Jan 1, 2007 — We’ve refreshed the look at MeasurementDevices.com for the New Year.
Hope you like it.
We did the same with Measurement Databases, but somehow they wound up looking nearly identical. We’ll work on that.
We also made a similar change on MeasurementMedia, but reverted to a reduced-width view of the original format after encountering some technical problems.
We appreciate your patience with these site changes and welcome feedback.
Jan 3, 2007 — It has been our experience from putting lots of RSS newsfeeds on our websites, that many of them do not appear to function well on a website. That seems strange, but then again, this is the Web, and there are many variations on a theme.
There’s a website, xml.com that takes the time to describe the seven different types of newsfeeds and gives examples of each. It also refers to an O’Reilly book, “What Are Syndication Feeds” by Shelly Powers. Now, it goes into the depths, but also provides some of the answers to troubling questions that arise.
This site, for example, is powered by a software package call WordPress. It supports the three most popular RSS formats, but as a default, it offers RSS 2.0, the latest format. We are going to change that to RSS 1.0, for good reasons.
Blogger at Google.com, a free, software-less blogging outfit, by default only provides feeds in ATOM and RSS 1.0 formats, according to the book, with no other options.
Most RSS readers wil accomodate most of the feed formats, but not all.
So, if you are looking for one of your news feeds on one of our websites, you must realize that the basic software on our content sites evidently does not support RSS 2.0, either. As far as we are aware it only supports RSS 0.91 and possibly RSS 1.0. We are working on ways to make that more capable.
In fact, our original website is still basically an html site and has no intrinsic RSS capability. We are able to show the TempSensor.net news feed through the help of a third party website that converted the RSS 0.91 feed into Javascript.
Seems there’s never a day that we don’t learn something new!
Sept 10, 2006 — After the start of MeasurementDB.com on Sept 5, 2006, we were not fully happy with the look & feel of the site.
So, we changed it, hopefully you agree for the better. It seems a bit more organized, too. Now, the researchers and developers dealing with measurements and measurement technology have a place where they can feel a bit more at home. The look was changed with a new template, but more importantly, we realized that it had the news articles on R&D intact from the transfer from MeasurementDevices and no plans to continue them at that site.
Now we have available a news feed exclusively about the news of R&D in measurement and measurement device technologies. This is far better and will be supplemented shortly by adding the live newsfeed outputs from other websites dealing with research and development topics related to measurement.
It also seems better suited to this database directory website, since most are of a very technical nature and will be attractive to a professional audience.
Tomorrow, 5 September 2006, Tuesday, is the “Official” end to routine data updating of certain portions of the databases and articles archives on TempSensor.net and MeasurementDevices.com. The key portions of them have been relocated to our other sites and, as of tomorrow, updates will take place there.
Notices have been posted on the Web Links portions of the MeasurementDevices.com site and will be similarly posted on TempSensor.net by the end of the day tomorrow..we hope and expect.
Thanks for your patience.
Welcome to MeasurementBlog. We’re making some changes. Please bear with us for a day or two more.
Thanks.