Ben McGraw's Egometry » vrpg

gruedorf maintenence

mcgrue — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:56:07 +0000

This week’s update is not sexy game development, but website maintenance. I fixed problems on vrpg concerning inefficient database queries (a specific query was getting hammered too much and was better replaced with a non-db code-defined data structure), updated the files page (static content) to point to the current verge executables, and started debugging problems with the image uploader (still in progress.)

.2 more cake!

mcgrue — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:17:59 +0000

In direct defiance of what I said I wouldn’t do a scant month ago, I’m currently converting the verge-rpg.com codebase from cakephp 1.1 to 1.3.

Why? Because I’m sick of dealing with the anachronisms from the original library. When I built pingpawn in 1.3 natively, every new feature effortlessly flowed into being. That’s the sort of thing I covet, especially after 2 weeks of chasing down bugfixes since the site re-launch.

I want this beastie maintainable, not to be in a de-facto feature-freeze for years like last time.

On r677 as of tonight. Whee!

Galleries finished.

mcgrue — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:39:38 +0000

This week brought editing of individual gallery pages, rss for newest screenshots uploaded, and a fancy random-image-rotating box on the front page of verge-rpg.com. Go over there to check it out.

VERGE Site Relaunch

mcgrue — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:09:26 +0000

In the past week I’ve re-launched verge-rpg.com. It’s now in a form that works more consistently across all browsers, and you can actually login and upload files consistently.

Hooray!

And then the bug reports started coming in. (Which is to be expected and respected.)

I’ve blown through 30 revisions since the launch crushing bugs, and I have a full coffer to go through for a few days yet. Hopefully I’ll have everything already-reported dealt with by this time next week.

I’m… eager… to start the next iteration of verge dev tools.

vrpg beta work continues…

mcgrue — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:59:13 +0000

I’ve mainly been dealing with code concerning the files section. I’ve improved the quality of the upload process, corrected the file lineage graph and made strides towards a saner system, have made it so you can comment upon file entries, and made it so anyone can upload screenshots of any file.

Also I made an schema-application tool to keep track of which .sql files have been applied in what environment. Trust me, this is useful.

So where did I go for two months, far, far away from Gruedorf? I honestly can say I was shocked to crack open this dev folder to find the last svn log from July 10. So wherever I went, it didn’t seem as long as it was. :(