What a Week!
This has been one helluva week here at BlogShares. To kick things off, we got the new database box installed and serving live data. This is the new db box that started as a community fund drive and became the desperately needed major upgrade to the entire site. The web box got a kernal upgrade and many needed optimizations. This broke a few things codewise, but we've tracked down and fixed all major bugs to this point. And that was just the first 3 days...
We've seen the launch of Turbo Chances (and saw the Chip Market prices surge for days as a result). In-game message handling got smarter. Composite scores are now figured hourly (previously every 3 hours). The Industry Trading tool is available once more. A rewrite of the Players Market (p2p ideas market) is in the queue. And the big one: Share searching is back online, bringing back a very long awaited and very powerful tool for share play.
We'd love to officially congratulate the newest BlogShares Elite: Sage Enterprises. She has stepped down as an Admin, but she'll still be around and in force. She's held practically every role the game has to offer, but has never lost her keenest of game smarts. A very much deserved honor.
We'd also like to welcome J.T. Sage and beachtiglet to the GIC team. Ken and Ts (along with many other beta testers and bug finders) have been invaluable to the Admin and BOD this week, and are eager to see the new recruits jump into the mix. Lots of cool things are suddenly possible in BlogShares, and I cannot wait to see what the team will come up with.
For what is a first to my knowledge, someone with certified legal education has joined the BSEC. We're not sure whether to be happy about that or scared, but either way, welcome to immunis. I'm sure someone will find a cheatypants for you to bust very soon.
Don't forget to get your vote in for BlogShares Wacko and buy raffle tickets for the upcoming Futurama DVD giveaway.
Let me leave you with a pic from October when ID and IT visited Jay and SubWolf in central California. SubWolf was on his way back to the UK the next day, after having spent an extra week in the US after his mom broke her foot the night before the original flight out. Twas a great trip, and I love this shot of the 3 guys that are Santa Cruz Tech finally in the same place at the same time.
Comments
Welcome to the GIC JT and Tig!! And welcome to the BSEC Immunis!! :)
Valuable additions to the team.
Posted by: nexy | November 19, 2007 9:19 PM
Yea for the Player's Market!!! :)
Posted by: Dr. Chocolate | November 20, 2007 4:21 AM
We did some pre-alpha testing last night of the old player market code and decided it was just too old and too clunky to use, and impossible to expand. So I've bitten the bullet of doing a total re-write of it and will add support for proxy bidding, as well as selling. And improve the interface and fix up the original bugs that never got squished.
So it'll be a few weeks yet before anyone sees any movement on this front, but it's a big, but fun, task ahead!
Posted by: AdamF | November 20, 2007 4:56 AM
Again, I say YEA for the Player's Market! :)
And who is who in the pic?
Posted by: Dr. Chocolate | November 21, 2007 11:43 AM
I get this message trying to go into the Industry Trading page:
Sorry, this page is available to Premium Members only at this time. Please upgrade your account to gain access.
The last I checked I was a premium. Is there some ultra premium level I am not aware of? If so, how much? ;-}
Posted by: mortal_one | November 21, 2007 1:51 PM
jay, rob, me
Posted by: Island Dave | November 21, 2007 10:10 PM
Heh, heh. I always pictured you (Dave) as being, like, old. :)
Posted by: Dr. Chocolate | November 22, 2007 5:04 AM
LMFAO!
Posted by: billythekid | November 25, 2007 5:10 AM