With the excitement of the elections and the AV referendum we deployed some micro-app code last week and then Release 112 of the core system this week. Here's what went out...
PA feed for election & AV referendum
We developed the mechanism to poll the Press Association (PA) feed by FTP to get the latest election data on 5 and 6 May and store it in the micro-app cache for use by front-end components such as the Flash interactive.
Tag mappings
New mappings between Guardian tags and external references (eg
Musicbrainz IDs) were taking up to a week to show up in the API. The reason is that they were only being index when the full set of tags was indexed on a Tuesday morning. We have now changed the mapping manager to "touch" the last live time of the tag when a mapping is added, changed or deleted so that it is caught in the next partial index. These mappings should now appear in the API after a couple of minutes.
Stop redirecting comment pages to the mobile site
There are no comments on the mobile site, so comment pages will no longer be redirected to the mobile site.
Image on print pages
A new addition is the ability for our production staff to add an image/logo (that can link to a website) to the top right corner of the print-format pages on guardian.co.uk with the image appearing on screen and on the printer version.
Other small changes and fixes around the site
- A third ad slot has been added to some key pages
- New look and feel to the sign-in process for some of our products
