Orkutfeeds Blog http://blog.orkutfeeds.com Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:09:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 OrkutFeedshttp://feedburner.google.com Caching Support Added http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2009/02/13/caching-support-added/ http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2009/02/13/caching-support-added/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:08:49 +0000 Rahul Bansal http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/?p=53 Just now completed caching, one of the longest pending task on my TO-DO list for Orkutfeeds.

Strangely, it took just 1 hour of coding and 2 hours of designing/thinking to implement caching! Had I known this earlier, OrkutFeeds would have never went down.

Anyway I hope service will run smoothly atleast for next few months. I don’t have enough free time to spend more on this free and ad-free (till now atleast) service.

Caching Duration

One bad thing with caching is you won’t get updates from Orkut instantly. But if you have time to follow updates every second, why don’t you just log into Orkut!

Anyway just for info, here are caching duration for different type of feeds.

  • Scrapbook feed - 10 minutes
  • Topic feed - 30 minutes
  • Community feed - 60 minutes

Adjusting these values are fairly easy on our end. So any discussion/suggestion related to these numbers are most welcomed. :-)

As usual, with any change, new bugs may popup over the time. Catch them if you can! ;-)

]]> http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2009/02/13/caching-support-added/feed/ OrkutFeeds is UP now… http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2009/02/06/orkutfeeds-is-up-now/ http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2009/02/06/orkutfeeds-is-up-now/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:20:47 +0000 Rahul Bansal http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/?p=50 Orkutfeeds is UP again and ready to burn feeds for your scrapbook, communities & favorite topics! :-)

Enjoy… :-)

]]> http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2009/02/06/orkutfeeds-is-up-now/feed/ OrkutFeeds will be down for a week http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2009/02/01/orkutfeeds-will-be-down-for-a-week/ http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2009/02/01/orkutfeeds-will-be-down-for-a-week/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:56:54 +0000 Rahul Bansal http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2009/02/01/orkutfeeds-will-be-down-for-a-week/ We are sorry to announce but we have to take down Orkutfeeds service completely for a major update.

As posted on our main blog, we have recently shifted to dedicated private servers which cost us a lot. Also as we do not make any money from OrkutFeeds, we can’t let this resource hungry service to burn holes in our pockets.

The only solution which seems good enough now, is to re-code most part of it with exclusive support for caching. That way we can reduce load on our server as well as on Orkut server by 80%. Atleast as per our calculation.

Call for PHP geeks…

If you are a PHP geek and like to volunteer for next version of Orkutfeeds, please contact us.

As we are not making any money from this service as of now, your efforts will not be monetized immediately. But we have plan to make money from this service in future and if you happen to be with us there on timeline, we will surely make you rich! ;-)

Sorry once again for downtime. I hope to fix everything within a week.

Till then enjoy updates from our newly launched blog on Orkut – Orkut Diary.

]]> http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2009/02/01/orkutfeeds-will-be-down-for-a-week/feed/ 2 More bug fixed! Community Feeds Improved! http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2008/10/08/2-more-bug-fixed-community-feeds-improved/ http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2008/10/08/2-more-bug-fixed-community-feeds-improved/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:06:24 +0000 Rahul Bansal http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/?p=46 Just fixed 2 more bugs…

#1. New Orkut URL’s which have /Main# in them were creating problem.

Its completely fixed now. ;-)

And we are sure fix will work as long as Orkut don’t do any nasty change! :P

#2. Many users reported that they were seeing “moved temporarily” in feeds in place of actual content.

I did some thing to fix this as well. I hope you won’t get “moved temporarily”  error anymore.

Some more problems….

Scrapbook feeds may return empty when checking from browser. This will not affect or irritate any user subscribed using some feed-reader as they don’t show empty output! ;-)

Reason for this is our bot is doing so much orkutting that orkut can not offer enough donuts to him. :-(

So whenever orkut denied donuts to bot, it returns empty output. This is better than error messages.

Hey wait, did I say it is affecting scrapbook only?? Yep! Community feeds are served by a different bot account now. :D

Just bear with our poor service for few more days…  we will be adding support for your own account, with lots of other exciting features soon! :P

Thanks Rupesh for bringing reporting these bugs… :-)

]]> http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2008/10/08/2-more-bug-fixed-community-feeds-improved/feed/ Just for info… http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2008/08/08/just-for-info/ http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2008/08/08/just-for-info/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:30:41 +0000 Rahul Bansal http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/?p=42 We have just shifted our blog from http://www.orkutfeeds.com/blog/ to http://blog.orkutfeeds.com.

Writing this just to inform you, in case if you notice change in URLs!

If you have bookmarked any our blog post or subscribed to our feed, do not bother much as every link will be redirected transparently to new locations. :-)

I have posted about whole experience on my main blog, Devils Workshop.

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