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Jan. 1, 2009
Steven Skoczen started following Andrew Shoffstall
Jan. 1, 2009
Steven Skoczen started following Tom Noble
Dec. 31, 2008
Welcome, Alpha testers!
by SixLinks Developers - Steven Skoczen
Hey everyone,

Welcome to SixLinks!

Jeff and I have spent the last six months of our lives making this site, and now it passes to you to use, break, and help us improve!

As your emails noted, you have the bugtracker and the content wiki for things that you need ...
Dec. 30, 2008
Testing stuff! has a new comment by Steven Skoczen,
Dec. 30, 2008
One day left, and the combing of silliness
by Steven Skoczen
Lots of bugfixes (20+, I think) today, little enhancements, and the pulling of some old cruft data.

I have to be honest, removing Tomo's fake "put shading on your house" guide made me a bit sad. I've been working with that guide for the last few months, and ...
updated Dec. 29, 2008
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Dec. 29, 2008
More new features!
by SixLinks Developers - Steven Skoczen
So, now you can favorite a particular discussion, and have it show up in your updates when something happens. Plus, the feed items for comments and discussions were reworked to be more useful. So that's cool.

Also, the page formerly known as "bugs" (big picture fixes) now exists and ...
Dec. 29, 2008
Yay, new features! has a new comment by Steven Skoczen,
Dec. 28, 2008
It's really starting to feel real.
by SixLinks Developers - Steven Skoczen
There's still lots of tuning across the site, but for the first time, I really feel like the core of its features are there.

Tonight's updates brought groups and teams up to their full functionality (minus discussions and wikis). It fixed a ton of minor bugs and styling ...
Dec. 28, 2008
Steven Skoczen started following
Dec. 26, 2008
Actually, make that major code refactor HIT.
by SixLinks Developers - Steven Skoczen
It's live now.

Groups and teams models aren't in, but I wanted to get the refactored profiles up and tested before pushing up the other stuff.

It all works locally, and should work online. Let me know if you see any errors!
Dec. 26, 2008
Warning. Major code refactor hitting tonight.
by SixLinks Developers - Steven Skoczen
So, in writing teams and groups, it became clear to me that profiles (and thus, avatars, badges, etc) needed to be split into its own app.

This means scary things for the upgrade process tonight.

I'll make multiple backups of everything, and all of the data should transfer over ...
Dec. 26, 2008
As you may have noticed, you can now edit your profile pic.
by Steven Skoczen
That, along with news articles hitting the updates feed properly, and filtering for guides and fixes.

Further filtering got pushed back to Wasabi, because if it's going to be any more complex than it currently is, I want to do it right, and not write disposa-code.

Also, for future ...
Dec. 24, 2008
Programming is so weird sometimes
by SixLinks Developers - Steven Skoczen
Yesterday, I slogged and slogged, getting for 15 hour's work, not a whole lot.

Today, in just 11, I got:
- Community page
- List of all fixes
- LIst of all guides
- LIst of all people
- News pages working in every section
- News submission page.


Weird. Just weird.

Also, Merry Christmas ...
Dec. 24, 2008
This is a test story.
suggested by Steven Skoczen
Dec. 23, 2008
great quote
by Steven Skoczen
from the LOTR dvd

"And once you've given up, of course, the prophecy is self-fulfilling"
Dec. 23, 2008
A day of fighting with Pinax, but then things got better
by SixLinks Developers - Steven Skoczen
So I spent most of the day fighting with Pixax, a what-looks-to-be awesome framework for django that would help us out a lot at SixLinks.

Unfortunately, its components aren't decoupled enough to be useful, and we'd need an almost month-1 rewrite of SixLinks - with no guarantees that what ...
Dec. 22, 2008
new home page.
by SixLinks Developers - Steven Skoczen
it is awesome.

that is all.
updated Dec. 22, 2008
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updated Dec. 22, 2008
How to stave-off burnout
by SixLinks Developers - Steven Skoczen
So I've been working 15-17 hours/day, 7 days a week for at least the past three months. (Four? what month is it, anyway?)

In that time, I've written somewhere around 20,000 lines of code, and am really starting to feel the effects of lack o' sleep ...
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