Archive for the ‘development’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
Posted in development, launch |
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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