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Published on April 15, 2005 By Flyin In Developer Journals
Hello All,

Well, this week has been a decent week in that not too many pressing things were slammed onto my plate which was great!

Still, did some bug fixes and am in the middle of a project with Andrew_ to speed up those personal pages!

Bug Fixes:

1. Posts on WC would duplicate the linetext of the articles! Bad bug! This was fixed by updating one of our stored procedures
2. Some Posts were being saved with blank lines within the articles DB
3. If a skin author who owns a personal page creates his first skin within a particular skin category and the skin goes into moderation and/or processing, that skin is no where to be found within his personal page. This has been fixed.
4. Within the Gallery Section of each personal page, there exists a drop down list and if that author has skins in moderation, there should is an item of the drop down list that says “In Moderation” that you can select to see skins that have not yet been approved. Well, Skins’ status can also be “In Processing”, so I added that entry within that drop down list so you can also see skins that are in processing
5. In the MySkins.aspx page, if a skin author doesn’t have any approved skins, but has skins in moderation or in processing, there was no way to view these skins. This bug has been fixed.

MISC Things worked on this week.
1. Andrew_ and I have tag teamed on making the personal pages faster. First let me say I love when things work smoothly between co-workers. By Splitting the duties, this little project will get done a bit faster, but most importantly, it will be done in a way that is much more expandable because there is twice the man power to implement the correct system!
The duties were split as follows:
a. Andrew_ is in charge of all the usercontrols we want to make static. He has created a system such that they will inherit from this nice little class and will create static files from these controls to save from db activity as well as server side processing. That system, in tandem with implementing them with all the controls is a tall task, and he basically finished it by wed which was awesome.
b. What I’m in charge with is setting up the proper tables within the DB and also some internal things that interact with his system such that if a control needs to refresh itself, the system I created will send a message to his control, and the control will refresh itself.

The system should be done by Monday or Tuesday and the team will Test and debug it, and hopefully the system will be in place live by wed or thurs.
I’ve learned a few things from this project that I can carry over to my next project which is implementing moderators for our forums. Once this project is done with, that is the next beast to tackle! Oh fun it will be let me tell you!

Well, have a great weekend all!!

Flyin

Comments
on Apr 15, 2005
have a great weekend Flyin..
on Apr 15, 2005

Jafo rushes off to find new and exciting bugs for the guys to play with...

Since 'Fred' was unceremonially murdered by T-Man [that was the one where you'd sometimes be unable to see any messages on a thread]....we have [had]....

Barney ....he's the one where some threads would stubbornly reload to comment #1...no matter how many pages there were...it wouldn't remember your last viewing.

and

Wilma ...she's the one that cuts off skin comments in mid paragraph...obviously hates long-winded people...

on Apr 16, 2005
Barney is hitting hard today...
on Apr 20, 2005
Barney happens with every thread where the last post isnt yours.
on Apr 20, 2005
Not necessarily...
on Apr 20, 2005
Barney happens with every thread where the last post isnt yours


Reverse that....

The last post is yours> Barney attacks
on Jun 10, 2005
I don't think so.