What's new?

It's been a postless couple of weeks, though actually we've been very busy - witness the fact that I'm doing this post around midnight.

So what's been happening? Well, in among a host of minor enhancements, two things stand out.

Firstly, we've been doing a lot of work to optimise the Jobshout system for faster performance, putting live a new release of the server about a week ago. So far we are very pleased with the results, with everything running quicker and fixing a strange problem which had suddenly appeared. Basically things which get requested all the time, like images, CSS and Javascript files are now being published by a separate server. It's a process which we are intending to continue over the months to come, gradually separating out the jobs of content publishing from the content management (back end) side of Jobshout.

Broadbean subscribers will also be pleased to hear that we are now at the stage where we are about to start beta testing the system, so hopefully we will be able to release it in a few weeks' time.

Basically, it works like this. You enter your jobs on Jobshout in the normal way. Everything is the same, except that, if the system knows that you are a Broadbean subscriber, you will see a "Post to Broadbean on Save" checkbox, which defaults to being on when the job is entered. There is also a "Broadbean" link, next to the "search optimisation" one at the top which opens up another area on the entry screen where you can specify the job boards that you want to advertise the job on. This area will also show the status of this job on each job board, as reported by the Broadbean system, and also has a link for you to remove a job from an individual job board. When the job is posted you can set individual setting for each job board.

So with Jobshout you will be able to enter once and publish many times - a potentially massive saving of time and money.

More soon. Sleep is starting to beckon...