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Diary Log

2009-12-07;( 1 hour )

worked on ip address bug that was returning mac address - added verifications

2009-12-07;( 9 hours )

worked on "esport team member" management page (invite player to esport team). (note: all previous log entries were for request to join esport team - accept/reject)
- devloping sql queries and working with .net
- validation

2009-12-06;( 9 hours )

worked on "esport team member" management page (invite player to esport team). (note: all previous log entries were for request to join esport team - accept/reject)
- input validation
- devloping sql queries and working with .net

2009-12-05;( 9 hours )

worked on "esport team member" management page.
- translation
- input validation

2009-12-04;( 9 hours )

worked on "esport team member" management page.
- generic development of page
- processing of requests to join an esport team
- added additional debug functionality - print data table

2009-12-03;( 9 hours )

worked on "esport team member" management page.
- generic development of page

2009-12-01;( 9 hours )

worked on "esport team member" management page.
- generic development of page

2009-11-26;( 9 hours )

modified the universal tranlation class in the language sets on how to tranlsate smaller text(yes/no, male/female)
translated parts of some pages (Session expired, developper blog, members management)
modified "create esport team" page - now allows a person to create multiple clans
modified "join esport team page" - now allows a person to join multiple clans
added landing pages for "account preferences" and "manage esport team" plus translations for each
worked on "esport team member" management page.
- generic development of page

2009-11-23;( 9 hours )

worked on "esport team member" management page.
- generic development of page

2009-11-21;( 9 hours )

worked on "esport team member" management page.
- modified menu
- generic development of page

2009-11-19;( 9 hours )

worked on and finished edit user profile (user account) page - this page is ready for beta testing

2009-11-17;( 9 hours )

worked on edit user profile page

2009-11-16;( 9 hours )

worked on edit user profile page

2009-11-13;( 9 hours )

worked on developing a user interface to translate pages easier (via Google API)
worked on edit user profile page
modified the layout of the registration - placed email infront(above) password to match login page - this is inline with the "account settings" page
note: friday the 13th- ooooooooooh spooky

2009-11-12;( 9 hours )

worked on edit user profile page (note: interested issue with internal links and #)
translated user profile page.
modified WPS menu to reflect new menu link for account settings

2009-11-10;( 9 hours )

worked on edit user profile page
worked on System logs page
modified the way page translations occur - if a word is now translated - it shows a blinking item to the left

2009-11-09;( 9 hours )

cleaned up and fixed developer blog / change log(this page)
worked on System logs page
made a new forum signature for myself
Note: no development over the last few days due to weekend and real life tasks
Fixed WPS registration process - bug found after "Dutchman" did a test (tried to register for first time)

2009-11-02;( 6 hours )

continued working on "join esport team" page - display success message upon apply
translated "join esport team" page

2009-10-29;( 6 hours )

modified organisation members for future tracking of current and non current members
worked on "join esports" page- actual application done

2009-10-28;( 9.5 hours )

Continued to modified the database design to include "organisations" and re-wrote the way way teams are handled in the system (Note: development has been delayed due to hard drive issues because of suspected Microsoft patch and firewall)
modified "create epsort" and "join esport" team pages to match new database design structure

2009-10-27;( 6 hours )

Modified the database design to include "organisations" and re-wrote the way way teams are handled in the system (Note: development has been delayed due to hard drive issues because of suspected Microsoft patch and firewall)

2009-10-23;( 9 hours )

conitinue working on "join esport team" - as well as additional research (note: research on how to use gridview with custom shown shown links and passing parameters)
added to debug class "WriteLine"
added easier logging in for developers('s'? its just me!)- after recompilation sessions are lost... to logmein.aspx - under development environment - automatically redirect to page last working on.... (this was a 'be kind to a developer' task and improves efficiency)
played around with gridviews - and binding abilities (this goes for the last 3 days of work)
updated the CSS adapters for asp.net - due to "EmptyDataText" not showing up

2009-10-21;( 7.5 hours )

conitinue working on "join esport team" - as well as additional research

2009-10-20;( 4 hours )

retested "create esport team" and fixed bug

2009-10-08;( 6 hours )

conitinue working on "join esport team" - as well as additional research

2009-10-07;( 9 hours )

conitinue working on "join esport team" - as well as additional research
added to "Terms of Service"
did more translation (specifically for master page footers and join esport team)

2009-10-07;( 9 hours )

conitinue working on "join esport team"
- researching "gridview" - associated controls and methods of applying this to the website
researched into CSS adapter - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/05/02/CSS-Control-Adapter-Toolkit-for-ASP.NET-2.0-.aspx

2009-10-05;( 6 hours )

Continued/finalised cleaning up source code and placing into appropriate namespaces - fixing code to meet changes
performed testing on converted code
started developing "debug" class to assist with testing
- Write - standard write to page
- Write dataset tables - find which tables are being returned from a dataset
- Write dataset row count
built and translated the Terms of Service page - (well started the ToS)

2009-10-04;( 6 hours )

Continued cleaning up source code and placing into appropriate namespaces -fixing code to meet
optimised certain functions to be more optimised

2009-10-03;( 6 hours )

Continued cleaning up source code and placing into appropriate namespaces -fixing code to meet

2009-10-02;( 9 hours )

cleaned up source code - and better class design
- Created new global classes and WPS, GSS classes to reflect proper design
optimised database access code - better use of OOP and inheritance
updated supported browsers to opera 10 only.
removed all object = null - due to managed environment

2009-10-01;( 8 hours )

tried to get dotfuscator to work with system but to no avail

2009-09-30;( 6 hours )

continued working on "join esport team" page.

2009-09-28;( 9 hours )

continued working on "create esport team"
added "pt-BR" to language handling function for languages to display to "pt"
fixed logout menu button display error.
fixed comments in language - error messages section
created - forbidden action page
Added language translations for all forbidden action messages
modified error master page to reflect the new languages translation system
implemented security precautions to stop people from producing double esport teams
converted account verify page to new language handling methods
continued working on "join esport team" page.

2009-09-25;( 9 hours )

continued converting the site the new way of handling languages(general landing pages) - too numerous to mention individually
modified some CSS colour styles
started converting - "create esport team" to new language handling
started converting - "join esport team" to new language handling
cleaned up code for better reading for "WPS register"
fixed login page error message language pass
added extra translation meanings to language resources for "create and join esport team"
after conversion of above mentioned pages - continued work on "esport team create" page
fixed bug on "WPS registration" page - field requirements message - onfocus - was moving error message *
decided on website colour scheme - corporate grays -
optimised "WPS registration page"
fixed up language bug in Arabic "What is Game Support System" - was in German
Modifed success word for entire system- and the way "success messages" were displayed
Modified database data type for "Allow Members To Join Multiple Teams" - to boolean

2009-09-23;( 10 hours )

Continued working on "language translation component" - converting menus to new language system
Converted Login page to new language system
Converted Logged out page to new language system
Converted GSS master page to new language system
Converted WPS master page to new language system
Modified CSS to new colours - not final though - just playing with colours
Started tranlating master page footers.
Converted addition - error messages and login system messages to new language system
Added clear code comments to above mentioned pages
Converted "logged in landing page" to use new language system.
Modified the way all pages handle page titles - this is to accompany the new language translation.
Fixed up commenting in language library for words "W" section
modified version - making title "alpha release" - (from optermistic to pessemistic)(was previously beta)

2009-09-21;( 9 hours )

Continued working on "language resource classes"
- applied appropriate comments -and improved existing code comments
- fixed "country list" language set coding error - chinese - zh-ch
- fixed "yes/no" language set coding error - chinese - zh-ch
- fixed "gender" language set coding error - chinese - checking for zh-ch
- clean up and refined existing code - and arranged into logical order - applied necessry fixes to external pages
- fixed extra space in russian country list - one country only
- fixed missing country in Japanese country language set - "Puerto Rico"
- fixed missing country in Hindi country language set - "Hungary"
- fixed wrong country name for German country language set - "People's Republic of China"
- Changed the word "Gamer support system" to "Game support system" - due to issues with translation to certain languages - eg Japanese
- Added extra words for multi-lingual(translated more words for the system.)
worked on WPS registration page - language modifications
worked on Main Navigations ASCX - language modifications

2009-09-18;( 6 hours )

Worked on "join esport team"
worked on DataAccess class
created language asset class

2009-09-17;( 1 hours )

note: resumed work - a delay due to illness - unknown/expressed flu
continued working on "join esport team" - fields and initial setup

2009-09-10;( 4 hours )

continued working on "join esport team" - fields and initial setup
continued working on "create esport team" - backend processing code.
started working on "esport team news"

2009-09-09;( 11 hours )

modified installation configuration file - corrected wrong user id for clan
worked on gss navigation
continued working on "join esport team"
continued working on "create esport team"
started working on "esport team news"
worked on GSS navigation - based on logged in and logged out events with members belonging to teams
changed term "Gulan" to "esport team" due to problems with multi language translation

2009-09-07;( 5 hours )

continued working on converting the base wolfpack system class
added new error page redirect - database connection error
worked on login, log out pages/ generic functions for multiple system design
converted installation sql file from proceedures to hard code.

2009-09-06;( 6 hours )

continued working on converting the base wolfpack system class
Updated comments on code around the system
Modified the way users are redirected to error pages

2009-09-05;( 7 hours )

continued working on ban system - implemented multiple system ban with individual system ban identification

2009-09-04;( 14 hours )

Optimised all existing code for entire current version (wps:4.4 and GSS:1.63)
- included better try catch finally statements
- moved code out of sp to inline for security(compiled code)
optimised ban checking system and included ban reasons and date time of ban expire in error handling page.

2009-09-02;( 4 hours )

Started work on GSS create a gulan process including modifications to menu
Fixed menu navigation links and coding layout for optimised returns
Updated WPS and GSS contact links
Updated Error page: session expired - error message and included link back to login page

2009-08-27;( 4 hours )

Worked on menu (GSS and WPS) to handle multiple languages and logged in and logged out states
Updated dedications
automated some member accounts for testing purposes
Translated menu

2009-08-25;( 3 hours )

fixed error handling display bug (no error message displayed when connection failed - bad UI)
fixed login page - not finding account
launched admin user page view log viewer (only alpha release)

2009-08-20;( 6 hours )

Finished to work on login page - ready for beta testing.
Logged in landing area
Started working on logout page
finalised Logged in page (login land in page) - ready for beta testing
finalised logout page - ready for beta testing.
modified dates in the system to GMT/UTC - ready for v2 WFPKsys - which will handle those dates correctly.

2009-08-19;( 6 hours )

Continued to work on login page.
*WHOA* bug: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000796.html (side stepped - and not a bug but thought it was worth mentioning.)
Fixed Test Data : Password encryption due to new login page verification process
Fixed time adjustment clock handling of domain(ToLower)

2009-08-18;( 6 hours )

*WHOA* bug: system time bug was - gregorian time calendar - vs arabic time calendar(not actual bug but learning experience)
updated system messages about dates
Geos, TSK, Ultra - beta tested web page - found bug with language display of chinese(cn - instead of zh) - (UltraNoob found)
Fixed date bug with verification page (Geos found)
Fixed verfication email link bug - (Geos found)
Fixed globalization for application in web config - by defining globalization specific to US(United states)
Fixed IsDateValid function (UltraNoob found/hacked)
Added language support identification for New Zealand(based on log viewing.)
Started working on WPS login page.
ordered code alphabetically- and adjusted page notes (server side)
Crossed 3 items off the road map for version v1.0 (YAAAY!)
Added 2 items to v1.0 road maps (sigh - but necessary)

2009-08-17;( 5 hours )

finalised translation of registration page into other languages
fixed bug with multi language ban message in registration page
delays due to ISP changing IP addresses and security not providing access any more to database
fixed the way registration verfication is done and elimated unnecessary database field
discovered system time bug

2009-08-16;( 5 hours )

continued translation of registration page into other languages
continued work on registration verification
optimised base class code for database interaction

2009-08-15;( 9 hours )

modified page view log to include domain name
optimised code in base class for certain functions
Completed partial translation of registration page into other languages

2009-08-12;( 3 hours )

user ban list and page checker
optimised code in base class for certain functions

2009-08-10;( 8 hours )

Modified User Languages handling based on alpha user testing now have "user language" and "user language to display"
Optimised instation files for stored proceedures and functions
created generic mail function in global functions class(not fully finalised)
Email send out loggin

2009-08-09;( 14 hours )

Developed user logging (also found firefox security breech by microsoft http://www.geek.com/articles/news/microsoft-net-update-installs-firefox-add-on-without-permission-2009061/): delays due to researching and fixing secruity vulnerability
- stored proceedure
- browser capabilities
- modified base class for functionality of user attributes
- research for all required functionality

2009-08-08;( 10 hours )

Removed Moscow as a country from the country list (its a city!)
Converted English Country list to portugese
Removed Qatar, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, Faroe Islands, Taiwan from Country list(as they are states not countries)
Converted English country list to Japanese
Converted English country list to Hindi
Converted English country list to French
Converted English country list to Spanish
Converted English country list to German
Converted English country list to Arabic
Fixed test data installation file (md5 password and country list from Australia to AU)

2009-08-07;( 1 hours )

converted english country list to russian from english

2009-08-05;( 15 hours )

re-wrote registration page (again - sigh 6th time? - based on the feedback of ultranoob)
translated country list to chinese simplified;
added chinese translation of registration page
decided to add japanese language support for system

2009-08-03;( 9 hours )

re-wrote registration page
modified core functions - added, edited
made final decision on which languages and Integrated multiple languages(arabic, german, spanish, french, hindi, portugese, russian, chinese and english as default language ) into the design of the registration page

2009-08-02;( 9 hours )

optimised functions in core clases - is mobile, is supported browser

2009-08-01;( 9 hours )

started work on language integration for Chinese(simplified), German, Spanish, Arabic and English
fixed in appropriate use of label control for registration page

2009-07-31;( 9 hours )

fixed registration page password encryption bug

2009-07-30;( 9 hours )

WolfPack systems move home from dives to www.WFPKSYS.com - Purchased WolfPack Systems Domain Name to start setting up emails, logs, registration etc
Registration page - email doesnt exist validation - with first stored proceedure function!

2009-07-28;( 9 hours )

fought and fought with different anti spam measures and did heaps of research - and finally found a CAPTCHA control that works - sweet :)

2009-07-27;( 9 hours )

worked on registration anti spam measures - possibly invented new method with regex

2009-07-26;( 9 hours )

registration validation page logic -
reg ex for password
password holder so user doesnt have to retype it

2009-07-25;( 9 hours )

researching and testing and continued working on registration validation
added noscript to site

2009-07-24;( 9 hours )

started working on basic security aspects and session data with page validation
modified global functions class to adjust the static members are dealt
re-arranged error pages folder structure and converted to master pages

2009-07-23;( 9 hours )

started working on system registration form

2009-07-22;( 9 hours )

SqlDataSource with Database Store Proceedures.
datareader vs dataset
Error page for mobile devices
redirect users who connect via a mobile/hand held device - via http://www.opera.com/mini/demo/

2009-07-20;( 9 hours )

converted 85% of the website from "command centre" to "WolfPack Systems: Gamer Support System"
setup master pages for website
looked at asp.net localisations
built custom error pages for "WolfPack Systems" - did not include a design - just an error handing message
took a closer look at asp.net css adapters and considering their user

2009-07-17;( 9 hours )

worked on asp.net repeater controls
looked into asp.net css adapters http://www.asp.net/cssadapters/Whitepaper.aspx
Sorted out version numbers for projects Major.Minor.Subrelease (based on project mono)
Coined new term. Gulan - stands for Guilds and clans

2009-07-16

resolved issues with executing install scripts on host - due to lack of support for stored proceedures during a web interface example (live) can be found here http://dives.ws/Members/DisplayMembersFromClan.aspx
moved installation files due to proprietry system possibilities

2009-07-03;( 9 hours )

continual delays in doing a live test due to problem mentioned on the 2009-07-02

2009-07-02;( 9 hours )

retrieval of clan member lists into drop down box
understood reader vs dataset
uploaded databse to wolfpack website for testing purposes on live server
delays in doing a live server test of the alpha database because phpmyadmin doesnt allow stored proceedures to be run

2009-07-01;( 9 hours )

setup basic test data
created test clan 'dragon'
create mysql functions
configuration tables
finished version 1 beta of the database ready for testing Screen shot of the alpha database

2009-06-30;( 9 hours )

Development time delay due to 2 surgical operations and personal real life stuff

Re-wrote database for component based sections (system,gamer, RE)
created XML configuration files instead of database tables
set primary and foreign keys

2009-05-18;( 9 hours )

added command center logo (looks bad on white background but awesome on black)
added additional configuration tables for
Created tables: activities log, multiplayer matchmaking server, member multiplayer matchmaking server
updated the term 'sex' to 'gender'

2009-05-17;( 9 hours )

Renamed titan to command center: including all tables, proceedures

2009-05-12;( 9 hours )

worked on MySQL stored proceedures for backend today.

2009-05-11;( 9 hours )

Included proper commentation for SQL installation file
created tables: game platforms, platform types, community member status along with inserting of appropriate data
create table: recruitment referrer tracking
Figured out how to insert data into database
modified existing tables to suppoert UTF8 and not sweedish1

2009-05-08;( 9 hours )

Started creating SQL scripts for titan system - including Install and un-install scripts.

2009-04-27;( 9 hours )

Modified recruitment date of birth user interface - from calendar to DDL

2009-04-25;( 9 hours )

Updated Home page with "about us" information
Worked on "Recruitment" page - developed recruit class - all required fields for initial layout - property accessors only - no methods

2009-04-24;( 9 hours )

Added Login, Recruitment, Logout, and Landing Page
Added UserControls for footer information and user information (deliberatly not using master pages)
fixed XHTML strict conformance
fixed up naming convention and name for members.cs class - changed from "communitymember.cs" to "member.cs"
Implemented namespace for classes.