The past days have been very intense, specially as for functional improvements, which at first sight are hard to identify, but have a positive result from a technical point of view.
From one side we have been busy enhancing the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) of the data base. The HAL is a group of functionalities that allow programmers to access clear and easily the database of the operative systems. Therefore, it is very critical, as most of the applications draw upon the database for some information. With this improvement, we get to reduce in a significant way the response time in most of the accesses to the database.

Another task that kept us busy was security. We have added a CAPTCHA control in the Forum service, as it was being exploited by some organizations to upload undesired adverts, with the resultant image problems for the organization, but also for the rest as they were consuming considerable resources from the system.

In the coming days we keep working to refine improvements in the abstraction layer, and keep monitoring the servers.