Posted: Wednesday, August 22nd 2007
As I mentioned in my last entry, I was working to automate the update process for the comic and writeup so that I wouldn't have to get up before 6am. I could do them in advance and the site would do the update work for me.
Anyway, I've been slacking on the project for quite a few days now, conveniently finding other stuff to do (like hit level 70 and buy a flying mount). But, I finally buckled down yesterday and turned the logic strings and tests into functioning code. Though I tested it last night, I still wanted to make sure the live code updated at the right time. So this morning was the last time I had to get up to do the update manually. And the whole thing only adds fractions of a tenth of a second to the total code processing time.
This is a big thing for GU. It means for the first time in GU's 7 year history, I could upload multiple comics AND writeups in advance and they'd update at the right time. Before now, if I uploaded comics in advance, the comic updated at midnight and the writeup still had to be moved into place manually.
If it's not apparent... I'm pretty excited about this. I don't know why I didn't do it years ago.
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wiccalight
Posted: Saturday, August 18th 2007
This weekend has been dedicated to making a few more improvements to the site. And because I'm a jackass, I do not work on GU in a sandbox. I work directly on the live code. So, sometimes, pages break because I forgot to put in a semi-colon or forgot to close an "if{}". I think I just felt half the web devs reading this entry cringe in unison. **grins** Meh, I fix it in short order so it's no big deal to me.
Anyway, most of what I'm doing you'll never see. Primary example, automating the process to update the comic at 8am EST (6am my time) so I don't have to get out of bed at 5:50am and manually turn everything on. And, on the stuff you can see front, I've added the most recent blog entry to the bottom of the GU News Line on the front page.
Of course those are only two of the projects I have slated for the coming weekend. But, I wanted to make sure you guys knew what was going on an why some pages might occassionally spit an error message at you. The Forums will not be effected as I have no plans to work on them for a while.
