Hi all,

We refactored the algortihms and optimized the Rails scopes. We had a 30% increase on our development servers, so it should be around similar numbers (or faster) on production.

Thanks,
Michael

It seemed that the Opera browser automatically forwarded requests to the mobile site, now all requests are forwarded to the correct sites.

It seems the mobile site was randomly throwing out “404 page not found” errors, that’s all gone now. Happy earth hour!

Hi all,

We’re experiencing issues with our Ruby on Rails instances, some go to a 100% CPU utilization and are stuck there. We managed to get it under control, but are monitoring it closely!

Dear all,

Introducing a change to the mobile pages, we accidentally knocked out the normal listings… If one was looking for food in jumeirah, or any in
, it would end up with a 404 error. Our bad, sorry for the inconvencience. All is fixed now!

Enough with the boring faceless comment avatars, now we include a few new avatars to be used when putting a comment. You can choose between a few faces and monuments. If you have any further suggestions, please let us know.

Until then, happy holidays from down under!

Thanks,
Michael

Dear all,

We have revamped the comments a bit, if you own an outlet on places.ae, it’s possible to respond now with the place’s name, seen as the owner of the place.

Thanks,
Michael

Hi all,

We fixed a little bug that appeared when you would click the website link of one of our places on our mobile site. We noticed errors in the redirections. But these are fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Thanks,
Michael

Life begin at 40 then say, on 2nd of December 2011, the United Arab Emirates will celebrate its 40 year of existence.

The team at places.ae would like to congratulate the United Arab Emirates on this event.

Thank you,
Michael

We had a small bug that creeped into the code which would give an error on finding similar nearby places. This was a bit of untested code, and could create problems with some of the places. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Thanks,
Michael