I’m moving this blog off of my server using WordPress over to Posterous. The new blog is http://jetrecordblog.posterous.com and will eventually be available at http://blog.jetrecord.com. If you follow the RSS feed, you’ll want to head over to the new blog. Otherwise, this change won’t affect you much.
That is all for now.
Cheers!
Howdy!
Yep, I’m still here. And work continues on Jetrecord. But there’s not much to say at the moment. I’m only writing to let you know that I’m doing some winter cleaning on the site and I’ve decided that it’s time to delete any unwanted accounts.
So, if that’s you, meaning you don’t want a Jetrecord account anymore, all you have to do is absolutely nothing. On December 15 I’m going to start deleting accounts for anyone who hasn’t logged in between now and then.
On the other hand, if you want to keep your account and your flights, you have until December 14 to login to Jetrecord at least once. You must login in order to keep your account. You don’t have to log any flights or do anything else. Just login.
By the way, you can login here: http://jetrecord.com/login
There are two reasons for this. The most important one is that I’ve switched to a new, more secure authentication scheme and it involves migrating your password. In order to migrate, you have to login. I can’t do it automatically.
The second reason is that I want to clean the house, so to speak. Jetrecord has a free account, which makes it really easy to sign up and give the service a try at no risk. But that also means that there’s no incentive to use it. And if you’re not going to use the service, there’s no reason to have an account.
Of course, as always, there will continue to be a free account, no matter what happens in the future with paying accounts. If you don’t want your account now, you can create a new account later on if you wish.
Obviously, this decision is important for you if you have flights stored on Jetrecord. If you do, and you’ve decided not to keep your account, you can export those flights to several different formats of logbook software.
You can export your flights here: http://jetrecord.com/YOUR-USERNAME/flights . Scroll to the bottom of your flights page. There is a drop-down box where you can select the software you want. Then hit the Go button.
Of course, to export your flights, you have to login. And if you login, I’ll assume you want to keep your account. If you export your flights and decide you still want to delete your account, you can do that here: http://jetrecord.com/account/confirm_delete . You will have to confirm that you want to delete your account. Once you do, your account and all of your flights will be deleted immediately.
If you have any questions about this, just let me know (support@jetrecord.com). The important thing to remember is: to keep your account, login to Jetrecord by December 14.
Cheers,
Harry
This last month has been a slow one for Jetrecord, if only in terms of performance. The once-snappy server environment got bogged down and there didn’t appear to be any reason for it.
I would love to tell you that we got famous and were seeing record growth, but that’s not the case. We just hit something in the road and no one could figure out what.
A quick ticket to our host confirmed that we weren’t crazy (well, if you don’t count the fact that we refer to ourselves in the first person plural when it’s just one person running things.) Apparently sites of all kinds were seeing trouble with the particular version of the OS we were on. They offered to move us to a new, updated version for no charge. Of course, we accepted.
Migrating everything over, getting all the settings, the data, the cron jobs, the symlinks, and all else is no small feat, so it took a little longer than expected. As of right now, though, you’re reading this from our clean-as-a-whistle server, so it looks like everything worked.
And I made sure to migrate the data several times just to confirm that the precious flight logs would be in good hands. We’re backing up twice a day, same as always. And I did the final migration right as the DNS was switched, which means that even if you were editing right up to the last minute, it should be there. Of course, let me know if you see otherwise.
Anyway, performance should be back up to where it was before the slowdown. There are more changes coming but I’m not able to speak to those right now. The most important change coming is that I’m going to be a dad for the second time, to another boy, some time in the next few weeks. If I take longer to answer your emails, you’ll know why.
Cheers!
Was supposed to be quick, but these things never are when you’re the only one working on it. Should have said the next night.
“How many lumps do you want? Oh, three or four.”
Logbook Pro joins the growing list of logbook software supported by Jetrecord for importing and exporting your flights, with one caveat. Logbook Pro doesn’t export to standard CSV format and Jetrecord will only import files in standard CSV format.
To get around this and import your flights into Jetrecord (until Logbook Pro is updated), one small step is required. Import your Logbook Pro CSV export file into Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice first and then re-save as CSV. When you do the import into one of these programs, make sure all fields are imported as text and then re-save as CSV. After you have saved the file, make sure all fields have double quotes around them by inspecting the file in a simple text editor.
Now import your file into Jetrecord as usual and all should go well. Note that you can also export all of your flights into Logbook Pro CSV format if you want.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments about this feature. Mucho thanks to Todd “MyFlightBlog” McClamroch for requesting this feature and helping me with testing.
Cheers,
Harry
Jetrecord is an online logbook for pilots like you.
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