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Zimba's Blog

October 08, 2007

Sunday was a super productive day of grinding small tasks that needed to be done for CR. None of it was glamorous, and most of it was tedious, but very needed. After completing a number of these issues in the morning, I moved onto the bigger task of videos. In the transfer of videos over from the older server and system to the new one, all kinds of problems occured with titling, categorizations and file connections. With over 450 videos from the past two years, its quite a chore to wade through them all. We've added new and expanded categories to search the videos: pro, site, game, stakes, size, tables, and type. I'm probably through 80% of the videos now. All the videos will be chronologically ordered, and searchable by more categories than ever before. When you pull up a pro, all their videos are nicely ordered and presented. Within the next couple days I should have that task finished.

It's been nice to see more and more of the launch related issues disappating so we can begin to move to the front end site improvements. The forums and blogs will get some adjustments along with other functionality for the site. Steady incremental progress makes Operations Managers like me happy. Its also fun to be doling out prizes every day as part of our big celebration. We've had a great first two years of operation and have great members that we are thrilled to be awarding some fun prizes to over the next several weeks.

Early tomorrow morning we have our first CR meeting since Taylor, Ezra and Andrew flew to Aruba. As always, we will have much to discuss. We are getting closer to making additional announcements that members will appreciate. I need to get to bed now to rest my back. I threw it out in the little time I spent away from the computer today. I was removing the screens from all the windows and bent and stretched it the wrong way. I guess it's a sign I shouldn't leave my computer chair ever....LOL

Entry Tags: the, and, will, have, all, videos

Oct 8, 07 01:38:06

keep up the good work :]

TrebleHook

Oct 8, 07 03:01:13

Great work, noticed the videos in order this evening.

On a side note, that background color must be, well, banished.....

pf22100

Oct 8, 07 04:13:04

keep up the good work

4_Vader_4

Oct 8, 07 09:43:02

My EYES! The goggles do nothing!!!!!

Site looks good so far. Keep it up

Soooted89

Oct 8, 07 11:14:00

Bill, when you apply background color to your blog I had to highlight text to read it. Don't get fancy Bill, KISS.

Lou Pinella

Oct 8, 07 11:14:31

horrible font, but good post.

gambler2k4

Oct 8, 07 12:59:01

Is the background color showing up in the actual blog? For me it just shows up in the preview, but when I click on the blog it shows a white background.

Zimba

Oct 11, 07 10:30:29

Zimba, one thing that has always really annoyed me is that the video titles themselves [once downloaded] have seemingly random and inconsistent names. An easy fix would just be to go through them and rename them in a format like "Pro Name - Stakes - Game - Date." This really wouldnt take too long and is something that would definitely make the site feel much more professional, because, as is, the random titles make it feel as though they were just haphazardly thrown together.

andyakb