Announcements: (past announcements)

2/6/2010 - IE Fixes
I fixed some issues with the login form (upper right corner) that was preventing IE 7 + 8 users from being able to just hit the 'Return' key for logging in. The old form always seemed to work for Firefox users but for IE 7 + 8, you would have to explicitly click on the login button. Either way, this should now be fixed so you IE users shouldn't be as confused anymore. :-)


2/5/2010 - New Site Security Roles Defined
It has become apparent over the last year that some users would really like to help participate in the site in various areas. I didn't have a lot of security driven functionality outside of one superuser (me) and then members having access to their own info. I have created three new security roles and assigned some users into those groups based upon conversations I have had. The two new roles are 'Mask Moderator' which allows a user to create, edit and delete any serial number mask in the database. The next one is a 'Serial Snooper' and this role allows the user to edit and/or delete any serial submission in the IPSND. The final one is a typical 'Administrator' and allows the user to do user maintenance, assign roles and run Synchronizations with the Internet Pinball Database. If you are interested in learning about these roles and their responsibilities drop me an email.

2/4/2010 - Development Tasks added
I added a new main menu item called 'Development Tasks' that shows the current queue of stuff that I am trying to work on and what I am planning on working on in the near or not-so-near future. The idea is that members can submit topics here and if they cut the mustard, they will go onto the development list. There have been some great topics coming up about deeper questions on how the IPSND should interpret and collect data and hopefully those lead to more insight and more development on my end.

1/28/2010 - Skin Updates
I deployed new code today that has the newest version of Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX this morning. So, some of the grids look a little different at this point. My goal is to soon give members the ability to choose their skin in the member preferences which would allow members to customize the way the IPSND looks for them. The 'big picture' goal is to take this to the point where even the background images can be selected by category... so for example, a member might select 'EM Games' as their preference on backgrounds, and so they would only get older EM games showing for their random backgrounds.

1/18/2010 - Silverlight Experimentation
I am starting to experiment wtih Silverlight as there are several areas where some client side processing might work better and to be honest with you, I don't like Javascript. :-) Right now, the top logo is built with Silverlight and so in order to see the logo at all, you will need Silverlight installed. I will be working on fixing the logo to be 'Non-Silverlight' compatible this week again. So... what does this fancy new Silverlight logo do for you? Well... not much. However, you if you rotate your mouse wheel upwards when hovering over the logo, you can cycle through some random colors. The color you leave it on, is the color that it should remain on the entire site forever (I think), so pick a nice color and enjoy. I will get the default color set back to the Yellow that it used to be rather than the ugly red that is currently there!!!!!