| News on CWF: |
| 2008-05-06 15:03:13 | Chroelle |
April in retrospect By Chroelle |
Well once more a month has passed, and I figured that this time I would write the news. The site has been buzzing with background activities this last month, where lots of little bugs and annoyances have been fixed and removed.
April was also the month where the sun finally came through the clouds in the northern parts of Europe (where most of our crew lives). This of course also means that with the sun out, everybod leaves their computers and hold their hands over their eyes, trying to shake the winter snowblindness off and adjust to a new warmer climate.
This of course also means a natural drop in activity and we expect that after having panicked te firt year it happened. During summer people have other things to do than add games and post topics on their favourite forum. They go to the beach and on vacation and wait for the fall to hit with its freezing winds and wet days, that drag you back into the comfort of a cair shaped like...you...(lets stick to that word) and a computer with lots of games to play, and a friendly neighbourhood forum waiting for you to drop back in and buy someone a virtual beer for being back.
Games will still be played and games will still be added but expect the flow to go down a notch.
The last 10 days or so have been very ctive in the gamehunting departement. We have tested a lot of games and alot of them have been very good, so expect some new cool games to be added to our batch soon.
Maz and Zyx has been active in the bugtracker and as such not so much on the forums. Check out the bugtracker to see what happened in there.
We are hoping to see you during the summer in here, but if not then we truelly hope to see you in fall when the comfy-chair calls.
Have a great summer everyone. |
| 2008-04-15 07:07:16 | Maz |
Site Performance? |
Hi deeee Ho peeps!
As many of you know, a while ago our host had problems with their database servers. It resulted CWF being almost totally down for a weekend. We did receive a formal 'we are sorry' email a few days after the incident, (and after we had emailed them and stated it quite clearly that we will not continue paying for service which is constantly in troubles...)
Well, it seems CWF has been up after the problems with DB servers were solved, but somehow I have sensed some performance issues with the site recently. It may be due to my own ISP (Internet Service Provider) who's having problems, or then surftown's servers are still not quite Ok.
The point in this babbling was following request:
If you encounter problems with the CWF website, (broken downloads, pages not loading, blank pages, errormessages tc.) please drop me a mail at Mazziesaccount@gmail.com
( Naturally you can also drop me a mail if your download/browsing experience worked as expected :) )
This way I can collect some statistics about the possible problems. Changing a host may be (sooner or later) relevant in any case, since our baby (I'm referring to CWF) is getting too big to wear it's current clothes.
However I am waiting for your emails, and I guarantee that I am grateful for each one I receive :)
Truly your's
-Maz "The Bugmaker" |
| 2008-03-31 23:27:08 | Maz |
Summary of march 2008 in Maz's point of view. |
March, a month I have always liked. A month when sun reaches northern Finland again, after long and cold period of darkness. Usually march makes me really feel alive again :)
However at this year march was not pure joy. Our younger kiddo started to keep us awake at nights again, after good, decently slept two weeks. So I have not managed to do half of the CWF jobs I had planned. I have also been a bit down, due to a bad health of one of my close relatives. But let's focus to what has been done instead of dwelling what was not accomplished.
GHs and chroelle have been busy again with finding, testing and adding games. I cannot do anything but wonder how can thy keep up the speed day after day. Thumbs Up! eMTe has also finally had the news section he wanted on CWF. I promised I'll try to do it during march, and I did it, it was still 10 minutes before april arrived to Finland when I fixed last 'showstopper class' bug :p I am anxiously waiting to be able to read about events of freeware world from our own site :)
One big event regarding the development of CWF was also done in march. Our more or less 'lost in action' coder Zyx did a comeback. And what kind of a comeback! at first he set up a bugtracker (mantis, open source, minor bugs with issue filtering but I can nevertheless recommend) for CWF. That allowed people to remind me about the feature requests and bugs I had long since forgotten. What Zyx did next was creating a new tool for managing our game data. New tool is far simpler to use than the one I originally wrote. It also fixed a major bug that kept corrupting our database and prevented us efficiently creating new feature for bringing a developer specific info in one page. This page is now in to-do list :)
What about me then? Actually, once again nothing much. Inspired by bugtracker I fixed some minor bugs, and did some small features in the site's engine. I have also tried to contact to a few other freeware sites, and communities to create some fruitfull relationships. This far all I have accomplished has been couple of banner exchanges. And I do not mean to say banner exchanges are a small thing, it really is not, but I wished I was more successfull. Well, in case you have a freeware site, you can email to me if you wish to suggest link/banner exchange. It is also highly appreciated if developers want to link to us, after all we do have links to your sites :)
And finally, I cannot avoid mentioning that a few developers have visited our forums, and dropped a note about their games. It is just plain great to see creative souls on board! Thumbs up
HAVE A NICE SPRING ALL!
Ps. If you have created a freeware game which is good and needs publicity, feel free to write a few lines about it to our forums. It may end up being hosted on our site, and even if it didn't, the forum post will stay and spread the word for you :) |
| 2008-03-28 23:45:04 | Maz |
Tired. |
I am sorry for late and short message, which may not even reach half of you :( It is late in Finland, I had busy and lousy day at work, and I need to get up way too early - hence short message.
Our host seems to be in troubles once again. The whole day the database server has experienced problems, and our site has been unavailable most of the day. I am a bit terrified since at last spring their database servers were overcrowded and down regularly...
However I just wanted to tell you, that at this time I am not to blame :D (Usually it's my "Cool New Feature" which still contains even cooler bugs...) I cannot tell you how long this is expected to continue, I have not received any word from surftown regarding their problems. I hope Chroelle knows better, and if he doesn't, then we should ask... I feel it is stupid and frustrating to pay for service which does not work. (Although I am not paying at all, Chroelle handles all of that ;) )
Now.. Good Night anyways. |
|
|
>
|
Calendar 
