "Latest Blog Updates" went away. Now this is actually quite clever stuff.

Our blog is hosted by Google. Our web site is hosted by 1and1. When you come to the home page, a little program running on the web server asks Google for the latest blog updates, picks out the interesting bits, and then shows them on screen.

Unfortunately, Google has changed the way it gives us back the latest blog updates. It's changed from RSS to Atom. Which means that the code that used to look "here" for certain information has to look "there" - where "there" is somewhere different from before.

So i think I've now got it working, though I am aware that I'm missing a date for blog posts. That will come soon, I hope!