GolfTips Working Again

I received a few emails today saying that my GolfTips widget was broken. It turns out I was having a server issue that I didn’t even know about (until I received the emails). Everything should be back up and running again. Please let me know if this isn’t the case and I’ll look into the problem further.

I’ve been slacking on development, but plan on releasing an update in the coming weeks so please stay tuned!

13 Responses to “GolfTips Working Again”

1. Gary Allen says:

   February 25, 2006 at 5:21 pm

   Many thanks for producing the Golf Tips widget, but I cannot get it to work on my PC. It continues to return a message of an error when it tries to load the tip.
2. dennis says:

   February 25, 2006 at 11:24 pm

   Gary,

   Thanks for the feedback on the widget. Can you verify that you’re not behind a firewall that blocks requests to non-standard internet ports? Right now the tips are loaded from port 8080 and I’m assuming that’s what your problem is.

   Thanks,
   Dennis
3. Mike says:

   March 9, 2006 at 12:08 pm

   GolfTips indicates a message “Error Loading Data” This has been going on for more than a week. Suggestions?
4. dennis says:

   March 9, 2006 at 11:06 pm

   Mike,

   Thanks for the email. I guess I need to do a better job of monitoring the tip feed because it went down and I didn’t even realize it. My GolfTips widget was working locally and I hadn’t tried loading a new one. When I did I received the error you mentioned. At any rate I’ve got everything back up and running again.

   Dennis
5. Paul says:

   July 21, 2006 at 11:45 am

   I live by Golf Tips! Handicap has dropped 10 points since Golf Tips was working, but now it is not again. Can you please check your tip feed?

   Thanks for the nice work.
   Paul
6. dennis says:

   July 22, 2006 at 10:58 pm

   Paul,

   Thanks for the email and I wish GolfTips could help that much with my game! At any rate, I fixed the feed problem and you should now be able to view your tips again.

   Take care,
   Dennis
7. Jim says:

   November 17, 2006 at 10:58 pm

   This in in November and the tip is not loading. says error. Why?
8. dennis baldwin says:

   November 19, 2006 at 11:08 am

   Jim,

   Give GolfTips a try again. The server was hung so I had to restart it. It should be working now.

   Thanks,
   Dennis
9. hannes rothmeyer says:

   February 6, 2007 at 9:06 am

   thanks for your tips, great. my golfenglish isn’t good enough do translate it in german, its not possible to make it to copy and paste so i can put it in a converter?
   hope you’ll help me in a good season. mfgh
10. Tony says:

    May 20, 2007 at 1:57 pm

    I keep getting an error on the Golf Widget. The error states “Error Loading Data”. The last update was a quote from Hank Haney, which i believe is from a few days ago.
11. Dennis O'Connor says:

    August 6, 2007 at 8:44 am

    My golf tips widget has been getting an “error loading data” message for some time. Is there any fix? I miss the daily reminder! Thanks.
12. Mike Portwood says:

    September 6, 2007 at 7:00 am

    Golf Tips still not working. ERROR LOADING DATA!
13. dennis baldwin says:

    September 9, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    Everyone, I’m terribly sorry for the broken widget but the provider of data for GolfTips has changed their page. If you have any on-line sources that have GREAT tips send me a link (dennisbaldwin at gmail dot com) and I’ll try and get it integrated with the widget! Thanks, Dennis.