Archive for the 'Orkutfeeds' Category

Caching Support Added

February 13th, 2009

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 [...]

OrkutFeeds is UP now…

February 6th, 2009

Orkutfeeds is UP again and ready to burn feeds for your scrapbook, communities & favorite topics!
Enjoy…

Sorry for disruption of service… :-(

May 25th, 2008

After long time I am updating this Orkutfeeds blog and unfortunately I have a bad news.
Thanks to all of your love, orkutfeeds has been growing quite fast.
There are more than 3000 requests are made from our end to orkut server everyday and with a single google account is doing all the job, we are [...]

We are not affiliated with MyToday

April 24th, 2008

Lately, I am getting so many emails/comments/scraps complaining about MyToday.
Pavan started it, and then me and many fellow bloggers posted about how MyToday can be used to get scraps on mobile for free.
It seems like being a free service MyToday reached its limitations and they are failing to handle high volume of traffic.
Some users complained [...]

Orkutfeeds User Guide [Documentation]

April 15th, 2008

Usually documentation is the first thing done when launching a service. But being lazy and busy, I delayed it so long.
Actually most bloggers covered many details so I was never bothered in first place to write a manual. But for the sake of formality, the user guide is here.
I know documentation means a much [...]

Orkutfeeds is more stable & reliable now!

April 3rd, 2008

Although I said last night that community & topic feeds were back, they were keep breaking throughout the day…
So what I did is know separated code for all 3 types of feeds viz. scrapbook, community & topic feeds. The major advantage of this separation is increased reliability.  So as an example, if something goes wrong [...]

Community & Topics Feeds Are UP Again!

April 2nd, 2008

Just tested and all feeds are seems working well.
Please let me know if anything breaks again.
Sorry for inconvenience and delay but life is busy like hell here…

Community & Topics feeds are taken down for maintenance. Sorry for inconvenience!

April 1st, 2008

From evening (around 10 hours) I am receiving emails/scraps regarding problem in the feeds.
There is some problem is session management code which will take more time to figure it out.
I am using SVN here so I am reverting everything to old version where we didn’t have any support for community & topic feeds.
I thought [...]

Resolved – Community & Topic feeds are working again!

March 29th, 2008

Just resolved community & topic feeds duplicate items issue.
Sorry all for inconvenience.
Please don’t get annoyed if something goes wrong again. Just contact me via comments/email or anyway as per your convenience.
This is my first project in PHP as well as in public domain so it will take some time for me to fix [...]

Open Issue with community and topic feeds…

March 28th, 2008

Sorry for all community and topic feeds subscribers. If you are using Google reader then you may be annoyed with duplicates items…
Just saw this new issue while leaving my PC. Will fix in it in next 24 hours.
Sorry for inconvenience…