A well organised, automatically updated, and easy to read, easy to understand timeline of events, from new case confirmations, new infections, and school closings to technical details on the H1N1 Swine Influenza/Flu pandemic. This site also provides automated translations of foreign language articles for English speaking readers.

I had some spare time and resources. This site is pretty much nonprofit – I didn’t make this as a commercial venture or a place to stuff a load of ads.

Why are you asking the internet?

It’s a terrifying mix of PHP, Ruby on Rails, cronjobs and bash scripts. Currently, the frontend is serving pages with PHP. Data mining is automated and run on another server using Rails, annutils and Google’s API. The API also does automated translation of foreign language articles for inclusion on the site. Cron runs several bash scripts every few minutes, clearing temporary files, taking samples of swine flu maps, and pushing updates out.

Being a poor student, I just used some hosting I had laying around, and a domain I had laying around. Works for now.

There’s me and seven friends doing code cleanup, occasional rewrites, and handling mail. Always looking for more help, too.

E-mail me. flu@trancy.net.