http://fangamer.com/blog Design/Dev/Business Blog Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:31:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm going to attempt to keep this blog up-to-date, even if I only publish changelists. Unfortunately, I don't do the banners. That's Reid's thing. If you notice, the forum now has much awesome searching. Much love to Sphinx, our search engine, and Chronic, the natural language date parser. Since a search query ... http://fangamer.com/blog/2008/07/31/awesome-searching/ And you guys thought this blog would never get updated... Well to recap what's happened since April(!), we launched the new forum without too terribly much of a hitch. There's been a few hiccups along the way, things not working after caching issues, Passenger issues (which, thankfully, have been fixed with ... http://fangamer.com/blog/2008/07/27/whew-its-been-a-few-long-months/ We won't be able to do the public beta this weekend. Reid and I have some personal matters to attend to. Originally I wanted to release it last weekend as more of a preview build, to show off to you guys and bug test. However, now that we've slipped beta release ... http://fangamer.com/blog/2008/04/24/quick-beta-update/ Welcome to this month in Fangamer... we should probably update more often, but Reid and I have been working with bugs, bugs, and more bugs. I do have some extremely good news though, we're almost ready for a public beta. You need a forum account on our current forums, so ... http://fangamer.com/blog/2008/04/21/beta-testing-and-smilies/ It's been a month since our last post! We're not dead. In fact, things are going quite well. Reid's finally working 100% on the CSS, and things are looking really, really nice! What better way than to show off some screenshots? First here is a screenshot of the front page. We ... http://fangamer.com/blog/2008/03/29/screenshots/ I've been working on the forum for quite awhile now, and it's almost finished. For example, today I added the thumb up/thumb down functionality. I'm getting down to the more useless stuff, which is nice. Despite a couple of missing features, I could probably switch the old forums tomorrow if ... http://fangamer.com/blog/2008/02/25/forum-is-coming-along-nicely/ The second half of my insane-o long post, wherein I'll be discussing the work we've gotten done on Fangamer's design/code since February. A tl;dr summary for the lazy among us: I got some mockups done Started work on the XHTML/CSS Ryan has made TONS of progress on the forum Again, we've got some more ... http://fangamer.com/blog/2008/02/23/getting-things-done/ A quick summary of what's been going on: Got a new computer (I can Photoshop again!) Got a loan for Fangamer Got a handful of investors/owners There's a lot more, but this is already a huge post, so I'm actually going to split it up into two updates and post the second half tomorrow. ... http://fangamer.com/blog/2008/02/21/more-money-less-problems/ It's been awhile since Reid has made a post. Things are going quite smoothly. The train has left the station and we're on a roll! While I'm not as wordy as Reid, I'd like to start about some fancy features we're implementing, and Reid'd like to show you a couple ... http://fangamer.com/blog/2008/02/03/the-train-keeps-chugging-woo-woo/ Long time since the last update, but there's been lots going on in the meantime. Lawyer-Time Incorporation Station is rolling along, I'm getting ready to bring on some investors, Ryan has begun full-time work, and I'm deleting files indiscriminately to make room for the massive Photoshop files I'm working ... http://fangamer.com/blog/2008/01/11/big-wheel-keeps-on-turnin/