Blog: Team Communications

Getting wget and cron onto the same page

Managing News is starting to move past proof of concept, and we’ve officially begun working to improve its core performance. Earlier this week RH Reality Check – the latest organization we’ve customized the tool for - told us that Managing News wasn’t pulling in new content from RSS feeds as often as it should have been. In some cases feeds hadn’t been updated in a week. And an aggregator with week-old news certainly doesn’t enhance an organizations communications capacity. Here's an image of one of its feeds "thinking."

When Alex looked into the issue, he found another one – duplicate feeds. Luckily what at first seemed like two big problems was fixed with just one tiny change (and a lot of Alex’s brainpower, of course).