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Monday 27 December 2010

We're pushing out an interim build today, version 3.65. We've corrected a couple of minor bugs and added one important new feature. Now, the individual reports on the weather lists we described below can have alternate titles to make them more useful. You'll notice this immediately on the NFL Football list on the main page.

The 3.7 release will allow you to create your own weather lists and decide what goes on your own home page. We hope to get that out before the end of January.

Monday 13 December 2010

Welcome to Weather Now version 3.6. Today we're rolling out a couple of under-the-hood features that you might not notice right away.

First, the Home page page now gets the weather lists it displays from the database. This means we can change what shows up without pushing new bits out, and we can pre-populate lists ahead of time. You'll notice this from time to time, for example during U.S. NFL Football season, when the sites of the coming week's home games will show up Tuesday, as if by magic.

Second, we've added caching to the site in a couple of key places. Code profiling showed a couple of hotspots, which the switch to database-housed weather lists exacerbated. The home page should load about 60% faster now; some of the other pages should be slightly quicker as well.

We made another significant change back on Nov 19, when we upgraded the site to Microsoft .NET 4.0 and the Inner Drive Extensible Architecture™ 2.0. There were a couple of bug fixes as well, none of them major.