Welcome to the DCR Weblog. You'll find website updates and historical information here.

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2008-08-19

• Registration (for events) form
  • Would like to make the ride registration form dynamic and dependent directly on rides listed in the event
  • Would also like to have a form for the CBA to add events to the ride events table.

2008-05-14

• Registration (for rides) form
  Basic form is displaying for membes or non-members (the latter requiring additoinal information to become a member.
  • Still need to program the validate for members and non-members table

2008-05-10

• Registration for rides
  • Need to create form for registation of rides and along with this there will be a need to create a new table to store this information

2008-01-10

• Powweb upgrades
  CGI Improvements and Unix Permissions Changes
  
  As a reminder, our hosting platform includes pools of servers for each of our services: machines that are dedicated to--and optimized for--specific applications (such as e-mail, CGI, e-commerce, etc.). This type of architecture allows us to customize each machine to the service it performs, which means more density per box, and ultimately, faster and more reliable services.
  
  As part of our ongoing efforts to improve CGI performance, we've begun the process of updating our CGI servers, blending our existing pooled architecture with some of the more traditional methods of Unix Web hosting.
  
  HOW DOES THIS BENEFIT ME?
  Our new configuration will produce the following benefits:
  
  * Faster fulfillment: Once you enable CGI for your account, you'll be able to use it right away.
  * Better performance: CGI servers will run faster, which means so will your pages and scripts.
  * Quicker Issue Resolution: Should something happen to one of our CGI servers, we'll be able to troubleshoot and resolve the issue more quickly.
  
  
  WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN?
  We plan to implement the new configuration in the near future, and we'll send an e-mail message to customers that use CGI once everything is in place. (So if you use CGI, keep your eyes on your Inbox!)
  
  WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?
  The short answer is "nothing." You should not need to update any paths, and your scripts should continue to function as they do now. Still, there *are* some changes you should be aware of:
  
  The new configuration adopts the more traditional (numeric) method of handling Unix file/directory permissions, and as a result, we've set permissions for customers' home directories to be 750. With this permissions setting, your scripts should continue to run as they always have, and it ensures that others won't have "write" access to your files.
  
  Please note: If you change your home directory permissions settings to something other than 750, you may be unintentionally giving others access to change or update your files. There are certain permissions settings that could potentially constitute a security risk (examples include 666 or 777). To protect all of our customers, scripts will not execute if permissions are changed to certain settings (such as 666 or 777).
  
  One final note: If you use the /tmp directory for temporary files, you will no longer be able to do so. You can, of course, place temporary files anywhere you'd like within your home directory.
  
  - 01/09/08 at 17:34 EDT

2007-11-12

• New Asks
  • Add form to allow upload of member picture. This will be moderated by the webmasters before going live.

2007-11-05

Below is a list of asks and updates to come.

• Work to be completed
  • Add results to homepage for one-click access
    This will probably be completed via RSS feeds from the blog when the results are updated only.
  • Add next event to homepage
    This already exists via the RSS feed from the blog, will make it more visible as the homepage content is better identified.
  • Add content to the Shenandoah 1200K page
  • Design layout for stories/info, and backfill info from years past
  • Backfill results from years past
  • Design layout for Photos page, offer form submission for photos as well as links to photo shares
  • Integrate content
    • Ride listing, Ride Leader, Calendar and Results.
    • Design results submission page for ride-coordinators