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If you're not receiving emails from this site at all or on time, read this..

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:20:32 -0400

For some reason, our automated emails (both when registering and any you've opted-in to receive for alerts) are not getting to every intended recipient. This definitely seems to be affecting people whose email address ends with @yahoo.com, ...

Launched New Play All and Your Rank Pages

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:45:37 -0400

You'll find some changes to the site today - the old Overview/Command page is gone (well, it's not gone, you can still get to it at http://www.fourdown.org/fw_command.cfm if you still want to use it) and it has been replaced by two new pages. The...

Removal of ECW

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:24:26 -0400

I haven't done it yet but over the next week, I'll be making sure ECW doesn't appear as a choice for TV ratings and things like that. I'll also make sure NXT gets added so you can rate that show. As far as ECW talents moving to new brand...

PPV Comments Enhanced

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:36:52 -0400

On the PPV prediction game pages, you can now enter as many comments as you'd like. Before, you could only enter one, and just update it as you wanted. I wanted to make it more like blog comments, so this was the first step. I will ...

Recent Changes to the Site

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:07:07 -0400

If you're logged in, you've probably noticed some differences. Not going to write a lot explaining them, but this is what was done: The right-hand side of the site again displays the recent comments underneath the ads below the recent pos...

New Feature for Bloggers at the Site

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:29:36 -0400

Since I removed the part of the right-side of the site that listed the newest comments - which I know at least for me, I used a lot to check to see if any of my blogs had new comments (even though there is that New Comments link on the left-nav of th...

Changes to the Recent Blogs on Right Side of Site

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:23:06 -0400

I made a minor change to the way blogs display on the right side of the site. Now the latest 30 blog posts will show (broken up in the middle by an ad - which don't neglect if you enjoy the site please :) and the recent comments are not display...

Site Updates Coming Soon - Site Revamp, Roundtable, User Polls, and New Fantasy Game

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:36:20 -0400

Okay, all of the changes I've been working on lately are getting closer to reality. Here's a list of everything coming - Site Revamp: Hopefully what I'm doing will make the site a lot easier to use and navigate. This is priority #1 ...

Improved Random Pick - No Contest Never Selected!

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:29:06 -0400

By popular request!

I updated the Random Pick on PPV games - it will never auto-select No Contest in either the winner or finish select boxes.

Should make it a more useful feature - I know I use it occasionally for TNA!

Mail Server Issues - Sorry if you gotz more than 1 email!

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:34:26 -0400

Had some mail server issues this week. I think it's all resolved now, but I had to send the No Surrender PPV update and the 4-UP End of Week reminder twice today. If you got it more than once (probably only affected about 400 of you in to...

4-UP: Better Roster Rollovers Now

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:42:49 -0400

I just updated 4-UP so that your previous week's roster will be pre-selected for you when you are making your picks for the first time each week. I got a lot of emails last season with people wondering why their previous week's roster hadn't rolle...

Updates for Blog Entries with Spoilers

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:06:05 -0400

It hadn't really come up before where people wanted to post about spoilers in a blog here, but now that there are so many people posting blogs, it was inevitable. So I made a few updates to the blog entry and blog view pages. Now, instea...

Bug Fix: Leagues Page

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:32:18 -0400

Apparently I didn't do enough testing when I switched the site over to season 6, and the private leagues page (using the Leagues link on the left - if you belong to a league) was breaking.

It's fixed now. Sorry about that!

Change in Plans, New Wrestling History Database Coming

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:16:34 -0400

I had mentioned before I wanted to add an MMA side to the site, where you could predict MMA fights and get ranked similarly to how you do right now for wrestling. However, I've decided a project like that would really deserve a completely separ...

Even More New Features - Blog Entry Listings

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:36:27 -0400

Added a few new features last night - First, there are two new links on the left. Full Site Blog and Full Dev Blog. They're just complete listings of every blog post in those two categories. But then I took that and added the same t...

More New Site Features - Turn On/Off Rank Box at Top, More Profile Features, etc.

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:12:00 -0400

I made a lot of small changes to the site over the weekend, but hadn't gotten around to letting everyone know about them. First up, I added your league information to that rank box that appears at the top of every page (note: if you aren't a regis...

Massive Speed Increase for the Site

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:50:56 -0400

I made some changes and the site seems to be about 10x faster for me now. Anyone else notice that it's faster? Going to work on some more updates over the weekend to make it even faster, too. Now we're playing with power.. SUPER pow...

New Features - Change Email, Send Message to Your League

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:28:20 -0400

Added a few new features to the site tonight. First up, you can now change your email address. Click Settings in the top-right to modify account settings, and you'll find it in there. You have to enter your current password when changi...

New Twitter Pages, ColdFusion function for Twitter

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:45:00 -0400

Added 3 new Twitter pages on the site - Users' Twitters - follow all the players here at fourdown who have entered their Twitter username into their profile. Want your feed displayed on this page? Click the profile button in the top-right of the...

Site Moved to New Server

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:27:26 -0400

The site was moved onto a new server today.

If you notice any differences, please let me know! If anything isn't working, or if the site seems faster, I'd like to hear both.

More New Facebook Features - Extended Privacy and More

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:06:17 -0400

Going crazy tonight with the Facebook application enhancements - You can now choose to hide your name, profile photo, and link to your profile from other Facebook users who are using the application. You can find this new setting in your acc...

New Facebook Feature - See How Your Friends Picked PPVs

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:37:12 -0400

Since I've been doing work today on the Facebook application, I guess I got a little caught up thinking about ways to improve it. Now, if you're using the Facebook application, and you have friends in Facebook who also use the application, you can...

Major Site Change for Facebook Application

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:50:19 -0400

Last night I made a major change to the way the site works. Previously, the website and the Facebook application both completely ran off the same codebase. This was really cool to do, but there were plenty of nasty tricks involved - since th...

More Twitter Integration - Add Your Twitter Feed to Profile; Official Wrestler Twitters

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:06:00 -0400

You can now enter your Twitter username on your profile editor. If you do this, your Twitter feed will appear on your profile page. To see what it looks like, you can check out my profile page. I've also started adding wrestler Twitter...

Small Updates to 4-UP Fantasy Wrestling Interface, Big Updates to Wrestler Pages, and More

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:53:43 -0400

Worked on the site for a good 5 hours tonight. Scored the past week of 4-UP Fantasy Wrestling to kick things off. So now you can see your rankings for the 4th game week. Thanks as always to all the 4-UP admins helping out with t...

Email Alerts for 4-UP Fantasy Wrestling are Live

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:47:09 -0400

Just finished getting the email alert system set up for the 4-UP Fantasy Wrestling game. You can sign up to be notified when a game week is starting (every Sunday), for reminders when the game week is coming to a close (every Friday), and to be no...

New Features: Leave Comments on Users and Leagues; Sign up for 4-UP Email Alerts

Sat, 30 May 2009 03:01:44 -0400

Had a little fun tonight making some upgrades to the site! First up, I copied over the new commenting module (which was previously only enabled on PPVs and wrestlers) to two new sections of the site - Users and Leagues! You can now leave com...

Tons of Changes for 4-UP Fantasy Wrestling Game Launched

Wed, 27 May 2009 18:51:12 -0400

Lots and lots of changes on the site today. First up, I noticed last night that I forgot to calculate the league averages for 4-UP. So I wrote those scripts, then re-ran the scoring from last night. Now, for the changes you'll see ...

More New Site Features Planned

Thu, 07 May 2009 20:43:00 -0400

Posting this kinda so I don't forget about all these things I need to do.. Obviously gotta make sure everything is in perfect shape in 4-UP for the kick-off week.. though I think most of it is pretty sound. At some point I'll need to make wa...

More Changes to the Site

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:54:12 -0400

Since I've been in all weekend, I was able to get a lot of stuff done for the site. First off, the fantasy game is extremely close to being done. I plan on wrapping everything up today and over the week, and then open it up next weekend.&nbs...

4-UP Fantasy Sports Entertainment Game Screenshots & Info

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:36:00 -0400

I got two teeth yanked at the dentist today, so I'm gonna be working pretty much all weekend on 4-UP, the fantasy sports entertainment game that I'm hoping to launch in a week or so. Figured I'd go ahead and post up a couple of new screenshots so ...

Two New Features on the Site for Leagues

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:14:12 -0400

So if you've ever seen the drop-down on the "command" page that says something like "Want to post data from the site elsewhere in either HTML, BBCode, or plain-text?" - I've now added two new options in the drop-down. They are ...

4-UP - Fantasy Sports Entertainment Game - Will WWE Superstars be included?

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:39:08 -0400

Well, hey, this one's actually just a question to all of you! Do you want WWE Superstars on WGN to be included? I'm leaning towards NOT including it - primarily because a lot of people don't even get the channel (myself included, as far as ...

Site Updates; Fantasy Game, etc.

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:27:00 -0400

Just got done moving into my new apartment, so the next few weekends I'll be able to focus completely on the fantasy sports entertainment game. I've got a basic interface complete now for picking your rosters. It is set up to do 2 wee...

Posting YouTube Videos in Blogs

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:50:34 -0400

Since kaihtafc has posted a few blogs with links to YouTube videos, I figured it'd be fun to quickly write a script that will automatically embed those videos right under the blog post. So if anyone else wants to post YouTube videos, all you have ...

4-Down Fantasy: Update for 3/20

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:31:00 -0400

I had posted some of my ideas and progress over on the two biggest leagues' forums, and I think I'm pretty settled on how this game is going to work from the player's perspective. (you thought I really planned this out?!) Here were my initia...

Never Lose Your Predictions Again!

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:08:00 -0400

I just finished building a script that I'll run immediately before scoring every PPV that determines if you currently have no locked-in predictions, but previously entered predictions and cleared them without re-submitting. If it finds anyone t...

4-Down Fantasy: Phase 2 Update

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:02:00 -0400

I have the majority of the backend scripts completed now - I finished up the one that totals all wrestler scores and stores them per show and total for the week. I've started on the next script, which will factor together some "extra&q...

4-Down Fantasy: Phase 2

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:13:53 -0400

I've completed phase 1, which was the interface for recording all of the data per TV show/PPV each week. I did change a few things up from what I described in the last post about it. The main things, points-wise, that changed were:&nb...

New Random Pick Button on PPV Games

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:45:08 -0400

I just built this for fun since I think it might up the participation rate on TNA PPV prediction games. :) At the bottom of each PPV prediction game page, next to the button to submit your predictions, is a new button called "Random Pick"...

4-Down Fantasy: Phase 1

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:51:00 -0400

Phase 1 of the 4-Down Fantasy game is getting all of the interfaces done for entering the data for each TV show each week. It is set up so that I can give specific users access to enter the data for a particular show - whether it's Raw, Smackdo...

Ranking Issue - Working on it

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:30:54 -0400

Against All Odds has been scored and ranked properly, but I'm having a little trouble running the season rankings. An email will go out when I get that fixed (if you opted in for those emails). Hopefully it won't take too long - I'll ...

Problem with League Admin Participation Monitor Fixed

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:58:57 -0400

I guess no one had noticed, but the participation monitor wasn't showing the correct users. :) It is now, and I've also changed it to a textbox at TWOKam's suggestion. He's the admin of Talk Wrestling Online (website). That should make...

Send in Your Shout-Out Now! And a quick WWE Fantasy Game update.

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:43:31 -0400

I just added a new Shout-Out field to your Profile Editor. Basically, if you win a shout-out prize on any PPV, this text will be sent in if we don't hear otherwise from you. This way, if you're not going to be around the few days after you'v...

Help Us Out!

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:09:00 -0400

If you enjoy participating in all of the prediction games we run here, it'd be most appreciated if you want to help spread the word. Sure, it'll reduce your chances of winning by getting more players, but a win against millions is worth more th...

More Updates, Mainly for League Administrators, Some Small UI Improvements for All Users

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:01:46 -0400

First off, the improvements for all users are in various places. The league listing page now shows the total score ranking in addition to the new average score ranking. The public league page now shows both league rankings. When vie...

New Average Scores per League, per PPV, Many Other New Features

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:17:00 -0400

I've added quite a bit to the site tonight. First and foremost, leagues are ranked by total earned points (counting only the top 15 players as is the rule here) and now by average points per player. This is done both at the PPV level and on ...

Google Custom Search with New Benefit for League Owners

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:43:45 -0400

You'll see I added a Google Custom Search to the site, right there in the top-right section. First and foremost, this searches everything on the site - prediction games, questions, users, leagues, and all the blog entries. If you're looki...

Help Section, Info for League Admins

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:14:00 -0400

Hey, I got some stuff done today for the site! I've been so busy lately I was feeling like I was neglecting the site, so I made sure to dedicate some time this weekend to it. First up, for league administrators, just to get it out of the way...

Facebook App Live

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:03:00 -0400

So the Facebook app is now out of developer mode. If you're a Facebook user and want to check it out, it can be accessed (when you're logged in at Facebook) at http://apps.facebook.com/fourdown. If you've already got an account here, you can...