A blog that covers the development of the Airbana Airsoft applications
Not that this is going to affect anyone who isn’t a hardcore geek but Airbana is now accessible over IPv6.
The infrastructure is the same and IPv6 connectivity is provided by SixXS.
For those of you that have IPv6 connectivity there is an AAAA record for www.airbana.co.uk [and blog.airbana.co.uk] so no need to use the IPv6 literal [] URL.
Does this make Airbana the first IPv6 airsoft site?
Thanks to the uptake by some of the Site Operators I’ve been able to fix some issues with the XML RPC parsing functions which should ensure additional stability for users who utilise ASCII / HTML escape codes and HTML formatting in their XMLRPC.php files.
Due to the feedback received the site will (in the future) check for an XMLRPC file first and if that succeeds it will not display the locally stored prices or the “Sorry, but the site admin has not yet added any prices” message.
Due to the increased concern over minor vandalism the next major version of Airbana (Version 4) will allow Site Admins to request that a site be locked from public edit.
Apologies for the lack of updates, I’ve been in New York for the past couple of weeks.
The site has been well received with Blog posts, link backs, forum posts, emailed suggestions and best of all lots of usage!
62,841 unique visitors!!
Over 600 edits [a lot of these were the same thing being edited several times]
Over 30 events added
Over 1000 text’s sent!
12 new sites added
Hopefully Airbana is now the most up to date and comprehensive Airsoft map available. If it is missing any sites then by all means add it, I can’t imagine that anyone would object to free publicity.
I don’t have an e.t.a for Version 4 as I’m not only quite busy with work but I’m working on developing the API etc so the community as a whole can collaborate and share information.
If anyone has any suggestions or would like to help with Beta testing, blogging or helping maintain the site please email me here: gareth@airbana.co.uk
