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Friday, April 8, 2005 by Dark-Star | Discussion: Developer Journals
Hello again guys, gals and those of you who fall obscurely in between! 
Well, this week was full of adventure, danger, love and suspense! No, that would be more like the tune of a movie ad. Instead, work this week has been for the most part productive. Okay, so that doesn't sound as "cool" as a movie, but it does pay the bills. So anyway, overall WinCustomize has seemed to improve in stability. (Somewhat anyway. That is, not as many servers had to be restarted and it actually survived all through last weekend with out a single restart!)
On the production side of things, we got a lot done. I finished a concept of the new Stardock Forums and worked with Andrew to get that code finalized. He did the crazy code to run the forums; I updated his code to make it look nice. Seems to work for me! We also applied this same procedure to updating TotalGaming.net's forums as well. I'm not certain when that will become available to the general public.
Also, did quite a bit of cosmetic features-- Things like, adding time stamps to comments on JoeUser, WinCustomize, & GalCiv2, as well as adding link headers on the TotalGaming.net main site using good old fashion IMAGEMAPs. -- Haven't use one forever. Added a nicer message on GalCiv2 forums for those users not yet logged in when viewing a post that would encourage them to login... -- included a cute picture of a little puppy with it's glossy eyes just begging the user to login -- a nice touch! * Lastly, added a link to the owner of an articles Blog site in the JoeUser forums; much like how it is displayed when you are in the articles part of the site. This helps add consistency to the site.
Finally, A added several other small updates that aren't to exciting, but I'll just briefly mention them below:
-Updated/Added a recent forums post header graphic to the new TGN forums (soon to be announced I'm sure) And a few other little graphics to the page.
-Fixed a CSS issue with a few of the links on the TGN forums not displaying correctly.
-Updated the TGN forums "info" page with the new design and also updated the Stardock forums "info" page to the new design that it had.
-Did some more tech support, and helped a few people with some issues they where having about their accounts. Got a nice complement from one of our customers about the "quality" of my support assistance... *blushes* -- oh yeah.. I'm good... real good.
--Assisted Pat (T-Man) with some JavaScript questions he had. I love JavaScript.
*hugs Sun MicroSystems*
That's about it for me. These are the things I've done this week so far (from what I've written down anyway). I'm sending you this a little early again since I'm not sure if I'll have a chance to post later in the day.
Okay, I've got to get back to work. I hope everyone has enjoyed this Blog as much as I have writing it. Take care everyone!
Dark-Star
* Cute little puppy image does not actually exist. Limit one per customer. Not valid with any other offer.
Well, this week was full of adventure, danger, love and suspense! No, that would be more like the tune of a movie ad. Instead, work this week has been for the most part productive. Okay, so that doesn't sound as "cool" as a movie, but it does pay the bills. So anyway, overall WinCustomize has seemed to improve in stability. (Somewhat anyway. That is, not as many servers had to be restarted and it actually survived all through last weekend with out a single restart!)
On the production side of things, we got a lot done. I finished a concept of the new Stardock Forums and worked with Andrew to get that code finalized. He did the crazy code to run the forums; I updated his code to make it look nice. Seems to work for me! We also applied this same procedure to updating TotalGaming.net's forums as well. I'm not certain when that will become available to the general public.
Also, did quite a bit of cosmetic features-- Things like, adding time stamps to comments on JoeUser, WinCustomize, & GalCiv2, as well as adding link headers on the TotalGaming.net main site using good old fashion IMAGEMAPs. -- Haven't use one forever. Added a nicer message on GalCiv2 forums for those users not yet logged in when viewing a post that would encourage them to login... -- included a cute picture of a little puppy with it's glossy eyes just begging the user to login -- a nice touch! * Lastly, added a link to the owner of an articles Blog site in the JoeUser forums; much like how it is displayed when you are in the articles part of the site. This helps add consistency to the site.
Finally, A added several other small updates that aren't to exciting, but I'll just briefly mention them below:
-Updated/Added a recent forums post header graphic to the new TGN forums (soon to be announced I'm sure) And a few other little graphics to the page.
-Fixed a CSS issue with a few of the links on the TGN forums not displaying correctly.
-Updated the TGN forums "info" page with the new design and also updated the Stardock forums "info" page to the new design that it had.
-Did some more tech support, and helped a few people with some issues they where having about their accounts. Got a nice complement from one of our customers about the "quality" of my support assistance... *blushes* -- oh yeah.. I'm good... real good.
--Assisted Pat (T-Man) with some JavaScript questions he had. I love JavaScript.
*hugs Sun MicroSystems*That's about it for me. These are the things I've done this week so far (from what I've written down anyway). I'm sending you this a little early again since I'm not sure if I'll have a chance to post later in the day.
Okay, I've got to get back to work. I hope everyone has enjoyed this Blog as much as I have writing it. Take care everyone!
Dark-Star
* Cute little puppy image does not actually exist. Limit one per customer. Not valid with any other offer.
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thomassen
Reply #2 Friday, April 8, 2005 10:52 AM
Reply #2 Friday, April 8, 2005 10:52 AM
thomassen copies the text and pastes into Notepad.
thomassen
Reply #3 Friday, April 8, 2005 10:53 AM
Reply #3 Friday, April 8, 2005 10:53 AM
thomassen remembers he could have just hit Ctrl+Pluss 
thomassen
Reply #4 Friday, April 8, 2005 10:55 AM
Reply #4 Friday, April 8, 2005 10:55 AM
thomassen remembers he could have just hit Ctrl+Pluss
ZubaZ
Reply #5 Friday, April 8, 2005 11:00 AM
Reply #5 Friday, April 8, 2005 11:00 AM
thomassen starts posting twice again. For old times sake?
Hazylunarrain
Reply #8 Friday, April 8, 2005 2:17 PM
Reply #8 Friday, April 8, 2005 2:17 PM
Only one tiny puppy? 
I wanted to e-mail him to all my friends! Anyhow, I agree, everything seems to be workin a bit better from my end... Keep it up!
I wanted to e-mail him to all my friends! Anyhow, I agree, everything seems to be workin a bit better from my end... Keep it up!
thomassen
Reply #9 Friday, April 8, 2005 3:17 PM
Reply #9 Friday, April 8, 2005 3:17 PM
This time it was actually me with a twitchy finger when hitting Submit. Can't blame my evil twin, think he got killed.
thomassen dont see why...
| thomassen is from Norway..now u see why |
thomassen dont see why...
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PurrBall
Reply #15 Monday, April 18, 2005 8:40 AM
Reply #15 Monday, April 18, 2005 8:40 AM
Oh... I'm slowly being reminded of when this site was in beta.. this happened less than a minute ago.:
PurrBall
Reply #17 Monday, April 18, 2005 8:52 AM
Reply #17 Monday, April 18, 2005 8:52 AM
I don't know if this is anything you can do, but the site seems to be quite slow after the move.
Dark-Star
Reply #18 Monday, April 18, 2005 9:24 AM
Reply #18 Monday, April 18, 2005 9:24 AM
hehe.. I'll let you know.. I'm testing this locally on my machine here at work. It still needs to be uploaded to production after it has been tested. 
Dark-Star
Reply #19 Monday, April 18, 2005 9:47 AM
Reply #19 Monday, April 18, 2005 9:47 AM
Yeah, we're in the process of tracking down why we get this error. I got that error a few minutes ago too. As you can see, when this error happens, the whole site bites the big one...
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Reply #1 Friday, April 8, 2005 10:45 AM