Weekly Release

We’ve pushed out our weekly release this week which sets our our product for it’s public launch very soon. Here’s a breakdown of what’s in this release:

In the Web Application:

• We had a lot of beta users asking for the ability to update account information. We just hadn’t added it yet. Well today it is now there. You can now update Basecamp, Dropbox and FTP account information. Access it from the main console as seen in this screenshot.
• Part of allowing editing meant we needed to have more information available on the Console so we rolled out some console UI changes that we had been working on. Now there is an accordion view of all of your jobs. Clicking on one of them opens up the detailed information about the job.

• In response to our beta users requests we have added an additional plan that allows retrieving files and data for Basecamp plans with up to 30GB of files stored. This is our Gold plan. We’re testing against the 75GB Basecamp plan as well and should have that available soon.

In the Core Engine:

• The reason we don’t just support all of the files and data that you want to have retrieved is that it is actually somewhat difficult and error prone to retrieve huge data sets across the internet. There are so many network issues that can go wrong and we are dealing with lots of different networks. In order to retrieve your files from Basecamp and deliver them to you, we have to access your Basecamp account to get the information about your files, access Amazon where your Basecamp files are stored, and then access your FTP server or Dropbox to store your files. We have been doing extensive testing to capture all of the corner cases of transmission errors, access errors, FTP server intricacies, and whatever else can happen. As part of rolling out our Gold plan we have also rolled out support for the in our Core Engine. This includes a lot more error handling and retry mechanisms to make sure that we get the files and data that we need.