We hope you had a great break, and are feeling refreshed and ready for 2013. We used the Christmas and New Year break to implement an overhaul of our systems, so we are re-vamped and revving for a busy year ahead.
Here’s what we did:
– Upgraded key underlying software on the eHive servers, including the operating system.
– Added another 3 servers (eHive now runs across 10 servers)
– Split some of the application to separate servers to help us perform upgrades without having the site down for any period.
– Continued polishing our new set of developer’s tools.
The biggest part of this work has been migrating the existing database to new servers. This required several short periods of downtime for the site over the last couple of weeks but the work is now all completed.
It has been a busy time, as we also launched our WordPress plugins late last year. Many of you have been downloading and utilising them already, which is great to see. Our developer’s help website (www.developers.ehive.com) is the place to go for all the information you will need to get underway. We are constantly refining and adding to what we have in place so far, so please keep an eye out for updates to the help site.
You can always check the new Developers thread on our help forum to stay up to date and ask questions.
In 2010 we developed version 1.0 of our WordPress plugins and application programming interface (API). We’re now ready to make this public. 
After extensive restoration of the magnificent 17th century building, the Abingdon County Hall Museum has reopened with three floors of new exhibitions. Originally built to house law courts, since 1919 the County Hall has held a variety of local collections of geology, archaeology and history. The main gallery now tells the story of Abingdon-on-Thames, the longest continually inhabited settlement in England, and features the last MGB roadster car made in the town. Upstairs in the attic there are town treasures and objects linked to local people and places.
The remote central Queensland location of the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre has proved no barrier to visitors. Since its opening in 1988 it has drawn a huge number of national and international visitors to experience the centre and see its architecturally iconic buildings. The collections tell the story of the explorers, indigenous people, pastoralists and stock workers of the extraordinary landscape of interior Australia.
Would you like to attend the eHive workshop in New Lanark?
We have completed our inaugural eHive features survey. For those that participated in the survey, thank you for taking the time to fill this out. Your feedback is valuable for shaping our development plans. We will be running surveys again in the future, as they are a simple and quick way you can help us prioritise our planned features. Advanced searching and more options for sorting and reporting featured highly in our survey results.
Fairfield Halls is an entertainment venue with a rich history. Based in Croydon, South London, Fairfield Halls comprises a gallery, theatre and concert hall buildings that were opened in 1962. Over the years, a large and colourful selection of Fairfield Halls’ archives has been gathered. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of their opening, a selection of these archives is now online.
Our new reporting tools allows reports to be downloaded in the background. This upgrade migrates the existing Excel and XML report options into the new Create Report function. As the report generation now happens in the background, there is now no upper limit on the number of records that can be included.
Would you like to attend the eHive workshop in Hertford?
eHive’s latest upgrade, version 3.2, includes a revamp of the reporting tool.
eHive has upgraded to version 3.0 on 13 July 2011. This is our biggest upgrade so far.