New site launched: MLB baseball tickets mlbticketsstore.com
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Few days ago I finally got done with last enhancements on new site commisioned by US SEO guys. It is about MLB baseball tickets. Main features:
- harvests baseball tickets data from several sources. Harvest tooks about 3,5 hours which is kind of too much but I hope that when new dedicated server is up and running we will lower the harvest time (altough tickets count is reached 600K+ and soon we will have to switch to more powerful RDBMS like PostgreSQL);
- detects visitors’ country and state by IP and shows appropriate content targeted at that area (i.e. shows events and tickets for teams from that state);
- have “special” treatment toward googlebot - it is more friendly, i.e. for usual visitors content on index.php is changing each time (if bot is detected). For googlebot we made friendly 1 hour cache, so it will not see changed content all the time (but once per hour);
- it has extensive control panel that allows import from different CSV files with venues, events, genres, etc items maintaning in the same time DB integrity and eliminating duplicate data;
- sitemap.xml is generated automatically for all semidynamic pages;
- site is built using Tangra PHP framework;
We still have a lot of work to do on this site but State 1 is completed and site is now released and online.
Наскоро се наложи да помагам на един познат, който си търсеше работа. Пича имаше уникалния лош късмет от 10 обяви за работа да избере най-скапания работодател. В последния месец редовно ми пращаше разни обяви от itjobs, за да си давам псевдоавторитетното мнение и в крайна сметка му намерихме прилична работа (след две интервюта (2 са много, трябва от първото :-) )).
Преди час-два свърши мача на Левски с белоруския клуб със забавното име БАТЕ Борисов. За срам и ужас левскарите играха без всякакво въображение и не успяха да разцепят тези пишман футболистчета от отбора на тракторния завод.

