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The Upper Canada Region of PCA is made up of almost 2,300 people with a common love of Porsche automobiles. Our region covers most of Ontario except the Ottawa Valley. Learn More...
 

Website Migration Strategy

Saturday, 14 February 2009 18:23 administrator
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As you may have heard, a new UCR web site is being rolled out. It is being hosted at Netfirms, and is built on the Joomla CMS .

The old site will continue to exist in an abreviated form to handle Track Registration.The Track Registration site domain name will be reg.pcaucr.org. The new site will take over the www.pcaucr.org domain name. The user database has been transferred, along with recent classifieds and forum posts.  Most of the content has been 'ported' from the old site, as has the general layout.

The Track Registration database will continue on the old site. Users registered on this site will receive monthly Email Blasts, be able to post ads and forum messages, and be able to communicate with other UCR members. The situation will be similar to that between, say, Ebay and Paypal. Most people will have a different login on both. Eventually, DE and other track event registrations will be outsourced to a 3rd party.

Users require a username to log onto this site, which is different from their real names. To make things easier, usernames have been created that are the person's real name without spaces and punctuation. Usernames are case insensitive. Passwords have been carried over unchanged.

I invite you to surf the new site, and return comments by email or forum. I intend to make many improvements in the months to come.

Otto Mittelstaedt

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Last Updated on Monday, 29 June 2009 16:57
 

Peter Carroll and the UCR web site

Sunday, 19 April 2009 15:42 John Adam
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When we go way back to the early days of computers, sometime in the last millennium, there were people that had the smarts and were at the leading edge in developing new ideas for those computers. Even today, some companies have no web site but UCR was there in the final days of the last century. It was April, 1999, when Peter Carroll’s name first appeared in Provinz as webmaster.

Provinz carried a two-page spread by Peter in June. He explained how a web site was set up and how easy it would be to add new stuff. The intention was that new additions would be done by our members and that Peter would have an easy time of it.

Somehow, I don’t think that Peter ever stopped designing, improving and enhancing over the past ten years. Yes, time flies but it has really been ten years. The UCR web site has received multiple first place awards from PCA. Think about it. PCA must have access to some of the brightest (nerdy) minds in North America. But UCR has Peter Carroll and the web site that has won more top awards than anyone.

 Like Dave Devall, weatherman at CTV, Peter has decided to retire and is being replaced by Otto Mittelstaedt. It’s a tough act to follow but we are at the top of our game. Good luck to Otto.

Last Updated on Sunday, 26 April 2009 11:36
 

My First DE of 2009

Monday, 01 June 2009 19:53 Name Withheld
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Do you need to have a pit crew to do driver ED?  Probably not, but a CAA membership might not be a bad idea. If your mechanic sets up shop at the track, you have a leg up as well. Here's my story for the first DE of the year at Mosport.

I had been looking forward to the event all winter. I was involved in a project that was taking every second of my free time, so I needed a break. At the track, the first session went OK. At the start of the second, I noticed that the O2 sensor light was glowing slightly. On this car, it was recommended that the O2 sensor be changed out every 50k, and the light taps into the odometer. Initially I thought, OK, I’ll have to reset it. As a bulb test, it also goes on when the alternator light goes on. So I looked down, sure enough, the alternator light was glowing dimly as well. I went out onto the track, but after one lap, common sense got the better of me and I thought I better check it out. As a favour, Markus, the registrar checked the alternator output. Zilch. Now what? How do I get home?  So I wandered around for a while, looking for a

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