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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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I thought I would post an update here since there haven't been many new features and only a few critical bug fixes recently.
I've been working on RPG Geek.
I've got the structure in place for a generic "Item" which is currently what you know as a game page (i.e. Game). These items are able to have an unlimited number of relationships like the current set (Designer, Publisher, Mechanic, Category, etc...) I'll be adding Artist to the current board game structure when this is done.
Now I am peeling the onion of converting and integrating into the current systems.
The current Geek runs on a boatload of scripts that are mostly ad hoc queries scattered all over the place. 90% of these scripts were written with a single track mindset of "boardgames" - not good for expansion and adding new itemtypes.
I'm refactoring and doing some rewriting of many of those scripts into their own classes so that the database model is centralized for the particular object that each system is responsible for (phew).
After recently rewriting the geeklists and the image system they are in good shape to fit into the new system, but the rabbit hole goes deep and there's a lot of interdependency of the other systems (search, forums, collection, stats, etc...)
I was hoping to be further along at this point, but it's going well. I imagine we'll have a beta period at some point for testing. I'll keep y'all informed.
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vincit omnia amentia
United States
Howard County
Maryland
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Witty comments fail me. Good luck working all that out!
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Matthew Jones
United States
Forest Grove
Oregon
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I wanna +2 Item that gets
my me to a Thaco of 5, please...
Edit: Spelling
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Play Games - Interact - Have Fun!
United States
California
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*Opens Door*
"Good Luck, we're all counting on you."
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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manowarplayer wrote: *Opens Door* "Good Luck, we're all counting on you."
...and quit calling me Shirley. 
Refactoring is a bear. It feels like trying to perform a heart operation while the patient is running on the treadmill. In any event, good luck, we're all counting on you.
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Martin
United States
Bainbridge Island
Washington
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Aldie wrote: I've been working on RPG Geek.
Your focus on improving the RPG database is misplaced. Users will simply imagine it's a great/terrible system based on their own character's disposition. GM's will roll a d20 to determine the site's quality.
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Get up, get up, get up, get down, fall over.
United Kingdom
Bolton
Lancashire
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Aldie - whatever you do - please don't stop me accessing boardgames through rpggeek.com. Work has blocked Boardgamegeek.com and I don't think I can go 8 hours straight without a fix
Seriously though, it is great to have an update from you. There have been a lot of great suggestions for improvements recently and it seemed like (from the outside) there was not much happening. An occasional note saying that you are busily tinkering down there in the engine room on Important Technical Stuff like wot you sed keeps us all patient. It is appreciated.
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Aaron Tubb
United States
Fuquay Varina
North Carolina
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boltongeordie wrote: Aldie - whatever you do - please don't stop me accessing boardgames through rpggeek.com. Work has blocked Boardgamegeek.com and I don't think I can go 8 hours straight without a fix
Have you tried www.wargamegeek.com ?
or perhaps www.boardgamegeeks.com ?
Or maybe it's just the word 'game' that causes the site to be unaccessible...
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Matthew M Monin
United States
Branford
Connecticut
8/8 FREE, PROTECTED
513ers Assemble!
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Have you tried www.bgg.cc?
-MMM
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Get up, get up, get up, get down, fall over.
United Kingdom
Bolton
Lancashire
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Aarontu wrote:
Octavian wrote:
Thank you guys, this is fantastic, 3 new URLs to use when they cotton on to rpggeek.com. They will never stop me, never I tells ya!
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Michael Medlin
United States
Montara
CA
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boltongeordie wrote: Aldie - whatever you do - please don't stop me accessing boardgames through rpggeek.com. Work has blocked Boardgamegeek.com and I don't think I can go 8 hours straight without a fix
Unless they've got the IP blocked, too, you can always try "69.13.44.4". (A little less reliable should Aldie change colos, but a trace route will always yield the current IP.)
--mike
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ain't nuthin' but a
United States
Plainwell
Michigan
Holy wah! This is an expensive place to put random crap! And further, please DO NOT FIX GeekQuestions tipping** OR thumb counts. Both are a critical part of its charm (such as it is). ** Except for Purplewurple who totally deserves it!
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Cool! Looking forward to seeing it in action.
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Troy Hughes
United States
Orlando
Florida
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Wait a minnit...
I fell for this on April Fool's Day!
What, is this a First of August joke, a little early???
But seriously folks... looking forward to this. Now my wife can be a geek too!
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John Farrell
Australia
Aspley
Queensland
Averagely Inadequate
Buster Keaton from 'Go West'
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matthew.marquand wrote: Refactoring is a bear. It feels like trying to perform a heart operation while the patient is running on the treadmill. In any event, good luck, we're all counting on you.
I love it! I'm sure Aldie's having more fun at his job than I am. It is hard work, but it's so rewarding when you see that your ideas for how it should work were right all along... or else you're wrong and you discover something really important about your domain model that you didn't realise before.
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John Earles
Canada
Toronto
Ontario
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matthew.marquand wrote: Refactoring is a bear. It feels like trying to perform a heart operation while the patient is running on the treadmill. In any event, good luck, we're all counting on you.
Ummm... you have a full regression suite of xUnit tests, right? Right?
Stop right now and write those tests!!!
Sounds like a cool project, Aldie! More exciting that my day-to-day project... and you get to work in your shorts and eat cheetos. Taking a system that was designed prodominately as a "single-tasker" and trying to genericize its design is not easy - but ever so satisfying when it all comes back together.
Now about those xUnit tests...
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Eric Franklin
United States
Everett
Washington
He sees you when you're sleeping; he knows when you're awake ...
He knows if you've been bad or good.
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Will you track die types used?
I've gotta break out my RPGBabble, now, too:
"It's a roll-high exploding d10-based selective die pool system."
(Legend of the Five Rings RPG)
Eric
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Robert Wesley
Nepal
Aberdeen
Washington
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Yes, while will you be placing the "servors" within your parent's basement? and were there to be any "beverages" spilt upon those, does that mainly consist of "Mountain Dew"? ... with perhaps "Cheetos" dustings?
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Michael Bachelor
United States
Washington
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GROGnads wrote: Yes, while will you be placing the "servors" within your parent's basement? and were there to be any "beverages" spilt upon those, does that mainly consist of "Mountain Dew"? ... with perhaps "Cheetos" dustings?
Anyone who has seen Old Saturday Night Live shows knows that it's the PEPSI syndrome you have to worry about, not Mountain Dew....
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Steve Cates
United States
Visalia
California
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Aldie is a level 70 Techie advanced class with a +10 modifier on the Computer Use skill and he still needs a natural 20 to complete this challenge! You can do it!
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Barak E
United States
San Pablo
CA
And the Geek shall Inherit the Earth
I am the Unholy Trifecta: Agnostic, Atheist, and Skeptic. You gotta problem with that?
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Aarontu wrote:
Or my very own www.geek-golf.com
I mean, THEY play golf... WE play boardgames!
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J (RBG)
Canada
Slave Lake
AB
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boltongeordie wrote: Aarontu wrote: Octavian wrote: Thank you guys, this is fantastic, 3 new URLs to use when they cotton on to rpggeek.com. They will never stop me, never I tells ya!
And hey, if none of that works you can do what I've done for years: save interesting pages to .TXT and read it in Notepad (or on a Palm) later on.
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James Davis
Australia
Canberra
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boltongeordie wrote: Aarontu wrote: Octavian wrote: Thank you guys, this is fantastic, 3 new URLs to use when they cotton on to rpggeek.com. They will never stop me, never I tells ya!
and a 4th http://69.13.44.4/
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Burke Glover
United States
Unspecified
Delaware
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I think it should be called RPG Dork to help us differentiate the two. Of course it would be just "The Dork" for short.
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Mike Siggins
England
Cambridge
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Great to see progress on this. Looking forward to it.
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Robert Wesley
Nepal
Aberdeen
Washington
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mbtigger wrote: GROGnads wrote: Yes, while will you be placing the "servors" within your parent's basement? and were there to be any "beverages" spilt upon those, does that mainly consist of "Mountain Dew"? ... with perhaps "Cheetos" dustings? Anyone who has seen Old Saturday Night Live shows knows that it's the PEPSI syndrome you have to worry about, not Mountain Dew.... 
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