Kappa and new scipt version

A new server started (again, sigh) and eddie is tracking the stats @ kappa now as well.

Also, we updated the ticker reporter script to work on kappa and fixed some bugs. The new version adds a link to the stats of a player or guild into the profile.

In case you have not received an update notification from the script, I ask you to click here to install the latest version. A change in the structure of the AE pages broke the script for some skins and also broke the update mechanism. Thank you.

Enjoy

No stats the last 4 days

Hi,

just realized that the stats did not update the last 4 days. A short investigation suggests that eddies IP address is on the block list on the astroempires servers. Nothing we can do technically, I will try to sort it out with the AE staff. Keep your fingers crossed. I will post updates when I have new information.

Feel free to comment here or on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002096791601">facebook</a>.


Update: Big congratz to the AE team and Ikai for responding within 2h to my email, even in the middle of the night. Right now we are unblocked again, just had a successful stats run. Talking with the AE team on further progress.

Perhaps I should invite them to a beer when I 'm over in portugal in 2 weeks


Eddie

Eddie is moving to a new server

Eddie is finally moving to a ne and better home. We will take him offline during the transition. DNS propagation might take a while, but we hope to back in an hour or so.

Hopefully fixed the stats

As you probably have noticed, there have been some problem with the stats service. Eddie was showing some screwed numbers. Unfortunately, i was in the middle of completely rewriting the code that does the parsing and did not want to chase the bug in the 'old' version. But, completing the new version took me way longer than expected due to some RL stuff going on. And when i had time AE went down so i could not test..

Sorry for all this, but last night i installed the new version and did an initial import for beta and epsilon. The other servers will be processed in a few hours. To fix the messed up graphs i needed to delete the data for the last 15 days. Unfortunately, this means we now have a gap in the data from 02.02.20011 till 17.02.2011. Sorry for this guys.

There is still a bug in the guild ownership of a player. The player history is correct but not the display above the graph. I hope to fix this soonish...

I 'm still unsure where all this is coming from. The problem comes from the formatting of the numbers, I expect (and until 15 days ago) received them in german formatting, Now i get them in english formatting. It must something on my side, but i have not igured out what is causing this..


Also, AE hast changed the speed limit, parsing is even slower than before. Background: some month ago, they implemented an DDoS preventing that would block your IP if you make more than XX number of request per minute. Haven't talked to the admins yet (guess they have better things to do right now) but it looks like its now XX/2 .. Somehow this system seems not to prevent DDoS through..

Eddie recently joined facebook. Not sure what to do there, right now i will just post the same stuff as here on the blog. Looks like people are more willing to comment there then they do here. And yes, i read the comments here. Sorry for not answering sooner..

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002096791601

Sheduled downtime for hardware maintance

Due to recent problems with the hardware of the server, our hoster offered a replacement. The move should hopefully not take too long, but Eddie will be offline either today or tomorrow.

Update (2011.02.02): The transition was done yesterday evening with only 2 minutes downtime. Thanks to BK for his work.

Downtime for new version

We will take Eddie down again for upgrading. Lets hope it works better this time.

Edit: up again, doing some testing

Edit 2: Ok, we had to restart again to fix some small glitches. I ask everybody to reinstall the public Ticker script to make sure it works correct.

So, what has changed? I hope you see no changes, as this would mean that i missed a bug... Still, this is a major update simplifying future development and easing the load on the server. With this change out of the door and more time in RL, i hope to speed up (well, continue, the last year did not see any changes) of the development. Stay tuned.

Enjoy Eddie

Downtime while installing new version

We are installing a new version on the server right now. Hopefully the little issue we have right now will be solved soon.

Change has been rolled back and last version restored. We will try again soon ;)

Edit:

Just been noticed that the service is down right now. Unfortunately, i 'm at work and can 't look into the issue.

Edit 2:
Up and running again. Note to self: don 't install stuff in the middle of night..