Site Timeline

Well, this page will tell you all about the thing that happened to this site, written pretty much as it happened, with a few odd entries for colour and usefulness, concerning 2005. So that you don't get bombarded by lots of random entries, it's broken down by month. I hope this helps.

In fact, this page specifically deals with October 2005, so let's see what there is...

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We found 16 random happenings for your reading leisure.

Date	Notes
29 Oct 2005	Tuning performance boosts both the Elmer Fudd and Sylvester the Cat dialects, especially on pages with many tags. (There are so many factors which affect speed, it's crazy)
27 Oct 2005	A bit of backpedaling ensues - the speed increase functions only work on some pages, and not others (due to an error in the handling of the links, and also in the tag processor). Rewriting removes the bugs, and leads to improvements again... the engine runs about 20% faster than v1.0 did, and actually removes some of the bugs introduced in release 1.1 (24 Oct 2005).
24 Oct 2005	Release 1.1: Speed improvements to HTML handler (prelude to any rewrite in Perl), yields speed increase of upto 40% in pages heavy in HTML.
22 Oct 2005	Proper contact form implemented, as well as proper error handling pages (for 404 Page Not Found, 403 Forbidden and 500 Server Error pages)
21 Oct 2005	First draft of the 'Ye Olde English' dialect coded.
14 Oct 2005	Profiling reveals that the individual translation modules themselves are very fast, but that the backend (which handles webpage downloading and processing) is not and that it takes up 70+% of the runtime of the script. Have decided that moving to a language more geared to text parsing might be an idea... am currently learning Perl to this end.
12 Oct 2005	Performance coding time - programming it to be a little faster. (It's already pretty fast, knowing how hard the code actually has to work) Also implemented a check so that when a page is requested from another server, we also check what the server is reporting it as - so if the server reports it as a picture, we don't even bother downloading it, we just abandon straight away (saving bandwidth and processing time)
11 Oct 2005	A dispute arose - and was sorted out - over the payment of the site. The site spent much of the last 24 hours suspended through apparent non-payment. Meanwhile, I have also rewritten the Sylvester dialect to take advantage of the features of regular expressions, like Fudd's. In so doing, I also realised a couple of sounds which were not processed originally (soft c's, e.g. in dancer and civilisation, which form s sounds)
10 Oct 2005	After a couple of days of proving the site content, I have been made aware of two bugs, one of which has now been patched (the other is not critical and will be fixed in the next day or so). Also rewrote the Elmer Fudd dialect from pure code into using regexp functions (faster, smaller)
8 Oct 2005	Finished writing the How It Works pages. And, guess what... today, WE LAUNCHED! (Version 1.0.0)
7 Oct 2005	Last known outstanding bug fixed. Added a page of outstanding bugs (none) and the known limitations of the server and engine.
6 Oct 2005	Pretty much finished the Sylvester The Cat module. Odd, really, because I'm sure there should be more to it, but I'm really not sure what.
5 Oct 2005	Wrote most of the Sylvester The Cat module, and wrote the Text Engine "How It Works" guide in the About section. Plus a bugfix to the URL processing part of the HTML engine. (That's what beta versions are for, yeah?)
4 Oct 2005	Scrambler and Elmer Fudd dialects complete, and both implemented with full text and webpage support. That means that all the dialects currently on the site are complete. Version 1.0.0-beta2 perhaps?
3 Oct 2005	Pig Latin dialect complete, and implemented with full text and webpage support.
1 Oct 2005	Version 1.0.0-beta1 (I think that's what I'll number it) is ready; internal hit counter implemented, so that I can tell how many text and URL hits I have per day, plus how many failed URLs I get. I am not tracking what type of hit they are, or the address, just whether: Successful Page not found/inaccessible/server error Webmaster has requested site be inaccessible (see here for how)

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