Archive for the ‘development’ Category

A new look

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

We have started rolling out a new design for the public pages of statzen.com. This is in preparation of our public launch. "What?!? You are actually going to launch this thing?!?" I know; amazing isn't it. Things have progressed very nicely. Right now we are working on help copy, some final ...

With Customers Comes Bugs, Results in Progress

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Well, we have had a few issues as we start letting more people into the system. Nothing major or bigger than we anticipated, but it did produce some user-facing errors as we discovered and fixed the bugs. I think point I am pretty sure all of the bugs that prevent ...

Statzen’s New Look

Friday, August 29th, 2008

We updated the public facing pages of statzen.com to a new, cleaner look. This change is in preparation for the exciting updates that we will have next week. If you haven't already, now is a good time to signup to be notified when we start giving people access to the system. ...

Reporting That Makes Sense

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

It has been a while since I have posted on the statzen blog. The primary reason is that I have taken a little time for myself. I took a motorcycle trip from Tennessee to Washington, DC and back while camping along the way. It was a great time ...

Life Getting in the Way

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I have been somewhat stalled on statzen development for the past 2 weeks. I have a few things I need to do before I start letting some alpha users in, but my life (aka day job) is not cooperating. I have to find a way to free up ...

Speeding Things Up

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Last night it became painfully obvious that I had to do something to speed up statzen before I could go much further. After some quick indexes and a little database configuration tuning, some queries went from 5 seconds to milliseconds. This is a huge step towards letting people use the ...

Micro Applications

Monday, August 27th, 2007

A few months ago I developed a proof-of-concept widget for statzen. It showed a list of the items on my blog that received the most attention (via the web and feed readers). While I thought that was neat, I also wanted a tag-cloud based on attention. ...