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 2006. So that you don't get bombarded by lots of random entries, it's broken down by month. I hope this helps.

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We found 31 random happenings for your reading leisure.

Date	Notes
25 Nov 2006	Further bugfix to webpage module, in the handling of @import CSS instructions and some instances of BASE tags.
22 Nov 2006	Started work on the Corporate Talk module.
17 Nov 2006	It seems the site was mentioned today (or a recent day, at least) in a paper in Phoenix, Arizona.
9 Jul 2006	Minor bugfix to the webpage portion of the site.
11 Jun 2006	Reorganised the drop-down system for choosing dialects.
4 Jun 2006	After nearly 2 months absence from the project, I removed the graph showing hits. It was beginning to look very boring, being a nearly perfect straight line going upwards.
21 Apr 2006	Finally implemented a new tracker... every time a voice is used successfully (either in webpage or text mode), it adds one to an internal counter for that voice. Hopefully it'll help me find which voices are most popular, and expect to see information on our stats page to show that very soon...
19 Apr 2006	Added links to Firefox and Thunderbird to help the "Spread Firefox" campaign.
23 Mar 2006	A minor bugfix to the tag parsing system was applied. I have also been reviewing the site logs for the purposes of testing (mostly just the error log).
9 Mar 2006	Final testing of the code for Tutnese and adding it to the site.
8 Mar 2006	Research into a quick entry for the voices list - Tutnese. Most of the code is written and tested. Also did a tidiness fix to the URL engine for processing pure text files.
7 Mar 2006	Minor bug fixes and internal cleanups (such as if a page takes too long to process, the TVOM code itself handles the error now instead of the PHP parser doing it in an ugly way, which means it looks more professional and means I can tune it slightly better) Also finally released the Ubby Dubby voice (having got it to case match correctly)
27 Feb 2006	Started work on the Drunken Slur voice.
26 Feb 2006	Swedish Chef is finally completed, despite having been in development and testing for nearly 3 months.
24 Feb 2006	Added the Daffy Duck voice.
23 Feb 2006	Added the Gollum voice to the live site.
21 Feb 2006	Updated the internals of the webpage processor, which boosts speed by something like 8-10% on that alone, plus implemented a system to improve sitewide performance by something like 50%+.
18 Feb 2006	Started work on the Gollum voice.
11 Feb 2006	We have today finalised - and carried out - the server move from our previous host to our new host. We have not encountered any problems in the transition, but please, if you find any problem, please let us know through the contact page.
5 Feb 2006	Our BS Analyser is written, tested and launched.
1 Feb 2006	Amended a few links and a bugfix (added support for EMBED tags in the webpage engine) Also began work on the helper library for the translation engines.
28 Jan 2006	Converted the site to use PNG images instead of GIF images, in preparation for a server move.
20 Jan 2006	Started to implement the Ubby Dubby dialect.
16 Jan 2006	A little more work on the cosmetic side of the site including a new logo and a bit more work on the Foghorn Leghorn dialect.
15 Jan 2006	Development of the "email a translation" feature halted: I do not believe the site is currently busy enough to warrant it, nor do I think it will generate that much traffic, actually. It just seemed to be one of those "it sounds cool so I think I'll try it" ideas.
14 Jan 2006	Started to add in "Related links" sections on the different voice pages (in the Voices section), for links related to a specific voice.
9 Jan 2006	End-A-Line is complete and implemented in both text and URL engines, and paves the way for all sorts of new ideas.
8 Jan 2006	Begun the rewrite for End-A-Line (based on "Up a tree" and the newly released "Behind a bush"). Basically it bugged me that we had two dialects which did almost precisely the same thing, and internally the same thing, so I started to rewrite them to allow user selection from one dialect, under "End A Line", as in "End A Line with [string]"
7 Jan 2006	Added in the "Behind a Bush" voice. Also made a patch to the HTML system which fouled up on some circumstances of non-quoted HTML attributes.
5 Jan 2006	A few improvements are made to the Buccaneer dialect, plus a rewrite to the code of the Links pages makes it easier for me to add new links.
4 Jan 2006	The first update of 2006 brings in a new voice: Buccaneer (Pirate) although more development on others is also planned.

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