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Cya, Alex

Progress has been slow over the last couple of weeks but I've been working on a few forms and results pages. Don't know if anyone noticed but this web site has been down for a while. My fault for working on back end stuff and not checking the home page. :D

I am going away in a weeks time so there probably won't be any updates but keep and eye on my photo gallery.

Alex

It’s been a while since the last update so I thought I should post something. The main news is I have been trying and failing to get a http handler working and it’s frustrating me, so I have taken a break from it for a while (you can see how it takes me so long to get anything done on FYF).

Other than that I had a quick go and a new ranking system. There have been some ongoing complaints about the current ranking system from one of the leagues who say that the number one player could stay in that position indefinitely without playing another game. There are a few ways to solve this, by adding a challenge system or dropping the player down the ladder if they fail to play a game in a certain time frame, but I have decided to try a new points-based system which rewards a player for recent wins. I was quite happy with the results although there are still a couple of negative aspects, as there are with the current system. I may post my results soon for comparison to the current ranking system.

So there you have it, there is progress being made even if it is painfully slow. I will be back with more updates soon (hopefully). :D

Alex

Well I've got the photo gallery finished in .NET. I thought this would be a good place to start as it's nice and easy to code. I came across a few interesting problems along the way, the most interesting being the Image control adding a style="border-width:0px" tag to an image when I didn't want it to. I tried and tried to remove this attribute but couldn't figure it out. In the end I discovered the HtmlImage control which didn't add the offending tag.

I plan on adding thumbnails for each of the categories so that you don't have to cycle through each photo if you don't want to, but that is a bit further down my list of things to do. Some descriptions for photos also wouldn't go astray but writing has never been my strong point so I think I will continue to put that off. :)

Alex

Welcome to the FYF ASP.NET 2 Web site. I've bought the faceyoursfears.net domain, the second of many I'm sure (I'll get that fyf.com one day damn it)! I got this one on joker.com, same as I did with faceyoursfears.com. They seem to be pretty good value, $33 for two years and seeing as I get hosting for free I reckon I've got a pretty good deal. :)

While I'm working on this site you can still view the existing ASP version of FYF. There's not much you can do though unless you are part of the Reactive League or the original FYF League. You can also view my Online Photo Gallery if you are interested in that sort of thing :). I try to keep it updated as much as possible.

In case you're interested there has been xx reports made on FYF to date. And there's my first bit of ASP.NET code! :)

That's it for now... Hopefully I'll have some more site updates sooner rather than later.

Alex