We’ve been working on some exciting features at oCricket. The score have been updated at the back-end to be more robust and you can expect a more powerful API pretty soon. In the meanwhile, we’ve added a Calendar (.ical) for all International Cricket Matches. You can add it to any of your Calendar application (iCal, [...]
The load balancing, auto scaling, and cloud monitoring features are now available for Amazon AWS. The features work together to help you to build highly scalable and highly available applications. Amazon CloudWatch monitors your Amazon EC2 capacity, Auto Scaling dynamically scales it based on demand, and Elastic Load Balancing distributes load across multiple instances in [...]
We’ve updated your profile feature so you add Phone numbers where we can send you free Cricket score updates via SMS (and may be text-to-speech for USA phones). Go ahead and update your profile with your phone number if you wish to get Free Cricket Score to your phone.
“This is a living document of best practices in developing and deploying with the Django Web framework. These should not be seen as the right way or the only way to work with Django, but instead best practices we’ve honed after years of working with the framework.”
Read the article in full – Django Best Practices.
The name ‘Seeker’ is derived from the position in the game of Quidditch from the world of Harry Potter. The seeker is the one who goes after snitch and is considered one of the smartest players in the game.
We intend to make our seeker equally smart; it will always get the latest Cricketing information for [...]
Hadoop as a service. Basically a web based GUI around Hadoop – you could roll this yourself on EC2 but for a small markup on regular EC2 prices you get to avoid the extra work setting everything up. Data processing scripts can be written in Java, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, R, or C++ and are [...]
We’ve released the special Cricket Talk, an enhanced Twitter stream powered by user suggested Cricket related keywords.
The app is powered by the user, which means, users suggest a keyword and is voted by other users. Once a keyword becomes hot enough, we track it and is relayed for other users to enjoy the Twitter Experience [...]
There’s plenty of material (documentation, blogs, books) out there that’ll help you write a site using Django… but then what? You’ve still got to test, deploy, monitor, and tune the site; failure at deployment time means all your beautiful code is for naught.
Read Read World Django as it unfolds the tutorial which examines how best [...]
We’ve just added the ability of users to accumulate RUNS. Runs are like reputations which you can get depending on your activities on oCricket. The more Runs you collect, your reputation and rank grows in the user hierarchy. More Runs also means, you’ve more power like editing someone’s content, voting down a comment, even moderating [...]
The Washington Times has released few open source projects. Visit Washington Times Open Source for more.
The Washington Times has used open source projects for some time now. All of our servers run Ubuntu linux. Our database servers use PostgreSQL. Our web servers use lighttpd and Apache httpd, and memcached. We develop entirely in python, using [...]
Very recently, we submitted oCricket to KillerStartups for a review and they’ve reviewed us. Please Vote for oCricket at KillerStartups.
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