Archive for October, 2009

Manage your storage usage

Friday, October 30th, 2009

If you are one of our unfortunate users who is exceeding their storage allotment, you might be frustrated that we didn’t tell you which of your sessions, scripts, or data files are causing you trouble. This is no longer a problem – clicking on “All Data” now shows you how much space each data file is using. Delete troublesome files (and download them first if you like) and you’ll be able to get back to computing.

If you need that extra space – consider upgrading your account.  If you’re a free user generating enough data to run into our limits you might want to consider supporting the site.  And if you’re a paid user, you get quite a bit more at each upgrade level.

If you continue to have problems with storage limits let us know, but we think this should resolve it for everyone.

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Of mice and monkeys

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Wow, it has been an exciting month. The demand for Monkey Analytics is steadily increasing as well as the number of servers that are puting online. Thanks to everyone for using our product and passing along bug reports as well as feature requests.

We have some unfortunate news for some of you that have been really *enjoying* our system. We had a bug in our storage allocation scheme that pretty much allowed anyone to have a field day creating gigantic files.  Sorry guys, this will be no more.  You will now be limited to your subscription storage allotment.   As a result some of your accounts will no longer work as you have already surpassed your usage limits. For now, you can delete large sessions (many variables) or large files; if this doesn’t work please contact us and we will get you back online. We plan to give users better tools to manage this in the near future but needed to push this latest bug fix out as these files have caused huge disruption to our users.

For our paying customers, we realize that these serious disruptions are no fun.  If you are dissatisfied with your service, please let us know so we can refund your account for this month.

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Another tiny launch – Bugs + Download Data

Monday, October 19th, 2009

What more can we say but more bug fixes.  It seems that we broke some core functionality (Upload Data for one) when we did our huge refactoring to increase the responsivity of MA.  Sorry to those we inconvenienced.

Incorporated with this launch, download data.  That is right!  You can now download your data files from the site.  Coming soon, download scripts!

Now back to the fun stuff…

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Tiny launch – bugfixes :-)

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Bugfixes aren’t as sexy as big feature launches, but we thought our devoted users might like to know that we’re working on the little stuff too. And sometimes, the little stuff that goes wrong and slows you down can have an equivalent impact to sexy feature launches – at least we think so!

We’ve fixed over 15 bugs since our launch last week. The good news is that these were all small bugs that just caused annoying 505 error pages and perhaps some functionality (deleting a script, for instance) to not quite do what you expected.

We’re tracking down a couple other trickier nuisance bugs, then back onto the development roadmap we laid out earlier.

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Huge launch – performance boosts & more!

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Hi everyone!

We’ve been radio silent for a bit because we were heads-down developing and debugging a set of features which launched today.  So if you’re wondering what we’ve been up to – you can find out here!

1. Huge performance boost: in our performance discussion, we mentioned that round-trips between commands could take 5 seconds. Ouch! This is no longer the case – most commands now complete in < 1 second so that you feel almost as if you are developing locally. We always had an architecture in mind to deliver this, but it was far more complex to build than we expected. The end result is worth it – and we hope you love it as much as we do.

2. Plotting improvements: as part of this architecture upgrade, we’ve fixed our handling of Octave / Matlab and Python plotting – Python matplotlib plots now function correctly the majority of the time, and many more Matlab commands such as hold and gcf now function properly.

3. Rename your sessions: if you click on a session’s name in an open session or session info screen you’ll get a popup asking for your new session name – so if you didn’t like what you called your session to start with (or don’t like the “Default” we give you when you first sign in) feel free to change it!

Now that this huge change is launched, we look forward to getting back to our laundry list of smaller items that have been annoying us (as well as the next big item – 64 bit high memory machines as an option).  As always, if you find a bug we missed, let us know!

Thanks,

Francesca Moyse | Founder | francesca@monkeyanalytics.com

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