The Mobile Developer

Have finally managed to sort out the permalinks on word press for this blog - the problem was that although WordPress was able to modify the .htaccess file, the url rewriter was being ignored by apache. This is almost certainly down to the super lame httpd default install on this fasthosts server.  I fixed the problem by putting the url rewriting code into the “dont’t put anything here” section of the vhosts.conf file and it has fixed the problem nicely. I’m even happier that the old urls work too so no having to add redirects to keep up my existing page rank! Now to press on and get the new version of our mobile slimming site - mobislim v2 - live onto our production environment.

This evening I just finished the core implementation of our new Spring based MVC controller for providing SEO friendly url’s. It’s called the Scorch Controller and it takes makes all its decisions autonomously based on the ScorchState. After it has forwarded to the appropriate JSP it then gives the JSP the ScorchState which it used to get to the JSP. The page can then use the state to create the seo friendly external links for the ScorchController. A few weeks ago it was all a dream but now it is live and working at an undisclosed location. Tomorrow I am going to create a google mobile site map and submit the secret site. Then I am going to try and migrate the ScorchController into mobislim.com our slimming and dieting based mobile web analytics product, so we can see how the search engine optimisation is affected.