Where is Ken?

[i_fiorentino]

Hi guys,
do you know where is Ken??
It's a lot of time that i don't see any post from him.
Best regards,

Alessandro

[saratogaWX]

Hi Alessandro!

I'm here.. just a bit bogged down with catching up after the lovely vacation cruise to New Zealand and Australia over Christmas/New Years.  I had lunch with two weather friends in Auckland (Arthurhh and Tokkiwi), and went to Brian Hamilton's house for a tour of the western headlands and met his lovely family.

I'm slowly getting back into gear to release some updates to scripts (including the mesomap/mesomap-loadcache software) to remove items deprecated in PHP5 so newer installations won't have the Deprecated Function errata that are now showing up.  Multiple scripts/templates have to be changed to replace functions:

ereg() with preg_match()
ereg_replace() with preg_replace()
split() with either preg_split() or explode()

Unfortunately, the syntax has to change for the regular expressions, so it's not just a search-and-replace the function call

Meanwhile, I've been in contact with Alexandros in Greece and am starting up a 'Hellas Meteo Network' for Greece.

Best regards,
Ken

[Stillweather]

Hi Ken,

Welcome back! I am in the process of moving the domain for NEWN/NAWN from GoDaddy to 1&1. Not sure if this is causing an issue with NEWN but for some reason there seems to be a problem with the icons, currently the nightime icons are showing during the day! Maybe some kind of server time issue? If you get the chance check it out, let me know if there is something I should do!!

Thanks,

Jack

[saratogaWX]

Hi Jack,

Yes, the NAWN master pull for conditions (etc) seems to be broken, as is the NEWN conditions pull.  Last run was
Fri, 29-Jan-2010 01:17:02 EST

Would you mind emailing me the credentials for the new site FTP and SSH and I can fix it up Don't need after all, I have them still.

Best regards,
Ken

[saratogaWX]

Hi Jack.. think I've fixed it (using same credentials as before).

When you implemented the Atom-advisory multifeed, you'd removed the cron entries to run NEWN loadcache and the NAWN global conditions/config pulls.  I've put them back in crontab for NEWN/NAWN.

Best regards,
Ken

[grant]

Welcome back Ken,

Good to see you enjoyed yourself in NZ and managed to catch up with a few people. Sorry I couldn't get anything together to meet up with you in Christchurch, but things were just so hectic over here.

best regards
Grant

[Stillweather]

When you implemented the Atom-advisory multifeed, you'd removed the cron entries to run NEWN loadcache and the NAWN global conditions/config pulls.  I've put them back in crontab for NEWN/NAWN.

Sorry about that Ken! Since I moved stillweather.com to the server I experimented with the cron (never had it before). Leave it to me to screw it up! Glad you could fix it and I learned my lesson to be more careful now!

Jack

[racenet]

Do we need to change anything in our scripts for NEWN, as it appears to be down right now? Or, do we just need to wait for things on your end?



Bob

[saratogaWX]

Hi Bob,
You shouldn't need to change anything on your end .. the collection process for data is working fine now, so your map conditions should be current.

Best regards,
Ken

[racenet]

Ken,

Thanks.

Yep, looks like things are back up and running this morning.



Bob