More on PoliticsPosters
Okay, so day one of that site is over, with some lessons learned and some serious improvements made! About 11AM, just as I was trundling along the M25 on my way to Egham, TheyWorkForYou made a change to their API method, getMP, which PoliticsPosters uses to find your MP from your postcode (or at least [...]
Welcome to Pandora
We’ve successfully moved all sites, email, DNS, and everything else on our old server, Highpoint, to our brand new machine, Pandora. This has entailed a lot more downtime than we’d anticipated; this has mostly been due to lack of preparation on my part, a glorious DNS cock-up and the added complexity of having Highpoint’s backhaul [...]
The importance of APIs in broadcast
We use a program called Myriad for all our broadcast automation, asset management and general playout purposes. It’s made by a company called P Squared, who are a very able and friendly bunch of people and who make ultimately a fairly decent product. However, as with anything these days, a single app isn’t sufficient no [...]