Steve Workman

Well, Genesys is taking a lot of my time at the moment, however, I’ve done lots of good work.

Genesys now has a new logo and web site, both currently found at beta.steel-software.com

They look lovely no? Please leave me comments, I need the feedback.

Steve

Currently Watching: Brainiac
Currently Reading: digg
Currently Eating: Chinese
Currently Listening To: Muse
Currently Sitting: In my house in Lancaster

*ahem… swallows pride*

USE v3.05 ( Fantasy Hockey Update)
League table now links to teams and managers profiles
Create team allows for team names with ‘ in them
Profiles for other people’s teams displays correctly
Myteam budget remaining now has a £m formatted to it
Table pagination now works correctly
Anonymous and SS removed from top points
Fixed Picmenu delete bug
Two addslashes fixes
Delete match report empty array error
Transfer price fix
Fixed archives special characters bug
Fixed minor layout bug in gallery
Fantasy Hockey Logic Fixed

Yeah…. that’s a lot of bugs considering I said it was all done last time. There are lots of minor ones like links not working, but there are also some massive ones like the long-standing bugs like the edit match report bug that i’ve never been able to reproduce!

It turns out that the fantasy hockey bug was a problem with my logic. It works with a repeated function to calculate each person’s individual score then it posts those scores back into an array which are added to each team which has that player in it. Turns out that I was posting back the player’s total score for all time rather than just the updated score. So, I moved the individual player score database update to the repeated function and it returns the difference rather than the total. With that done, everything should work “flawlessly”…

So, it’s been a learning process. There are still minor bugs (there’s no admin menu for fantasy hockey) and v3.1 is quite a long way off. Development of v4.0 is slow to non-existent. Genesys work is slightly on top of me. Lots to do.

Anywho, next time, more features, i promise!

Steve

Currently Listening To: Damien Rice - 9
Currently Reading: Email… so much spam!
Currently Watching: Heroes
Currently Eating: Spag bog
Things to do tomorrow: millions

As per usual:

USE v3.04
Changed spelling of ‘location’ in add newsletter menu
Fixed RSS validation
Fixed email message output
Fixed ability to submit an email twice by accident
Fixed a CSS bug causing 404 errors
Fixed div bugs when access to a page was denied
Added ability to send email to all members
Fixed yellow/red cards not displaying in readreports

Yeah, I know what I said in the last post. I was incredibly annoyed when I had pushed 3.03 out the door only to run into another salvo of bugs. 3.04 has been much more of an incremental update than the last one so half the fixes have been out in the wide world all week.
I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten a final feature list for v3.1, but that’s been put on the back-burner for a bit until I get all my changes to uni-sport.org done (i.e. the demo sites are still on v3.02 and contain real data). I have also started exploratory coding on USE v4. The first task of which is to reproduce v3 exactly. After that… who knows what I’ll dream up, maybe even some satisfactory way to do sessions without copying phpBB exactly, a better way for people to configure RSS better, maybe even give people different templates and the ability to change their layout based upon a basic uni colour scheme. Maybe the site will even be secure! Pipe dreams my friends, pipe dreams, lol.

Other than that, things are goin alright. 5 paying clients are currently on my books and the White Rose Enterprise Agency wants to give me up to £500 to spend on stuff for the business. So, that’s an external HDD for secure code storage between computers; a CVS for dreamweaver; overheads for the year covered; professionally made business cards and logo; exams in dreamweaver and photoshop so i can get certified; and even coffee if i’m with a client. The perks of the job ya see.

Steve
Currently Listening To: Ryan Adams
Currently Watching: The start of all the tv shows i missed last year (and futurama)
Currently Eating: Ibuprofen and tomatoes (apparently I have a kidney infection)
Currently Reading: Background material….. how dull
Unnecessary hours of Genesys lecutures: all of them, all 12 hours *grrr*

First things first…
USE v3.03

Fixed:
Minor security bug when uploading errors
Minor fix in view mini-profile
Finally fixed hidden email addresses
Default avatar now correct type
Maintenance mode page now uses the site’s clubname
Account Activation fixed
Comment in showpicture is now back in the centre
Commitactivation email link fixed
Registration layout and error message

Added:
New Default avatar
Match Reports now link to player’s profiles
Deny button in account activation
Admin-only opt-out of FH to user profile
Ability to change a player’s nickname
Alternate profile picture upload
Admin Activate account without email confirmation
Add user for Admins

Now, that’s a serious amount of bugfixes, seriously, there are loads in there. It’s mostly come from the fact that since I am now a business (Steel Software UK now has a bank account!) and have 4 clients under my belt with loads more interested I’m now finding the little things, the things which just make life easier for everyone. Things like forcing account activation, changing usernames if you misspell, just more things that before I’d go in to the database for can now be done through the UI.
This is probably going to be the last bugfix release before 3.1 which won’t contain a whole lot more considering admin add user was scheduled for then.

So, the business:
http://mensrugby.shef.uni-sport.org or www.menofsheffield.com My first clients. It’s been a good experience, steep learning curve really. The annoying thing was that most of the bugs were caused by me working at 2am with v3.01 code. Very silly things that were fixed in SUHC3, but not in USE-Full. So, I’ve gotta try to get some sort of CVS working in dreamweaver. It’s quite hard actually, considering my desktop pc here doesn’t like doing FTP with the current router (the mac is fine tho, both on wireless, one next to the other, very odd) so I can’t use the demo sites to host the version control. So, a CVS will get me started. I’m noting everything I do down, it’s just taking the time to make sure all sites are at the same level.

Tomorrow, meeting with Squash, meeting with Rowing the next day (http://rowing.shef.uni-sport.org) then versioning, as long as I don’t get any more clients yet. Also, now things are pulling together and I actually have some sites, therefore, the whole shef.uni-sport.org web page needs some sprucing up, probably with a choice selection of news tidbits from the network sites and the uni logo somewhere.
I’ve also got a lovely fashion design student (friend of a friend) who has said she’ll do a logo for Steel Software (that site needs re-doing).

Anyway, its well past my bedtime
Steve

Currently Listening To: The Dears - Gang of Losers
Currently Watching: Futurama
Currently Eating: Cheese on toast with Henderson’s Relish - best hangover cure ever, FACT!
Currently Reading: Photoshop CS Classroom in a Book
Company Profits To Date: £35

USE v3.02:
Fixed edit squad error
Fixed minor error in randomprofile selector
Fixed picture association for matches and events in edit picture displayed incorrectly
Fixed picture association for matches not including matches for archived squads
Changed CSS so that siteinfo displays more clearly
Add who in picture to showpicture

There’s still a very random bug with the adverts on some computers using IE6. If you can’t see the ads, clear your cache. If that doesn’t work, use a proper browser (Opera/Firefox)
I’m moving the demo system to demo.uni-sport.org and making all 4 modules available to play with. I’ve gotten an email from an interested party for the USE-Lite system so pricing for everything will be confirmed later in the week. I was recently reminded that phpBB forums are under the GNU license so I can’t actually sell it as part of my packages. I can give it away with the packages, but not sell it so things are gonna change slightly there.

Shef Uni Rowing Club’s website should be done by next week, and it’ll start testing on shef.uni-sport.org/rowing soon.

Steve
Currently Listening To: Captain - This is Hazelville
Currently Watching: Brazil v Argentina
Currently Eating: Weetos, strangley they’re healthier for you can cornflakes!
Currently Reading: Any information I can get on setting up a business