That’s another day over, not too much time spent on the site today. I had to do some stuff with one of my other sites and a few other chores, but time at least to create a short post. What have I accomplished over the past couple of days, gor some more stuff done at the back end of the site. Also done a little bit of the data processing, which has all got to be changed from the way I used to do it.
I used to, well still do use a database for my aviation data. But this is a slightly different kettle of fish, I don’t want that setup for the data that I’m going to be putting on the site. I want a good old fashioned flat file, one generated by denormalizing a data base. And, we are up and running on that front, I have the latest file and have been testing against that, it all looks pretty good so far.
The resulting example files will be available soon, certainly before the end of the first week in June and probably sooner. The full data set is going to be pretty big, I’m not yet sure how big, but I think that it could be an uncompressed sixty plus Megabytes. At the moment I’m still writing the code to put the data in a format that people will want.