Lately the Server that hosts Whats my train has been plagued with some hardware failure. The service has been up and down lately and we are sorry to those of you who have been getting spammed when it comes back online.
Things are looking better now and the service should remain operating as planned.
Well we learned the hard way that parsing messages correctly is hard when it is coming in different formats. As we make the BETA public, the messages that we recieve have had unexpected formats. We think we have addressed this for now and the system is now cooking again.
I just finished and enabled active monitoring. The website will now show if the whats my train application is running and accepting requests or not.
We are now running on MS Visual Studio C# Express development environment with SQL Express 2008 backend DB. whoooo…. Now we can better keep track of what users search for to further improve our system.
Fixed a display bug in IE where the margin:auto style was not being applied correctly. I have been assuming that the simplicity of the website should allow IE and firefox to render it the same… haha Wrong!
IE does not apply margin:auto correctly (IE6 and IE7) however it (incorrectly) applies text-align:center to the position of the div that its attached to. So I had to text-align:center the container div and then text-align:left the inner div to fix the text. Now everything looks similar in IE and FF… and there was much rejoicing.