January 2010
13 posts
New FireFox Pimp Agent Uploaded
All,
A new Agent has been uploaded. Seems there was a problem with the “New Mail” Icon that was showing up in utopia. Its a Unicode character and that breaks Agent a bit from sending intel.
The new version can be found here: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12179
If you don’t don’t know what Agent is and you use FIREFOX, I would definitely suggest looking...
How to 'CLEAR' your kingdoms for the NEXT age.
Hey all,
With me working hard on updates, I forgot to mention how to clear your kingdoms for next age.
Side Note: You don’t have to clear your kingdom if you don’t want to. You will ALWAYS (if space is available) be able to go back to old kingdoms and reminisce so to speak.
1. Under Tools -> Add my kingdom -> Add your kingdom just like you did when first signing up. Once...
Heads Up
Hey all,
Just wanted to give you all a heads up. I haven’t been getting any errors in the pimp and it looks like its going pretty fast.
So, whats up next for me? Im gonna start working on the feedback items here very soon. Right now im fixing how the CE’s are captured. Im tired of Sean and Brian not reading some things on my website and these bloody problems need to be fixed.
So...
Membership user table updates complete
Hey all,
I just finished updating the user tables. Hopefully it all went well and everything works correctly!! I sure am hoping it does!
ST.
Creating a New Database right now.
All,
If your reading this while the site is down, its because I am moving the membership tables over from one database to another to help speed up the site one more time.
It should be back up in no time, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up on whats happening right now.
SpoiledTechie
Got one more Trick up my sleave before I move...
Hey guys,
So the speed up is ALMOST done. I know, ive said that a few times. But I have one more thing I want to do before I am done with the speed up. I am going to be moving all the membership tables to their own database…
Why? Because of the amount of calls I do to the membership tables to keep you guys logged in
PLUS
Once the membership info is moved over, all users will then...
Updated...Multiple Provinces were showing.
Hey guys,
Again, sorry for the multiple provinces showing. Since I don’t have access to a test server and people to test on it, I have to go through these trial an errors to see where bugs pop up! Im am sorry for the delay. I hope people are okay with the fact I dont have anyone to test the code I put up…
I seemed to have fixed the multiple provinces showing up in one kingdom...
Its 5:30 AM and Im done for tonight!
Hey all,
Yep, thats right. Yours truly stayed up till 5am to speed up pimp more. You might not notice an improvement, but I killed almost ALL Errors in pimp!
The only main error im getting are still deadlocks on the server. I killed about 25 more queires tonight and cached those bitches. lol. I have a few more tricks up my sleeve which means I have one more day or so of speeding up pimp and...
Kingdom Page, Add Your Kingdom and CE Page...
All,
Just wanted to let everyone know, Its hard for me to find errors by my self. So if you do find a pressing error that just never works, PLEASE find me on IRC…
A few errors that popped up in the last couple of days because I was making the site faster.
The CE Page, Kingdom Page are now working again when you update them!!! Sorry all! Things happen…
Also, if you have been...
Getting faster!!!
Pimp is getting a bit faster!!!
Ive killed about 10 queries so far. Ive been putting a bit into the OS Cache. I have plenty of memory, but the Database calls are still the bottleneck.
I know most people aren’t noticing an improvement, but most pages are being sped up by a full few seconds..
Im still working on the Speed up though. Hopefully I should be through with them soon so I can...
Speeding it up!!!
Hey all,
Just wanted to let you know my progress. I got the At-a-Glance page to load much faster after taking like 6 or 7 database queries down to only 1. Which helps a ton. I am still working on the other pages for I think the kingdom datapage will def be the hardest along with the CE page since those are the most rapidly changing pages.
Thanks for sticking with me! Once people start...
SLOWWWWW...
Just a quick update,
I am working hard on the SLOWWW down of pimp. Its because of all the people that were still using the old pimp have now transferred to mine. The slowness is a combination of mostly database calls. So I trying my best to speed those bad boys up and have a less amount of them!
Hope you all understand. I am working on it!!
Working Better now.
Wanted to let you know, Pimp is getting better now.
I removed a ton of errors and problems by removing the tables. Hopefully it will now work better. I know there are still problems with Speed and quickness of the website. I am working on cleaning up the queues.
Im almost there to where I can start looking at user suggested problems on the Feedback tab.