Pat Donovan Timeslips Application Pat Donovan Timeslips Application en Copyright 2009-2010 Pat Donovan Southcoastsbs.com 2012-02-04 15:40:01 Patrick Donovan Patrick Donovan //if ($debugging==1 ) // fwrite($handle,"site:$site:craigPostID:$craigPostID:bapID:$bapID\n"); // // try to get record first // <![CDATA[ downtown boston pads conversion. SInce there's a header, and there's TONS of ads our agents put up, there was a need to get this up and running while I waited for network access working with john for ssh/tunneling to get up and running when my IP changes from time 2 time. vpn connection; Run to BCC just to work;]]> 2009-12-07 <![CDATA[ back to the adutils rewrite. Not a big one, but the craig price does not show up if the only change is on a BA post]]> 2009-12-08 <![CDATA[ Walked 100 miles today Been a long time]]> 2009-12-09 <![CDATA[ Debugging picture flop/fiasco. Polly S, might have cracked the case for me]]> 2009-12-10 <![CDATA[ Rewriting the ba side to go through ALL of the elements in an update, then trap all of the values that pertain to date availability and fees, so our new differenttial will now be price,date availability and fee changes, instead of just price change]]> 2009-12-10 <![CDATA[ adding spell checking alll day to admaker for title, two of them and how does this affect current functionality? Right now spelling is assumed for the richdescription box only and the application assumes this]]> 2009-12-10 <![CDATA[ back to the adutils rewrite. Not a big one, but the craig price does not show up if the only change is on a BA post]]> 2009-12-10 <![CDATA[ Don't remember, but did something for a few hours Saturday Night]]> 2009-12-12 <![CDATA[ More framinghampads madness. Trying to get 6 months of work into 1week does't work.Also, Demtrios my dear, you don't build web sites form design grahics. Duh. We don't have featured videos or maps yet or mbta yet, so assuming we do, and can just "plug it in" is rediculous. ]]> 2009-12-14 <![CDATA[ looking what it will take to release droid this week;]]> 2009-12-14 <![CDATA[ Many emails of course;]]> 2009-12-14 <![CDATA[ google map in the am]]> 2009-12-15 <![CDATA[ ON SITE testing. FOund speller does NOT pickup title of craig misspellings it appears]]> 2009-12-15 <![CDATA[ ba pics not showing up. Wazzup with that?]]> 2009-12-16 <![CDATA[ pandion bullying issues]]> 2009-12-16 <![CDATA[ map uploading torture...]]> 2009-12-17 <![CDATA[ Early am. Creating mutlipart forms to be used to upload our pictures the admaker creates. stuffing these newly created maps into our templates and making sure references don't already exist for this]]> 2009-12-18 <![CDATA[ closing the picture upload so I can actually give something to Peter for testing; Craigslist is giving me a message about too many characters when I try to post with a map picture]]> 2009-12-18 <![CDATA[ ASP.NET projects for reviewing. Forgot some basics of asp.net and this is a review axecercise so I can move forward with the RESMET project. Probably should change gears and try it as a web application ]]> 2009-12-20 <![CDATA[ sNOW campaign madness throughout day. Email torture to slow down productivity. Uploading map re-approach if that's a word. There will now be a dialog that pops up to create our image and at the the same time uploads the picture. Since craigslist won't alllow google maps on their site we must create pictures for them. The admaker solves all these problems by creating the picture, then uploading the pic to our servers so they can be referenced in our ads on craigslist!]]> 2009-12-21 <![CDATA[ Looking and revisiting 2.0 api for android to run and work on DROID]]> 2009-12-22 <![CDATA[ On site. Working on new feature request. Adding something in the templates to show that there's a video tour. This helps make the template stand out.]]> 2009-12-22 <![CDATA[ am working. Moving all the map functionality into the main app from the test app. For anyone reading this, you should always have a small test app to do your code to save loads of time and speed up development.]]> 2009-12-23 <![CDATA[ Map picture box cleanup. Removing all of the references that were in there for the user. The user would be able to create the maps manuallly, but I realized this is not a good idea. Instead I removed code this code. I also removed references for swapping a pic for virtual tour notification. RIght now, VTs are underutilized and should be more prominent in our templates.]]> 2009-12-23 <![CDATA[ Creating upload forms for the adamker to be able to create images associated with each property with a static map picture. Craigslist needs a link to a picture or they will not display our maps.]]> 2009-12-24 <![CDATA[ More map testing for 1 template; Also testing of title spell checking. This was coming up for bostonapartments, which makes its own title. Changed method to take an argument to ignore if BA posting]]> 2009-12-24 <![CDATA[ bored and decided to fine tune some more phone app things. It's a known fact in software that the first 90% comes easy . The last 10% is very hard. Right now the phone clicking doesn' work, yet it should. Debugging why this is so and trying to fix of course]]> 2009-12-24 <![CDATA[ creating image from static map trick using php and imagefromjpeg GD library functions]]> 2009-12-25 <![CDATA[ luxurypads.net and bostonluxury apartment.com. We need to ensure that they are getting the correct results displayed for luxury. The old way, we would look at the description and find a keyword of "Luxury"]]> 2009-12-25 <![CDATA[ eclair and video support for droid 2.0 to play video]]> 2009-12-25 <![CDATA[ eclair and video support for droid 2.0 to play video]]> 2009-12-26 <![CDATA[ creating image from static map trick using php and imagefromjpeg GD library functions; COntinued. It looks like you can't do this. You need an actual file name, not a link resource to google's static map library. So this will not work. The way I'm doing it now, is I'm scraping the image so to speak using windows and the exact screen coordinates. I then upload the file to our server. What would have been easier is to do this on the server side, but this cannot be done after doing exhausting tricks;]]> 2009-12-27 <![CDATA[ looking into Eben saying ads are falling off. also, looking into or starting mod that Demetrios agreed to (you should not agree to all mods D) that Sang wanted which would make our text left or center aligned in the description, as an option for the user]]> 2009-12-28 <![CDATA[ toolbar mods. Making different button states that will allow the user to see which state is depressed down, then save these as a setting for the user and now add yet another of the 347 variables to track and clear every time the user moves to another property. Then apply these to various template versions...Ugh...]]> 2009-12-28 <![CDATA[ Debuggin Eben's ads falling off. Disappearing. I now for months have a posted archive database. This tracks any new posts per user. In the admaker debugger, I'm creating hoooks to query this so we can see faster what an agent is talking about, since I can't ever understand them because of their non techical jargon....]]> 2009-12-29 <![CDATA[ took 3 hours to debug eben's issue. I mean it!!!!Really! However, good techniques learned to use in the future. I was investigating Eben's listing that aren't on the posted report. These NEVER made it to the post archives database. Hmm....]]> 2009-12-29 <![CDATA[ Aligning graphic to notify web users of whether we have a virtual tour or not. Setting variables throughout code. Now yet another var to clear, reset and check for it's value each and every time we hit the left pane and for each template too.]]> 2009-12-30 <![CDATA[ southend apartments web results 2.0; also, mls web site updating AND looking into capecodpads listings yet again]]> 2009-12-30 <![CDATA[ bostonap converstation, sleuthing. Logging into all the accounts. Puttig in reactivatei]]> 2009-12-30 <![CDATA[ bostonapartments' deactivate/activate more tuning; Looking into other issues regarding throttling on BA and how we can let users know when we're close to the limit. 1475 is Dangerously close to 1500 limit. Do we delete and why? Maybe they're all legit or mabye some are dups?]]> 2009-12-31 <![CDATA[ CHANGING GEARS AND STOPPING THE ADMAKER CODE RELEASE. I now will stop what I'm doing, and change gears and look into the bus routes again.]]> 2010-01-01 <![CDATA[ MORE mbta madness for trip planning. Putting some of this functionality in the admaker so a user can cut and paste the text into the description field]]> 2010-01-02 <![CDATA[ on site all day, meetings and tracking down dave h and other not showing the templates. Turns out, it's due to the default value in the database of template2.htm does not match the new version of the admaker, which tacks on map.htm. Long time to debug this one]]> 2010-01-06 <![CDATA[ on site again today. Debugging one of sang's findings. Again, due to duplicate RESMET ID bullcrap]]> 2010-01-07 <![CDATA[ changing picture count to only fetch once per application instance]]> 2010-01-08 <![CDATA[ changing picture count to only fetch once per application instance; chasing down a crash that sang is seeing, but don't]]> 2010-01-08 <![CDATA[ looking into patrickb not being able to delete ads;Eben says admaker too slow. Disabling proxies to see if this helps somewhat; Testing with sang and back and forth and back and forth. Saturday night too! She charge quadruple but don't]]> 2010-01-09 <![CDATA[ still chasing down the crash that sang sees, but not I]]> 2010-01-09 <![CDATA[ rebuilding and taking out all references in the admaker for video counts and picture counts. Working back and forth with sang with details like this. Still looking for the crash. Also, craigslist posting as non logged in user to alleviate craig and the 20 minutes busy crap we deal with]]> 2010-01-10 <![CDATA[ FINALLY figuring out where crash is. It is due to the map only timing out and taking too long to load pictures from google. Finally. Also removed light bulb being on always because I removed picture counts and video counts.]]> 2010-01-12 <![CDATA[ squaring away the final piece for differenttial. Sang pointed out how there is no date search functionality. I ignored this on purpose and agents knew that they had to look for this. Since I now show this in the posted report when you highlight, the price change dialog box now becomes the price or date change dialog. New button to search for the date text as well]]> 2010-01-14 <![CDATA[ experimenting with different proxy ports scenarios when I try to implement this in next realease]]> 2010-01-15 <![CDATA[ lots of proxy research, and more research about multiple IPs and accounts. Proxy list is really hard to decipher, because there are so many fly by nitghts.. Some won't allow you to do it at low levels. This actually could work in the admaker, this model, but it requires more programming on my end.]]> 2010-01-17 <![CDATA[ admaker not being able to post today, MLK day]]> 2010-01-18 <![CDATA[ making one last tweak which would make the price/date craigslist dialog less confusing. Since it used to be only a price change dialog, and has now morphed into a price and available date dialog, we must programmatically tell them different things based on all possible scenarios]]> 2010-01-18 <![CDATA[ On reposts, captcha not working if a user types in the wrong captcha codes]]> 2010-01-18 <![CDATA[ confirmed nooam reported bug of captcha codes typed in wrong, and the admaker gags, or let us say, it doesn't close the dialog and do it's thing properly]]> 2010-01-18 <![CDATA[ remeprops and web site features. Taking them out again and putting back and see why some descriptions weren't working with features.]]> 2010-01-19 <![CDATA[ continuing looking into PROXY settings and disabling them. This DOES slow down things and once set, it sticks and must be removed for future instances of ]]> 2010-01-19 <![CDATA[ updating boston luxury apartment. This was never moved and had to be retrofitted with web2.0 results etc... Also, the rental pages and while I was in there removed stale links to yahoo etc...Admaker testing ON SITE. Found a bug that Sang or I never caught. It occured in only one scenario. We tested in every scenario except this one. Figures]]> 2010-01-20 <![CDATA[ adding tons of marketing descriptions so I can test the fuck out of this stuff even more. Eben claims posting in fee/nofee is off again]]> 2010-01-21 <![CDATA[ driving up to boston just to investigate a bug. I am getting no help from my help desk people (i guess they're busy) so just to understand how this is happening, I must drive up just to address one possible issue. Possible mind you. This is what takes most of my time. Looking into possible bugs. and sometimes bugs. Spending lots of time trying to translate what an agent like eben means, then trying to duplicate it.]]> 2010-01-21 <![CDATA[ while there found a bug noaam pointed out of the timer stops when we bringup the ba dialog from the right side. New posts it continues to count down when we go into BA but not reposts. He also pointed out a minor bug/flaw which confused him. The price dialog menu option isn't greyed out for craigslist if there isn't a price change.]]> 2010-01-21 <![CDATA[ worked on mbta bus routes. Realized that if you calculate the bus routes based on what time it is, you are screwed. If you run the app at midnight, how many buses are there? So we must calculate for wed at noon]]> 2010-01-21 <![CDATA[ continuing debugging no fees becoming fees]]> 2010-01-22 <![CDATA[ answering emails from ady, and shari; following up about what they want; Must change the reposting]]> 2010-01-23 <![CDATA[ Rewriting how reposts work when there is a price/date change. So the users don't have to go do this twice, the repost code changes now to check for price change. if there is a change, it will intelligently bring them to the price change dialog. ]]> 2010-01-25 <![CDATA[ on site stablizing code base;project scheduling and changes and what needs to be done]]> 2010-01-25 <![CDATA[ too much time on proxies. Back to stabilizing app]]> 2010-01-25 <![CDATA[ looking into MBTA rider tools appear to be broken on main web site of MBTA. Thinking it might by our IP address]]> 2010-01-25 <![CDATA[ 40 allegheny debugging pictures not showing up; Proxy server research; Fixing issue with ba posting, where if you post to craig, then to ba on the right side, the timer will stop ticking for 10 - 20 seconds; Preparing release]]> 2010-01-26 <![CDATA[ 40 allegheny debugging pictures not showing up; Proxy server research; Fixing issue with ba posting, where if you post to craig, then to ba on the right side, the timer will stop ticking for 10 - 20 seconds; Preparing release]]> 2010-01-26 <![CDATA[ Android back button went too far on slideshow]]> 2010-01-27 <![CDATA[ mega proxy research. Late late hours. Mega. Looking into the cost of a dedicated server and creating our own with multiple IP addresses]]> 2010-01-27 <![CDATA[ changed how the timer works and now it is broken. Sang found this issue]]> 2010-01-27 <![CDATA[ More proxy madness]]> 2010-01-27 <![CDATA[ servers busy and network resolutions with John Y. Setting up cron job for web stats; release candidate and fixing issues sang is finding. Going back and releasing fixes for him]]> 2010-01-29 <![CDATA[ emails and emails; time on new intern to possibly help wish some tasks]]> 2010-01-29 <![CDATA[ updating some zips in resmet;logging in as eben,ady, and sang to test new code as well as myself]]> 2010-01-29 <![CDATA[ more mbta again. The service nearby and rider tools isn't or wasn't working. It suddnely worked, my tool, when I clerred all my cookies. As an alternative, we can run a process once to populate this]]> 2010-01-30 <![CDATA[ phone calls, emails, web stats building; tackling new admaker template]]> 2010-01-30 <![CDATA[ adding new templates. Since there were bus routes, and we are far from doing this, then I had to struggle with removing this. It implied 2 table cells on one row. 1 for map, and the other for buses. Not happening today]]> 2010-01-31 <![CDATA[ continuing trying to *SNEAK* another template in here.]]> 2010-01-31 <![CDATA[ boston apartment full tackling. At a minimum, putting code to send an email to managers if they ever receive this message]]> 2010-02-01 <![CDATA[ all day on site with servers being busy bullshit;]]> 2010-02-02 <![CDATA[ creating prototype app to post to craigslist anon. Posting/exporting admaker sources to work with new app]]> 2010-02-02 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-03 <![CDATA[ googlebase api and uploading; Createing new feed. Familiarizing with requirements]]> 2010-02-05 <![CDATA[ googlebase api and uploading; Createing new feed. Familiarizing with requirements]]> 2010-02-06 <![CDATA[ added features, price and google namespace elements for our generic feed. This is passed in a location, and once perfected with cambridgepads, we can then create multiple accounts for each domain , then manually schedule an upload or shouild I say a consumption by google.]]> 2010-02-06 <![CDATA[ ripping out some admaker code to test theory of anon posting and seeing if I can post 1 ad every 2 minutes]]> 2010-02-07 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-08 <![CDATA[ while I'm on vacation (call it fishing), doing google base, researching diligently like a good software professional, other techniques that are different than the norm]]> 2010-02-09 <![CDATA[ eben looking into his issues]]> 2010-02-10 <![CDATA[ random phrases will minimize duplicate postings message]]> 2010-02-10 <![CDATA[ anroid publishing. Setup,paying $25.00 just to set it up, then tweaking the app signature a bit. Setup a small,dummy web site. Trying to remove a technical name in the app when you download. Should look friendly]]> 2010-02-10 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-10 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-10 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-10 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-10 <![CDATA[ doing a release that fixes fee/nofee issue AND ba active/deactivate]]> 2010-02-12 <![CDATA[ looking into eben's miseries. Turns out, he's updating the data on craigslist, then expecting it to magically synchronize.]]> 2010-02-13 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-14 <![CDATA[ google base updating to show multiple images; Also, looking into price change now doesn't ever find the price search. TEst and confirm, if so, fix and figure out]]> 2010-02-15 <![CDATA[ making FEE changes to feed, and binding data controls in the web edit dialog to marry 2 radio buttons to the fee]]> 2010-02-15 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-16 <![CDATA[ continuing google base data feed fighting;android tweaking(can't help this. Want it to purrr..)]]> 2010-02-17 <![CDATA[ larger templates begin. Crashing during testing because images were removed from original ones; Some text backgrounds changed to all dark, so 1st default template needs to be tweaked to display bottom information]]> 2010-02-17 <![CDATA[ making the last 3 templates work 9,10, and 11 before release]]> 2010-02-18 <![CDATA[ changing proxy servers to 15. Testing to ensure that this doesn't break anything. Shouldn't but you never know; Preparing the last of the mods to the templates for release today]]> 2010-02-19 <![CDATA[ Using j2ee and java servlets to solve our proxy server issues. Since we have WAY too many, and our old algorithm will not suffice, we need to tackle this differently boys and girls. We need to have a shared variable between all instances of the admaker, whether this is a web app or not. This is how we can never have the same proxies being used at the same time. The idea is to never have this happen, so user ady comes in and gets proxy 7044, the next user gets proxy 7023 (we wan random) but never the same two in a row for craigslist. In order to make this happen, we need thread safe variables being shared across multiple processes. Mysql and php cannot achieve this truly. It can with 90% accuracy, with some weenie/klugy mysql timestamp technique. Give me a break. This is why you use enterprise technologies. This solves our problem. The admaker instead of reading from a list, will call this servlet, with a shared, syncrhonized variables that track which was the last proxy being used. This is thread safe, so no two processes will ever get the same proxy port.]]> 2010-02-22 <![CDATA[ winstone servlet container wasn't working due to some configuration issue. Switched to jetty]]> 2010-02-23 <![CDATA[ Porting to patweb (johny's NO GO). Will keep on outside server for now. Will also make it flip back to old technique IF something goes wrong...]]> 2010-02-23 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-24 <![CDATA[ trying to get release out the freakin door... no one to test for me. Woe is me...trapping bug and debugging bug of when the app starts up, on some templates, the templates suddenly don't work. ONe has to switch templates once, and from there on it work; Fixing some other tempalte issues shari pointed out and see if I can make this work in the new release]]> 2010-02-25 <![CDATA[ creating UI to remove proxies as we see fit]]> 2010-02-25 <![CDATA[ creating a whole interface to add and remove proxies in the admaker/debugger; Tomorrow, will change servlet to read from this new feed]]> 2010-02-25 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-26 <![CDATA[ yet another task I"m asked to do. Demetrios asks and reminds me of a report he used to receive that showed how many listings were created outside the admaker. This is why too many developers hurts. THis was broken, like many things when I gave up my godaddy server. Now you know why I want control. SO things can work. This code used to work on the godaddy server but does not any longer. I know have to investigate. Also have to read 2,000 emails and respons to all of them while trying to code]]> 2010-02-26 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-02-27 <![CDATA[ Saturday night, yes saturday night. publishing the android app is more than I bargained for. YOu need a web site to point to, screenshots which had to be done in the emulator, and fill out all kinds of shit. Singup for a developer api, with your own key..Ugh]]> 2010-02-27 <![CDATA[ Finishing touches on release yet again. Thursday Mark requested I make the admaker proxy add/removal to work. Created that application changes thursday I believe, but now that this list is now working, all of the pieces are now in place. THe application server that serves up these proxies has to be told when there's a new list. To re-read it's current list so the java servlet now has coded added to re-read from our database list of proxies. This can be pushed manually,or by the admaker debugger tool. The admaker debugger tool does the same thing. It simply calls a URL, of the java servlet and it reads our list. The next time an agent posts to craigslist, it will be completely transparent to the user]]> 2010-02-28 <![CDATA[ compare report setup and running and testing. Not trivial, like EVERYONE thinks any task is. Computer science tasks take longer than admin/clerk tasks]]> 2010-03-01 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-03-02 <![CDATA[ more madness; Ad takedown now fails because I didn't update the new style of proxy objects; Also, rewriting completely, the make new and the activate / deactivate to take into account DUPLICATES]]> 2010-03-02 <![CDATA[ early am doing duplicates on BA yet again. Preping for release today; On site doing release]]> 2010-03-03 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-03-03 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-03-05 <![CDATA[ adding posted report feed to admaker mobile app]]> 2010-03-08 <![CDATA[ where do I start today...BA make new and all other functionality is broken; Eben wants me to look into the login not being filled in any longer. So I obliged, which I shouldn't. Fixed BA not working at times for duplicates and non duplicates;]]> 2010-03-08 <![CDATA[ Seeing how craig has an issue with us logging out, then loggin in before every post, and that is in there due to the fact that people move from machine to machine I'm doing it differently. I created a class that does just one thing. It logs out. This will be done for the application startup to take care of a previous user being logged in. It happens once and when users now post on craigslist, it will not try to logout first. Hindsight is 20/20]]> 2010-03-09 <![CDATA[ on site with meetings; Lookin into the scam thingie/captcha coming up; back to where I was 2 weeks ago with the bus routes. Revamp up on what I did.]]> 2010-03-10 <![CDATA[ on site with meetings; Lookin into the scam thingie/captcha coming up; back to where I was 2 weeks ago with the bus routes. Revamp up on what I did.]]> 2010-03-10 <![CDATA[ experimenting with the login mechanism and trying a different approach so agents won't have to type in their email address]]> 2010-03-11 <![CDATA[ walkscore API revisiting. Shouldnt and why I get mad for asking me to look into things. I am too curious and I spend hours on things when I should be focused on other areas. The walkscore APi with more requests are useless for us. We are not going to be able to just steal their datat this way. They are not morons. THe API only gives you the walk score. You must put it on an html /php live html page and it must link back to their site.]]> 2010-03-11 <![CDATA[ numerous things all over the place. THink I have a fix for the captcha re-entering just to start postings. It's not a fix, it's more like I at least fill in their credentials; Looking into adys ads not reposting and based on testing 5 of his ads, it appears to be a network latency issue; Ady pointed out that there is a bug in the ad takedown, where it doesn' t close down the dialog box. Looking into this and hopefully fixing]]> 2010-03-12 <![CDATA[ mobile admaker settings. I'm so close to at least making this a read only app. So spending time for app when starting up to prompt for resmetusername and craigslist email address]]> 2010-03-14 <![CDATA[ 15TH:VIDEO SUPPPORT FOR OTHER TEMPLATES]]> 2010-03-15 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-03-15 <![CDATA[ on site doing a release that will support many video templates working; Don wright claims that hestia always shows the default 4 bed etc... Releasing and testing to address username/password so user's don't have to fill in their password and name at the very least]]> 2010-03-16 <![CDATA[ tons of video support for all tempaltes. ONly two left. Lots of alignment and rework; Completing the proxy manager app on android so John who doesn't use a GUI can use the phone to swap out proxies. This comes with a password/activation on startup. He can add/remove and disable right from android. This is critical in situations where no one is near a computer]]> 2010-03-17 <![CDATA[ 10 trillion admin things. See? Easy to tackle many tasks if they're not software coding tasks. Shut off spider;sent content to Demetrios; We had network issues with the admaker and the underlying network;After getting on a 3way conference, found out it's just lots of people hitting the server at the same time. We need to upgrade the memory to 1gb; Phone calls with D; many emails; Bug testing from Eric Fritz;Found a few issues in one of the templates; Redoing and fixing that code; Reading document from ady about chat proposal spark vs. pandion;Finding last year's march content;]]> 2010-03-22 <![CDATA[ eben time: logged in as 4 different users, kimle, fritz, patrickb and myself. In every case, there is no such claim that the posted report suddenly picks the wrong ad. This can only happen if you going rogue. If you go rogue, then IDs will be crossed. Someone please explain this to Eben. I need to spend time on code, not chasing ghosts]]> 2010-03-23 <![CDATA[ getting ideas to partition off work for ady;found my bug for map/bus tools. I now can query google successfullyf for lat and longitude coordinates based on an address]]> 2010-03-24 <![CDATA[ on top of bus routes ,document, ady management, adding fenwaypads to a list of webstats]]> 2010-03-24 <![CDATA[ More bus routes. Trying to go the extra mile and seeing how the geocoding apis can help us find points of interests with parks, and airports and other things like walkscore does. ]]> 2010-03-25 <![CDATA[ installing tools to syncrhonize server time. Gets off from time to time]]> 2010-03-25 <![CDATA[ Some of the troops are getting error messages that the fields cannot be displayed while posting to craigslist; Other do not see this; Looking into ady claim of wrong ads going up for a property; This is high priority]]> 2010-03-25 <![CDATA[ looking into hidden ads issue for mike gallo. His hidden ads dont' work for no apparent reason. Works for me and others. Must look into this]]> 2010-03-25 <![CDATA[ creating new scripts for the web server stats for fenway Creating and automating ALL of this to run at once on the last day of the month]]> 2010-03-26 <![CDATA[ Found issue on hidden ads. It had to do with a bug in RESMET where the unit field is allowed to have a hex value 0x0B or tab. I now added code to workaround this bug. Small resmet bug, but a bug nonetheless. This was tricky to find.]]> 2010-03-26 <![CDATA[ getting a (504)gateway timeout error. Notifed JohnY. Siwtching gears now and getting back to bus routes , which is not admaker code yet]]> 2010-03-26 <![CDATA[ deleting and removing viruses by hand from many,many,sites.]]> 2010-03-26 <![CDATA[ configuring server for date timezone once and for with tzselect manually changing the date and installing ntpdate]]> 2010-03-27 <![CDATA[ redoing all of craigslist shit. REpost and price change too. Pain in the #*$* ass]]> 2010-03-27 <![CDATA[ south shore pads changed this to work completely difrerent form the other srcipts. THe other scripts take one argument. The south shore must be a renegate code base to take in braintree,quincy, hanover, etc...]]> 2010-03-28 <![CDATA[ emails. ad;y feed rewrite for oodle; looking into lsst week possible admaker bug issues and see if I can duplicate. If so, will fix]]> 2010-03-29 <![CDATA[ virus on my web sites issue is wreaking havoc with admaker]]> 2010-03-29 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-03-29 <![CDATA[ more work than you can possibly imagine;While debugging and trying to play cat and mouse with craigslist yet again chaning forms, getting zip aware tool to work. It's all in th zip. This is a huge resmet flaw. NO property should be input without a zip. Never. Bad idea. This was missed by Demetrios, yuan and anyone else responsible for the requirements. this is not RESMET programmer's fault. They can implement this easy. all of the web2.0 things require address with a valid zip to work. So I will help the agents get map graphics AND try to guess the zip for them. After the zip, everything will work and bus routes too!]]> 2010-04-02 <![CDATA[ too many to mention. Really. Spent enough time coding and being tortured by unprofessional emails]]> 2010-04-05 <![CDATA[ adding send to friend code to android app. 72 installs so far]]> 2010-04-06 <![CDATA[ on site and changing gears; 1st fire, web site report. 2nd fire sang point out that the allston/brighton listing can sometimes be in allston, and sometimes in brighton. I cannot arbirarily guess this, so the only thing I can do is create yet another if statement where if I see both, they can choose brighton or allston]]> 2010-04-06 <![CDATA[ recompiling and setting up multiple processes "JUST", just mind you, to do a list of domains. This is unecessary. We should just show a static report of all We should just have a static file to do this. Saves 2-5 days of programming. Demetrios, you wasted time by nitpicking. We are behind because of these decisions. This is low priority. Pick your battles, save money and time. ]]> 2010-04-07 <![CDATA[ mission hill IP allowance. Not configurable because not safe]]> 2010-04-09 <![CDATA[ spending an hour going through the web site list, and removing dead entries]]> 2010-04-10 <![CDATA[ fixing symphonyapartments.com]]> 2010-04-10 <![CDATA[ wordpress broken site TLC, website list TLC]]> 2010-04-11 <![CDATA[ yet another fire for the week. Can't develop NEW software while putting out fires. Schedule moves. Map on craigslist fire shows no rectangle for cambridge pads. Extra time now taken away from moving forward. Just letting you know how software works. This is my expertise]]> 2010-04-11 <![CDATA[ broke android app for a moment. Doh! Fixing]]> 2010-04-12 <![CDATA[ broke android app for a moment. Doh! Fixing]]> 2010-04-12 <![CDATA[ did a quick peek on picture uploading in BA. Since Demetrios thinks this clever technique of pushing someone, and making them feel inadequate is the way to motivate people. Yeah, I took this course in collge too and know this technique. Herman HEsse too. COnclusion is it will take a few days, as I originally thought it would]]> 2010-04-12 <![CDATA[ master blaster creating ad part (this is only 1 portion of this. ONE). Coding map support and amenities support. Bus routes is done, and many other things too. Also, neighborhood section adding too. ]]> 2010-04-12 <![CDATA[ allstonamrealestate, bostoncorporaterelocation fixing. Painful.]]> 2010-04-12 <![CDATA[ master blaster map part and anon posting. Fee tells me that I must have an account to post in the fee section. Yet using firefox, I get no such message. Investigating..]]> 2010-04-14 <![CDATA[ eben debugging of price change 'anamolies' once again. To repeat, others don't have problems. Logged in as Kelly and reposted 5 no problem. Eben, all off.]]> 2010-04-14 <![CDATA[ setting up a fallback machine for proxy manager. By default, if the proxymanger service shits the bed(pardon my french), it reverts to a default proxy clproxy.bostonpads.com:7001 Right now this doen't work, but john will fix this. This got me thinking because the servers busy message would happen a lot with this technique. So I build another machine at my home, actually just a live CD and the users are using this now. This means everything is the way it should be. This is a better plan B for disaster recovery]]> 2010-04-14 <![CDATA[ chasing down minor bug. Sometimes, the price change isn't shown on the menu. It's shown on the lightbulb, but sometimes it's not on the menu(this is in green). This is harmless, but a little confusing because if there is a BA price change, then the user is prompted to "FORCE" a price change/repost instead of just a repost. So this is a 2 for 1 deal and if they choose no, it's two steps:1 to repost and another step, again, to do the price change. The side effect is that they have to be more intelligent with the software.]]> 2010-04-14 <![CDATA[ BA PICS new upload starting again. Since I spent a lot of time this week doing everything but the master blaster, back to a smaller goal which is to do the ba pic uploading.]]> 2010-04-15 <![CDATA[ BA SET AS THUMBNAIL. CMON YO???]]> 2010-04-16 <![CDATA[ adding map location services to android app; Finishing up the send to a friend using gmail. Issue with back button wasn't being trapped. Fixe that so it's not amateur city; backbay pads new version being released; Panic driven so change gears, which is just what a programmer needs. Helps him do quality work. Fixed all kinds of wrong things on the site. back button, no sales, going to wrong new search page and other crap]]> 2010-04-18 <![CDATA[ GETTING backbaypads to work. Sure, it's easy, squeez,fresh and breezy. SO I THOUGHT. I am Matt Cassel, and you have me work with amatuers. I love shari, but Rudi should lead her. this is a mess right now to work. Engineers have to lead web development. You are wasting valuable time. They pyramid is upside down]]> 2010-04-18 <![CDATA[ so much garbage code with those thumbnails crap (I said no. You ignored me). That IE throws a stack overflow at line:0 on some systems. This appears to be only IE. This is what you get when you ask for too much]]> 2010-04-19 <![CDATA[ making thumbnail selection working for BA. The last of the mohicans for this. Plan to release tonight if I get it working. got it working PM, now need to send to someone for testing. This makes uploading very fast now to BA and the troops will be thrilled with 1/4 the time it used to take;]]> 2010-04-19 <![CDATA[ improving fail safe mechanism if proxy manager goes down. A better idea i am implementing, is going back to the old way if it fails. Then restarting the service wont' be such an annoyance. This way, it always stays up so to speak to the users. It will only revert back to this method if it can' t reach the proxy manager service. Doing this now, because it's a two offensive approach. Going to release new version with BA pics, so get both done in one shot yo.]]> 2010-04-20 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-04-21 <![CDATA[ on site helping show adi the ropes big time of all the components;Creating a doc in the am to prepare for this; Meetings with eben, noaam too, all around warm and fuzzy around the office was very helpful this time. I explained to Doug Dias some things and many other small things were pointed out, like the title text truncating, and the price change is confusing; Back to ady, the goal is to teach him to do all of the web stuff as Istated in an email this week.]]> 2010-04-22 <![CDATA[ on site helping show adi the ropes big time of all the components;Creating a doc in the am to prepare for this; Meetings with eben, noaam too, all around warm and fuzzy around the office was very helpful this time. I explained to Doug Dias some things and many other small things were pointed out, like the title text truncating, and the price change is confusing; Back to ady, the goal is to teach him to do all of the web stuff as Istated in an email this week. Back to masterblaser. As weekly stated, anonyymous posting is the ticket, which implies no reposts and back on track to revers form engineering]]> 2010-04-22 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-04-22 <![CDATA[ WALKSCORE GRAPHIC BABY!!!!]]> 2010-04-26 <![CDATA[ WALKSCORE GRAPHIC BABY!!!! TAKING MY ORIGINAl code I wrote before google came out with a static map,a nd retro fitting it to use walkscore]]> 2010-04-26 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-04-26 <![CDATA[ master blaster continued; looking at analyzing old query from india programmers and seeing if i can salvage anything with this; Shari bbp updating continued; Still doesn't load in some browsers according to browsershots.org. Not good; Changing the way we publish with this site. It's a big mess now and can't work. Updating takes too long based on rushing and not understanding software. We can't waste money maintaining sites. It shouldn't cost this much time. Writing a low level app that will remove all of the renter's and loveaccess bullshit from the majority of the sites.]]> 2010-04-26 <![CDATA[ SEO madness everywhere]]> 2010-04-28 <![CDATA[ excited about android notoriaty. Finishing up newer version with: Send to a friend google maps sleeker looking options and walkscore baby right on the phone!]]> 2010-04-29 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-04-29 <![CDATA[ many things; Spider chaning; ady training; redoing tool to make sure that snow removal and the other main side business sites are there too. Now first look for it, if not found, put there.;Android version 2 continued with more walkscore things, google maps;]]> 2010-04-29 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-04-30 <![CDATA[ restoring files just to test the proxy switch. Tragic in case catastrophic failure, need to put out just a test version to ensure everyone doesn't crash. Pointing to separate directory just for shits and giggles as they say. If this works, can flip the switch]]> 2010-05-03 <![CDATA[ reinstalling proxy services to troubleshoot catpcha issues. Setup new proxy on home box and catpcha codes do come up. This means that JohnY proxies are not allowing new captcha URLS to work . this is proven beyond a doubt. Using no proxies, you get captcha using my proxy you get captcha using john proxies, you get zip,zilch, nada! Sorry John Boy]]> 2010-05-04 <![CDATA[ creating overview training document to initial camacho and ady]]> 2010-05-04 <![CDATA[ ]]> 2010-05-04 <![CDATA[ fixiing luxurypads.net old style results for some reason; Proxy and captch still not working. So instead of waiting for john, setup 2 proxies which might help a little]]> 2010-05-06 <![CDATA[ patrick B says badwords are not working. Looking into if this is possible, and what to do about it if it isn't working. Creating a new RESMET entry to test theory]]> 2010-05-10 <![CDATA[ looking into John brennan issue. Can't login some reason;Discussions with Demetrios about farmblaster; Continued proxy maintenance; Flipping switch and monitoring; Ady management on backbaypads and brooklinepads; Ad takedown discussions to take down ads on BA]]> 2010-05-10 <![CDATA[ on site; working with ady. Going over many things, like oodle and how to create 1 feed with a cap on say 1000 records, and how to divide this up amongst the top towns, southie,allston,backbay,brighton; REMEprops discussions and how to merge what rudy did , he did, into main sources; More: bostonapartment ad takedown design specs;]]> 2010-05-11 <![CDATA[ all night and all day burning the midnight oil FINALLY getting bus routes from the test app, which is a beast with this functionality into the admaker.]]> 2010-05-12 <![CDATA[ privacy policy setup. This is so as we update all of the sites, there's 1 copy of the privacy policy to include everywhere]]> 2010-05-13 <![CDATA[ hidden ad changes and mods. Adding two new columns and database fields; Updating web services to fetch these in the XML feed, and updating web services add/populate DB to add new fields]]> 2010-05-13 <![CDATA[ privacy policy things; More web publishiing for real estate jobs; natick pads SEO needs some TLC; scoping out competition for Lane issue with eben; What is he doing that will get other agents banned!]]> 2010-05-13 <![CDATA[ bostonpropertymanagement content again]]> 2010-05-14 <![CDATA[ updating renters insurance continued. Painful, but must be done!]]> 2010-05-14 <![CDATA[ bus routes in ADMAKER. In order to make master blaster work, this comes first. Struggling with how to make it as easy as possible for the troops. The automated worked before with map graphics because google gave us a web tool to elminate a confusing step. This is not the case here...]]> 2010-05-14 <![CDATA[ Natickpads.com fixing; SeO changes and submissions;XML sitemaps; Continued more of the same with bus routes;Adding zip code helper so troops will be guided as to how they will get zip code. It will ask to verify the zip code. Then they can review. They then manually press a button to create the routes; This part is yet to be done as what happens. What it WILL do is upload the data once, so this will not have to be done the next time an agent markets this property. The data, with latitude and longitudes will be there(for other considerations too) and the bus data text will be stored for later retrieval]]> 2010-05-14 <![CDATA[ walkscore integration,ALONG with bus routes. YOU cannot ask for these two things at once Demetrios. I will do this, since you are impatient as a lamb.]]> 2010-05-17 <![CDATA[ bostonparkingspaces; updating renters insurance on more sites; Continues with the MAJOR work, which is bus routes, and walk score on admaker craigslist;]]> 2010-05-19 <![CDATA[ proxy server stickiness issue; Maps.google.com needs to be added to the list of allowed IPs for the proxy servers. This is because once the IE web browser uses the proxy server, it stays throughout all web references. It does not remove. So it has to be allowed in the proxy server. Going to try to figure out how to make it unstick today. There has to be writing to the registry, so this won't work for guest accounts, which is why it hasn't been addressed]]> 2010-05-21 <![CDATA[ my torture. Notice that blank phone numbers are in Harrison's listings. This is because he has no username or email filled in. Even though, the admaker tells him to fill it in]]> 2010-05-24 <![CDATA[ tons of crap; PaulC support, he can't post at all; Proxy server still having issues with google maps, so creating a new approach with a class that will always unset proxy server settings. I started this Friday, stopped since JOHNY fixed this. He didn't. He's human, no big deal, so I will set it straight yo!]]> 2010-05-25 <![CDATA[ Making the whole experience of creating the bus routes more ui friendly; Adding check boxes to show the stages that the user is at. More confirmation dialogs ; aliignment of walkscore graphic is still off;]]> 2010-05-25 <![CDATA[ phone 1 hour minimum; Discussions, and continued ramp up on project, project scope, roles, what components are there? What it CXimage? What is the new UI and how does it relate to the old MFC I can run?]]> 2010-05-25 <![CDATA[ more transportation continued; We have a situation here, where we MUST have both the map graphic and the transportation working. So if 1 or the other don't work out due to user input error, or a bad zip, I must programatically delete the whole table section that contains both pieces AND the wakscore as well. This is quite a challenge .]]> 2010-05-25 <![CDATA[ overseeing oodle feed and testing for ady; hotpads feed too. Not sure about this one]]> 2010-05-25 <![CDATA[ Found issue with zip code tool. Need to make it more user friendly. I noticed the transportation would not come up sometimes if one of the listings did NOT have a zip code in there. A fluke]]> 2010-05-26 <![CDATA[ on site and building a release for sang and/or ady and wifey. Server date is still being a problem on rainmakerPRO. Maybe I always get the server date from a public UTC time place, so this is never an issue ever again?]]> 2010-05-26 <![CDATA[ POPULATING the transit data for later retrieval by other agents. Once the tool is done once, I now add the database, and the interface to the database to write the data back up to the Central data store. This way, when the next user comes, it can retrieve that part. Also, this means code to retrieve as well when the feed gets called. So now we have another table we must query from when the user fetches his/her feed]]> 2010-05-27 <![CDATA[ since there's a tool to get the right zip code // we store it now in my table, so it can be used to make everything WORK]]> 2010-05-27 <![CDATA[ Implementing the fetching of the zip code now that it stores, so not only do bus routes work, more zip / map/ graphics will now miraculously appear in the admaker]]> 2010-05-28 <![CDATA[ android fine tuning. I have nicer looking results with maps, but the problem is that I the results don't go back to the other page it came from. It works on the share option and should work here too but it does not. This is holding me up. This only. I then can release a newer version which looks nicer and has a map/share/ option. We are going to do a walkscore option too!!!]]> 2010-05-30 <![CDATA[ Did I mention lots of android which makes use of all this transportation/walk score ?]]> 2010-05-30 <![CDATA[ android fine tuning. I have nicer looking results with maps, but the problem is that I the results don't go back to the other page it came from. It works on the share option and should work here too but it does not. This is holding me up. This only. I then can release a newer version which looks nicer and has a map/share/ option. We are going to do a walkscore option too!!!]]> 2010-05-31 <![CDATA[ making back button not crash on android 2nd version app.]]> 2010-05-31 <![CDATA[ adding request a showing feature]]> 2010-05-31 <![CDATA[ anroid (programmer #2)adding request a showing feature]]> 2010-05-31 <![CDATA[ rediculous fine tuning of all this transporation crap. There are so many stages of development here and it's tiring. WHat I don't want, is the old templlates NOT to work and not taking advantage of zip codes. So, since our new techniques are adding zip codes correctly, we rely on the admaker for the correct zip codes instead of RESMET. SO I now change code for the better to make all of these longitute/latitude things to work.]]> 2010-06-02 <![CDATA[ Tranportation fine tuning. Trying to get the map centered. Works perfect in preview in all browsers, but uncle craig mangles this; Also, Philip had some good feedack. He got an error on one property with walkscore. ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved. Turns out, this is the proxy server not being cooperative]]> 2010-06-03 <![CDATA[ working on delete just 1 ad from admaker debugger tool]]> 2010-06-04 <![CDATA[ also - fixing updating summary text that Don wright says does not work. He's right]]> 2010-06-04 <![CDATA[ adding transportation for main default template. Ugh]]> 2010-06-07 <![CDATA[ kids will like this one. Implementing close by properties or similar fo the agents on their ads. This means nice eye candy for users and the agents instead of just see my other listings, they will see photos like preview propeties schmucks.]]> 2010-06-07 <![CDATA[ madness with all this similar crap. Adding to other templates the default one, fine tuning rediculously. Fixed bug where it would show the routes twice sometimes;]]> 2010-06-08 <![CDATA[ More transportation AND similar functionality. Adding to aphrodite and while I'm there, I noticed that this has no standard map graphic. So, this while I add map,walkscore, bus/mbta data AND last but not least, NEW similar ads like these functionality]]> 2010-06-09 <![CDATA[ adding 2 new templates with transportaion, walk score and similar ad functionality. Once done, I'll fine tune the similar, which will magically work for all other similar ads.]]> 2010-06-10 <![CDATA[ Debugging similar not working (working, but grabs the same one it's on);Also, tranportation options are not working for aphrodite template. I cannot for the life of me realize why not;Looking at the android app using on the results a panel. It's not intuitive to where the next button is. People just assume it's one page. This is on my end, not the other programmer]]> 2010-06-11 <![CDATA[ Android menus are not the answer. According to Shari, I have to make this more intuitive to the user and correctly so. I know must create a panels, with the results on the top, and the bottom with a next, home, and previous options. users might not be smart enough to be able to hit the options menu]]> 2010-06-14 <![CDATA[ oodle/facebook feed; More template/testing with another template. This one template 5 or 'hestia' template; Chaning REMEProps to only show properties no matter what, for craigslist if their date is less than 30 days old. I purposely do show them in case something went wrong on the date. I will ignore this with a happy medium of 30 days]]> 2010-06-14 <![CDATA[ ba has the words unauthorized in their start page and the code inadvertently thinks we are logging in incorrectly. The problem? The admaker has TONS of new code, and I can't just do a release for this small fix, so I must revert back to the last release, which was on 5/5/2010.]]> 2010-06-15 <![CDATA[ More support for templates. Going all out and want to add 3 more, hestia, athena and savate. Today it's hestia]]> 2010-06-16 <![CDATA[ on site meetings and more; Monica gave great feedback as to some of the issues with the transportation stops; One is that the order of the pictures somehow, changes. Say you select a photo of the kitchen as your first photo. If you use the transportation dialog, when you come out of this tool, the order you chose previously will not retain; Don't know how this is happening;]]> 2010-06-16 <![CDATA[ Big one here. We have massive recursion happening and I don't know why. At times, instead of querying the map tool for instance, it will make the call 4 times. This is insane and DOG DOG DOG slow. This is #1 priority and trumps everything else]]> 2010-06-17 <![CDATA[ lookin ginto a couple spelling claims. so far, it works for me]]> 2010-06-17 <![CDATA[ noticed that settings database and other code is not saving the bostonapartmetns. user id for some strange reason. I don't know how long this has been the case but debugging]]> 2010-06-18 <![CDATA[ some type of hot tub code machine? NO. trying to align the two last ones so they look correct . This is small potatoes compared to the real problem of recursion. It's now making calls 4 times to the database when it should not. This is highest priority above all; also contined roadwork on 2.0 version of android that has navigation at the bottom. It's matter of making it look nice because these are not hmtl containers. This will be a view/panel (panels don't exist with android) at the bottom and again why I didn't do it. But someone pointed this out, and since you listen to too many people (never the expert) you now have more work and constant late projects because you want 100% perfection. Does not exist in software.]]> 2010-06-18 <![CDATA[ don wright double spacing issue. Since he has lots of html garbage in there, his ads get double spaced so to speak. I'll see if it is happening to others]]> 2010-06-18 <![CDATA[ excluding walkscore from the template]]> 2010-06-21 <![CDATA[ more work on my plate. Form processing is not working]]> 2010-06-21 <![CDATA[ swapping out all , ALL of the elements due to fail safe network scenarios. I didn't plan for this, but either way, still takes the same amount of time whether I did it earlier or now. Code RED: NextProxy server is down. Must rebuild. Been up though for 48 days. Very good considering it takes a pounding like a Porn star on female Viagra]]> 2010-06-22 <![CDATA[ HOW ABOUT TWEAKING FORMS WHICH HAVEN'T BEEN WORKING for ages. Again, when I do everything (I managed the server myself)all forms worked for 6 years. someone else takes over, then it's ghetto time. I keep telling you spltting up work does not make things go faster. NEVER does. Unless you have two Patrick Donovans. You DO NOT split the work]]> 2010-06-22 <![CDATA[ hours upon hours of emails and discussions. I want to do code, test, and get this release out. I cannot react while doing a release. Late night trying to debug hestia template works sometimes, but not others for transportation. There's always one bad apple as they say.]]> 2010-06-24 <![CDATA[ thought of something like always, for efficiency. Resmet IDs are unique, but there are many units at one address, so there is no need to create walkscore and transportation data based on each streetnum,street and unit. I will now redo some of this code to account for this. THis means adding the streetnum,street to the database and lookup a potential match. IF found, don't create another one.]]> 2010-06-24 <![CDATA[ MORE failsafe mechanisms to guard against issues. A tab is now displayed which gives the user the option to remove it from their ad]]> 2010-06-24 <![CDATA[ similar ad functionality not working and why? It works for me but don and ady say when you click on the link ,it doesn' t work. I did and there is not such ID. Looking into and debugging this]]> 2010-06-24 <![CDATA[ WHOA! some ads on similar are coming up with html garbage and some are not. Chasing this doosey....;Also, the redundant bug is finally caught. This was causing multiple calls to the transportation apis; Testing REfernce # to see if it works]]> 2010-06-25 <![CDATA[ Form testing and form testing. It appears just a few forms are not making it. Luxury and somervillepads]]> 2010-06-27 <![CDATA[ android app - fetching transportation options from working properties..]]> 2010-06-28 <![CDATA[ email torture and email torture. Don and I are going through the last of the templates to make sure that they don't have issues. He found three of them with issues at times; There's also a migration issue here. Meaning, we started out doing it one way, and now we are doing it completely different so some tables aren't populated and some are due to new code and fields. I must start fresh to get a real feel for things....Sorry. I must wipe out all of these fields again and that way, everything will work perfectly]]> 2010-06-30 <![CDATA[ double spacing debugging on where it's happening. Trapping is a pain in the ass; Looking into doing a release for this; maybe;]]> 2010-07-05 <![CDATA[ emails and lead forwarding; Also, getting back to the China farm ssue for quick and dirty; Doing code to make/trap special hotkey for login. This will flag user as a china/farm blaster person; Need a separate login for these users to flag them as separate; Also, our main table now has a new field to let users know that a record was posted by the farm blasters]]> 2010-07-06 <![CDATA[ breakwires management; changing credentials and setting up ady to take over campaign email updating]]> 2010-07-08 <![CDATA[ phone calls discussions;adi leaving;strategies;continued ad takedown mechanism taking into account new links of aging with eric. Creating this in the debugger so when tested by Mark R, we can move this into the admaker as an admin tool.]]> 2010-07-09 <![CDATA[ bad ad checker continued; Same set of objects are now being used for the admaker debugger tool which will help determine renegade agents and take down their ads fromt he web sites]]> 2010-07-09 <![CDATA[ taking care of boston apartments, not farmblaster; taking care of spider rewording, not farmblaster; reading tons of emails, not farmblaster ]]> 2010-07-12 <![CDATA[ video change gears phone and strategy]]> 2010-07-12 <![CDATA[ video change gears phone and strategy]]> 2010-07-12 <![CDATA[ video change gears phone and strategy; Can't do both farmblaster and video server]]> 2010-07-12 <![CDATA[ admaker support for eben's email about error message using the transportation dialog; This turns out to be user error. They won't get this if they use the application properly; With that being said, I can help them in code by triple checking to see if they skipped a step, so I can baby sit them more....]]> 2010-07-12 <![CDATA[ youtube uploader changes galore; Redoing the preview player now; Since we don't have avi /mp4 files, we need to play flv files to preview; Not supporting uploaded already any longer; Can't track for many reasons;]]> 2010-07-13 <![CDATA[ youtube uploader changes galore; Redoing the preview player now; Since we don't have avi /mp4 files, we need to play flv files to preview; Not supporting uploaded already any longer; Can't track for many reasons; ; changed the fetching and reading from the old server code of mine, to the newer feed John created; Added more functionality in the preview pane; Looking into and started work on a C# component that can watermark in case of BOOBERY. Many videos are watermarked wrongly with allston for instance when they are in fact not in allston but Dedham. If we had an override in the app, we could overlay this mistake with another watermark and we would get the best of both worlds]]> 2010-07-13 <![CDATA[ chasing bug all day of map graphics not being created, and only blank map graphics are now in the ads since the new release. NO ONE, and myself included caught this one baby. It was a stupid bug, like all my bugs. I was hiding one of the controls and should not have. The old dialog used to create map graphics only. when we added the walkscore too, it's a different size, so I added another control which is hidden and shown. I did this to be a good programmer, but this teaches me that it's NOT always good to be efficient. IN the real non-text-book world, I should have created another class just for this. Then we would not have this issue. Instead, I chose to modify an existing object, and give it double functionality. There IS no wrong or right way. Sometimes the textbook approach is good. Other times you get burned. ]]> 2010-07-14 <![CDATA[ tweaking more tweaking; Phone is not showing up sometimes with usersettings table, so I now add another field to synch with CA, and between the two, I can now guarnteee the correct phone. ]]> 2010-07-20 <![CDATA[ continued updating of bad maps in spare cycles and compiling pauses; Admaker of 2 years and shoehorning this to work as a farm poster]]> 2010-07-20 <![CDATA[ video server issues; Ampersands in some of these feeds are gagging it. These are special reserved characters; Map graphic tool. Running this tool on all properties starting with resmetID = 5]]> 2010-07-21 <![CDATA[ looking into resmet/spellchecker issue for patrick b. Logging in,creating a descriptino for 91 gore, doing the spell checker and trying to figure out why it's not picking up for patrickB]]> 2010-07-23 <![CDATA[ oodle feed peekskie; also, continued master blaster. Using admaker components to do what the admaker does in master blaster; first look to see if the map graphic exists before creating it; We also are going to change on both sides, this one component(new) that the admaker will use and the master blaster will use. It's a map graphic component which will check the address and the street and city. If there's a match, it won't create it. This is good for speed and network hits]]> 2010-07-26 <![CDATA[ mapping our neighborhoods with phillips neighborhoods to make a match work. There is no cambridge central square but there is a CAMBRIDGE - Central Square/Cambridgeport if you follow my drift. These are text values that have to be mapped correctly to provide a match]]> 2010-07-26 <![CDATA[ late hours redoing the non - marketed listings from RESMET using visual web developer of course and trying to see why we only get 136 non-marketed listings. THe query doesn't lie]]> 2010-07-27 <![CDATA[ price/date off by 3 hours on server clock. Pain]]> 2010-07-28 <![CDATA[ creating a new table on our server that will match our resmet feed. Since resmet has too many tables, and too many users constantly pounding it, any half wit would come to the conclusion eventually that we must not gang bang it so to speak. Instead, we do what is now obvious, we extract daily from 1 query, and we insert it into our table for speed. Speed kills. Never forget this. This is now what the masterblaster application and anything else will now query this table for anything you want]]> 2010-07-28 <![CDATA[ more of non marketed database things; 70 chester is coming up as $125.00. This cannot be right; Creating the tables painfully that will be used for speed! Writing the script in php (DOT NET I would be done and it's 200 times slower to execute) ; Testing of download, and insert into our data; Next creating methods after downloading all of the active listings, then search our admaker database to 'TRULY' know what is marketed and what is not; ]]> 2010-07-29 <![CDATA[ implementing the features on this puppy. For every feature we have, we must do logic since all values from resmet are widespeard. Some values like fireplace have 1,2,3, other's come in true/false, then some come as straight text]]> 2010-07-30 <![CDATA[ spider maintenance but can't update because of no access; Breaking up the components in the admaker to be used in true OOP. Let's do it the slower, but correct way so when I die, someone can read the code; There 's an authentication component now I'm creating,so the masterblaster and the china reposter and the admaker debugger will all make use of one component. Object Oriented programming 'best practices' as I have seen this word overused recently. So we don't want duplicate code, and now these components like the authntication component( login to Central AUTH and authenticate against china list, or default Central Auth); Adding new neighborhoods from time to time to make it look nicer, and of course the default is boston neighborhood; MUST finish up the new release (target today, 8/1/2010) just a few things on the transportation I'm cleaning up. The big one is the video, which isn't working, but when it is, it's just a matter or uncommented code and no new release will be needed. Oh yeah! the default code , which no one sees but me plays a standard video mp4 file, and I think john's new mp4 files are not compliant. will talk to him abou this later on in the wek]]> 2010-08-01 <![CDATA[ many hours today getting masterblaster in it's own encapsulated state. This is actually a quick and dirty since I'm being rushed. The better way, which takes TIME is to make it 100% encapsulated. This means a craigpost wizard DLL, a tranport DLL which is used by all apps. all of this code is closely coupled, so doing it right would take a good week of of nothing but this but the right way to do it. If I do this, I can go retire, and work part time on this project without affecting your budget considerably. This is what is known as scalable]]> 2010-08-02 <![CDATA[ adding in unique REFERENCE per requirments; Adding random text as well below features/amenities; Also, must have our own MASTER FEED to differentiate from main feed. This will only pull china/master blaster records]]> 2010-08-02 <![CDATA[ spider updating torture back and forth; Need to look into cleanup of virtual directories on web server. Need to do this after main day and code is done. Tragic. Not my idea to change any of this]]> 2010-08-03 <![CDATA[ spider updating torture back and forth; Need to look into cleanup of virtual directories on web server. Need to do this after main day and code is done. Tragic. Not my idea to change any of this]]> 2010-08-03 <![CDATA[ more torture of changing (today) code red. Latest is stop masterblaster and update all of these pages 70+ or so to include disclaimer on all pages for propertydetails, mls, and resultsdb.php]]> 2010-08-05 <![CDATA[ making all the changes from meeting tuesday; price min/max/caps, fee comments/additions,; now trying to login to actuall post a record and having issues with the accounts; Not lettimg me into craigslist]]> 2010-08-06 <![CDATA[ lots of testing of feed of masterblaster/resemet and verifying accuracy;added closets feature , disposal, fridge more... adding code to write to database from masterblaster app which is completely different from admaker structure. At point of forms on craigslist and]]> 2010-08-06 <![CDATA[ many things. Conference call, getting masterblaster accounts working on craigslist; Mapping them to our app and associate with a resmetuser, and china/blaster user; Troubleshooting feed (ongoing tweaking until right). Right now, 54 alton place is and should be available but not making it into our app. WHY??????]]> 2010-08-09 <![CDATA[ almost forgot major,major thing: making a property link come back to our site. ]]> 2010-08-10 <![CDATA[ early late tuesday, and wednesday on site buttoning up the masterblaster for release; Fixing the map issue. It creates the correct map and for some reason it's blank when I publish on craigslist. I fixed on site, and just as I released for riz-eel, I tested and it wasn't working. So it works 60% of the time? back to bug chasing]]> 2010-08-11 <![CDATA[ thursday:looking into 5 separate things, 6 if you count the request to pretty up MHP more; 1)trying to finish up master blaster 2)new directory structure requests on my sandbox, which is now shared by others and afraid of things breaking. 3)Walkscore images in admaker on one template is not working. It appears it's showing the same pic alway 4)On the default template, it won't always show the correct map 5)John Brennan pointed out the wrong map on 15 aberdeen. This was due to RESMET being incorrect]]> 2010-08-12 <![CDATA[ url rewriting madness late into the night]]> 2010-08-13 <![CDATA[ creating an SEO repair utility that will help bring back southbostonapartments.com from th dead]]> 2010-08-13 <![CDATA[ creating an SEO repair utility that will help bring back southbostonapartments.com from th dead; release of masterblaster not working. Binaries work, but for some reason, this distribution does not work. We get cannot modify headers errors. What's up with that?]]> 2010-08-13 <![CDATA[ on site trying to get master blaster working. It appears a new version has to be created since I believe something in this project file is corrupt. Meetings on site; Fixing a bug, sortof kindof but might be due to corrupt project where at startup we get a an element error but not in the project itself; strange. Very strange;]]> 2010-08-17 <![CDATA[ got the remeprops mods in there. This one had to do with the new changes of two weeks ago. Those mods were to show company name with every listing. Instead of letting this slide, I have to write code to work around this temporary solution. This is why software takes long with you Demetrios. It will not ever be perfect and you must choose your battles like all other customers do. I put in special temporary code now, which will go away, which checks for the phone number I store in the database. this is all due to the fact we only have one company phone number, and I randomize the phones;]]> 2010-08-18 <![CDATA[ tackling duplicate bus stops; This is due to the data from the mbta. They give and expose the same bus or T stop with different ID numbers and different lat/long pairs.]]> 2010-08-18 <![CDATA[ tackling duplicate bus stops; This is due to the data from the mbta. They give and expose the same bus or T stop with different ID numbers and different lat/long pairs.]]> 2010-08-19 <![CDATA[ creating code that will auto delete postings 7 days old that are posted on cragislist. This is a 2 pronged approach. The first is in the masterblaster itself and will check for this as well, but this will guarantee this. The problem is we don't want to have too much network traffic and check every 2 minutes. Bad idea. So there is lag time in deleting records 168 hours (7 days)old]]> 2010-08-20 <![CDATA[ today(sun)publishing admakerblaster. Renamed app Friday, copied and reconfigured evertything because click once failed for some reason. NOw I'mt at the point where something is wrong at startup. It works, just the first record gives us the message Mark Roseboom reported. Only on release. Binaries work fine, in visual studio fine too. Debugging this]]> 2010-08-22 <![CDATA[ trying to do 2 things: 1)fix a bug in blaster where when the app starts up, on the first record only, it will not bring up a preview. 2)clickonce deployment is finally solved. It's due to the fact that there was a garbage character in the deployment file itself and this caused pain and suffering. Live and learn.]]> 2010-08-22 <![CDATA[ blaster release:server side auto delete after 7 days old touch up;Debugging script that pulls the data from RESMET and trying to catch the errors I get sometimes. This way, we can try 3 times and it 'appears' that it will work. go figure]]> 2010-08-23 <![CDATA[ GETTTING ERROR message saying swapping elements at times; Also, one property shows a schematic as the first picture]]> 2010-08-23 <![CDATA[ minutia,minutia --- changing the order of how showpropertydetails.php displays company information. THis is what slows down development. Too much attention to details DOES NOT WORK in software.; Taking time away from master blaster and admaker releases I'm trying to do]]> 2010-08-24 <![CDATA[ updating project schedule to reflect changes that need to be done in the admaker. Once this is complete, the goal is to dig into RESMET]]> 2010-08-24 <![CDATA[ facebook places research..Yeah, this time it's my fault to change gears but something new and interesting is too hard to pass up......On site with meetings and fixing bug of loop becing caused by our error message "error swapping elements']]> 2010-08-25 <![CDATA[ added dialog and save setting to toggle between showing the preview automatically or not;also, discussed the possibility with Rosebud on making the app delete from craig. Then discussed putting in the capability like the admaker of manual features and basically overriding some of the content. Right now, there's no override of price,beds,features, text etc...We might want to consider these options]]> 2010-08-26 <![CDATA[ map tool fixing. Every few days (always forget to mention this. This is ongoing)in spare cycles I use this map tool to see who is uploading maps that are blank. It then recreatet hese maps with the admaker debugger tool. The agents should check their ads and know when this happens; Facebook places researching (yeah, too much probably...) SEO of dorchesterpads.com. This is a sacrificial lamb and I have google indexed 92 urls baby. 92 Master blaster back to debugging call that happens infrequently. Today can't get it to do it one time, but yesterday it ran a code snippet 35 times in a row.]]> 2010-08-27 <![CDATA[ migration issues on fixing. Brooklinepads.com was one of the first site, if not THE first site to make use of the new nice looking highslide EYE CANDY. I was asked to fix what I did not code. As if... So, we went back and forth in emails, then made phone calls and after trying to find a needle in a haystack, found the issue. The new file structure and paths was causing this not to work (this is expected with migration. Why some people never migrate). Nothing is easy, this is proof. Fixed now to refer to the new file location of the database files and is working. Now to found out other site that are broken and fix.]]> 2010-08-30 <![CDATA[ line item 35 of project schedule server side takedown of ads. Debugging not working; THere is an overlap that has to be addressed here and some ads are not being picked up as well, the bigger concern;Map functionality testing in blaster. This is yet to be given the OK and why I have the fail safe mod in there; Want to get back to the ba full ads mechansims that's in the debugger that was started 3 weeks ago;]]> 2010-08-31 <![CDATA[ farm user account list, farm user account database queries and access, farm user account dialog to switch between accounts; farm user account code logic to switch between accounts, saving this data for future scalability;]]> 2010-09-02 <![CDATA[ since it is sept 1st, brushing off code from last year that I never got to finish(again). This is the ad transfer mechanism. It is sitll at 90% done and , not tested. The UI in the admaker is done, but the server side code it talks to is not tested due to a myriad of reasons. This implies the blaster is OK and ready to ship of course..]]> 2010-09-02 <![CDATA[ continued sept 2nd,.....Most notably you must test on live data and can't undo easily if and when this happens and the BA side data must be synched an be accurate or one could take down ads belonging to the wrong persons, or bog down eric's server... Many things on the server side]]> 2010-09-02 <![CDATA[ blaster not removing and taking down ads (automated script) that have expired. It now shows RED which means it's already posted but if it works, it will remove ads that are posted twice a day]]> 2010-09-02 <![CDATA[ master blaster script debugging solved. Looks like there was a bug in actual linux/unix shell script and the scripts weren't being executed. The first section of code did run, but the section that actually inserted new data did not. This is now fixed]]> 2010-09-02 <![CDATA[ ba functionality in many parts; There's the figuring out of usernames and passwords on BA for each user, there's the what to do part for each user. Ad takedown or ad transfer. Then there's a separate part mentioned earlier this week where the aging takes place. If it's older than 90 days, take it down that eric wrote. This part is tricky since we want to synch with the admaker when this happens. ]]> 2010-09-03 <![CDATA[ creating new agent feed which consists of synching between central auth/ boston apartments/ and the admaker. This will be used in the ad takedown tool to remove ads on ba and synch them properly so the admaker works correctly,and allows the transfer of ads from one agent or another. I am also planning on reverse engineering the delete part. This is when the ad gets removed forever and means 2 more steps but Eric allows this only 1 ad at a time to be safe(this is good practice). No batch delete of ads. Only batch transfer of ads.]]> 2010-09-05 <![CDATA[ blaster mods and release. Changing the UI a bit for selecting rotating accounts. there was a hole in the selection process that I fixed; Looked into Paul C saying he was getting similar posting messages all the time. I posted ads fine withouth getting them. I suspect it's the farm doing something wrong. Don't know what yet though..]]> 2010-09-07 <![CDATA[ aging process in debugger tool for BA to help deleting ads 90,30,60 days old continued; screen scraping/reverse engineering (continued )to make it easy to select each user who has offensive numbers and synch with admaker. I discovered that the html code is malformed but have ways to get around this to make it work.]]> 2010-09-08 <![CDATA[ admaker:looking into the possibility that craigslist changed something? Getting report that posting similar message is coming up on not just Paulc but others; Posting with eben and paulc's accounts with 1 similar message using paul. Posted fine the next try and reposted one of his price changes without a hitch]]> 2010-09-08 <![CDATA[ Contined from Friday...The idea is to take down all ads that are 90days or older. This will not work by "all" because this implies that we are synched perfectly. That never happens in real life. We have to age ads by individual user only, and then I can run a query on the admaker database to make this happen.]]> 2010-09-12 <![CDATA[ deactivation, and update as new portion for DEBUGGER and/or admin functionality. screen scraping the last piece, which is to set the view to say 500 (pain timewise but complete) parse the SUPER large form and create my own post data to be submitted to eric's page. This is the same as his interface going in there and the 'do to the listings button' and above you select what action, activate,deactivate, This also means each user can now have an update all ads as new in the admaker, not just the admins. That will come soon next..]]> 2010-09-13 <![CDATA[ today snuck in the update batch functionality. I already wrote code that I could use 80% for individual users, so of course I am going to put the batch functionality in there. The hardest part of parsing was already done for deactivation in batch, so now I tweaked it somewhat, and now users can update all of their ads as new. Just like the admaker!]]> 2010-09-14 <![CDATA[ massive functionality added and smoothed. debugged and found deactivation not working. Worked around eric's limitations and now works. Added scraping of every agent per page, so when we fetch the users at say oneshow, we now go into another screen and scrape the edit screen for each and every user. Tomorrow will add the ability to change the password and other elements of a bostonapartment user]]> 2010-09-15 <![CDATA[ contined parsing and parsing to take away agents' ability to log into BA. added activation of ads in batch mode. We now have deactivate, activate and update as new. Start of getting on the one SUPER screen the # of active ads, and old ads 30 days etc...This will make this screen VERY useful for anyone . I plan to add Central Auth and RESMET picture count values in there eventually if Demetrios and Yuanny want this]]> 2010-09-16 <![CDATA[ contined parsing and parsing to take away agents' ability to log into BA. added activation of ads in batch mode. We now have deactivate, activate and update as new. Start of getting on the one SUPER screen the # of active ads, and old ads 30 days etc...This will make this screen VERY useful for anyone . I plan to add Central Auth and RESMET picture count values in there eventually if Demetrios and Yuanny want this]]> 2010-09-16 <![CDATA[ admaker problems reporting about servers busy. Lookie into;blaster emails from yuan and tony and looking into some issues they are reporting; I thought I might have left in code to bypass proxies, but not so; Ba editing of users so we don't need them to log in; Modifiying new user screen to be both edit and addnew; Oodle/Facebook reverse engineering. Not starting that part, but created a facebook connect with my oodle account to my facebook account. Then posted to oodle, and as they claim, it posted in the boston area classified. One thing to note, i cannot find this listing when I search. Don't know why..]]> 2010-09-17 <![CDATA[ saturday...resmet screen scraping, massive login workarounds due their crappy code. Sorry, but these guys are not even as good as rudy. They better skills yes, but the do everything haphazardly. I mean.....I'll get off the balcony.. ]]> 2010-09-18 <![CDATA[ final Bostonapartment piece of getting the last login information. This should have taken 30 minutes by to so much time, I grew a beard problem solving. Looking into the revisiting of place of interest so to speak. Emailed the troops about this but the idea is to store local starbucks,laundry,supermarket etc....the way walkscore works with their places of interest. We can do this shit too!]]> 2010-09-19 <![CDATA[ making huge changes across all kinds of software component and server side;Proxy type database fields added, update that web service to take into consideration which one. 0 = admaker, and 1 means blaster; change code in debugger tool to allow switching between the two, so by default, it will only fetch admaker type=0; Tomorrow or next available time, I will make mods in blaster to make use of this new query string argument; Recon on blaster records and realize that the feed is choking today due to a bad char that I haven't seen before.phone calls with demetrios,roseboom;email reading as always]]> 2010-09-20 <![CDATA[ proxy server down. Must bring back up.]]> 2010-09-23 <![CDATA[ Here's some of the things I have to do to be perfect so we can reallocate to the candiate for posting KEYWORDS TO LOOK FOR STILL ON CRAIG DELETED BY AUTHOR =================================== This posting has been deleted by its author FLAG DOUCHE ======================= flagged removal PAGE NOT FOUND ERROR ==================== Page Not Found <p>404 Error</p>]]> 2010-09-23 <![CDATA[ creating KEYWORDS for new templates for sharit to use; where do i start today in 100 places? The high priority is to test to see why the map graphic does show up or does not?]]> 2010-09-27 <![CDATA[ Map graphic delete capability. This will be in the blaster and admaker so if a user sees a square nothing, they can delete the graphic. Then they can redo it and it will work from there]]> 2010-09-27 <![CDATA[ need to change pull data from resmet mechanism to save ALL active listings so we can show all active listings. This means to change our feed completely on the server side, and to change all kinds of things in the master blaster. Stupid to ask for this because it is not worth the time, yet you wonder why things take time. TOO many features are asked for never considerting the time adds up. ]]> 2010-09-27 <![CDATA[ looking into the china farm poster and why they are getting the cannot update. I'T S BECAUSE YUANNY IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE USING BINARIES IN PRODUCTION? What? Binaries are for testing and NOT to be used by anyone but test engineers.]]> 2010-09-28 <![CDATA[ good stuff today. Added a super dialog to redo a map graphic and upload it to the web to replace a NEW YORK one or a bad one.]]> 2010-09-28 <![CDATA[ redoing masterblaster so we can now have it search for descriptons input by alex f under user officeng. This requires 2new feeds and redoing the whole left pane click to work differently than before. it now works though, so it's nice. The idea is to click, and then see if indeed that user mentions above has a description . If it does, it overrides what we would do normally.]]> 2010-09-30 <![CDATA[ added NEW totals functionality. I already clean all of the records when I import them. Now Demetrios or Mark wants me to change this completely. Now someone wants totals based 100% differently on how I pull the data. I don't know these totals because the batch job discards them. I now have to rewrite code in 3places just to accomplish this.]]> 2010-10-01 <![CDATA[ Added a new tab to accommodate new requirements snuk in 5 days ago about totals. FACTOR this in for you dummies out there who can't add hours up. New task = schedule move back. time is not free. Then it changed also from 5 days ago and morphed into other new requirements like toggling non posted and posted. No such thing again because this is a a fluctuating thing and it constantly changes ]]> 2010-10-01 <![CDATA[ continued from yesterday list of not marketed properties for alex or anyone who uses the officeng account. This way, they can see what hasn't been posted. Turns out this is a waste of time because we arleady know this value from the batch job that runs. What this tab should do, is show all active listings that qualify for the blaster. Not considering what has been posted already. The left pane already shows us this. It shows what qualifies and what needs to be posted.]]> 2010-10-05 <![CDATA[ cleaning up bad picture graphics for hours; looking into fee issue with Eben trying to see if I can duplicate]]> 2010-10-07 <![CDATA[ cleaning up bad picture graphics for hours; looking into fee issue with Eben trying to see if I can duplicate; setting up new proxies to be used by admaker server side web services]]> 2010-10-07 <![CDATA[ adding a new tab for fishman to see the active possible listings from resmet. Showing non dups as well and counting how many are duplicates. This is a big issue in itself. It also will show all active listing not dups, and not already posted by the blaster]]> 2010-10-08 <![CDATA[ resmet dup issues. Doing all kinds of queries and scenarios to try to find out how many dups there actually are. I counted 1910 actually that were duplicates, but this has to be wrong. I need to get a new copy of all the data and import into my local MSSQL server and try to get to the bottom of this.]]> 2010-10-10 <![CDATA[ maddening requirements and emails all day long; blaster, new template requests, ghosting, explaining things to everyone]]> 2010-10-11 <![CDATA[ multiple things; trying to understand why, and where we are not getting the unique ID from craigslist but we just sit there and you have to close out the dialog; Looking at log information obtained from Eben; Putting more debug in the logs to troubleshoot]]> 2010-10-13 <![CDATA[ map graphic redo capability; Crashes now, but fixing as we go...This is causing much grief to me because I don't know why this started happening]]> 2010-10-14 <![CDATA[ navy hephaestus template work into admaker continued;]]> 2010-10-14 <![CDATA[ ongoing fixing broken map graphics as we go along; Keep finding them, and I use the tool in the blaster to do this now which allows me put in streetnum, street and city and zip manually and it will create the correct google map ]]> 2010-10-14 <![CDATA[ looking into how to POSSIBLY use a proxy to access google from china with the youtube uploader application]]> 2010-10-15 <![CDATA[ fishman claim that the blaster does not select the correct bedrooms. Have sent emails, texts and Voicemails that this is not the case. Maybe this only happens with studios? Sent 2 links that worked for me. Not enough information. Amateur hour]]> 2010-10-17 <![CDATA[ trying to figure out where in the admaker it is possibly some bug that is recreating a map graphic at times, when it should not be doing so]]> 2010-10-17 <![CDATA[ constantly answering way too many emails all week long. I never remember to put that in. Also remember takes time to create weekly hours as well. FYI ]]> 2010-10-17 <![CDATA[ many,many,things; Blaster updates to select beds. It wasn't doing this and I thought it was. bad testing by me. Good job alex;back to 3 new templates and fine tuning. Many have graphic pictures which I can't blot out if we don't have similar or video, so had quite a challenge to finish up these templates. 95% were good, but in these scenerios you must swap out html elements on the fly and this is very finicky with browsers;]]> 2010-10-18 <![CDATA[ Fixing picture graphics as I'm testing; Adding flags to determine if a post was successful but did not grab an ID. I actually have this, but it's complicated what to do next. I think I'm going to have a special case in the database for a record that is posted by a user but there is no associated ID from craig with it. This way, it won't appear on the left pane because that is what will happen; ]]> 2010-10-19 <![CDATA[ Continue...I then must change the feed and the posted report to indicate so; I will ignore it on the left pane and it will be considered "ON CRAIGSLIST" and the right pane should show something as posted but not referenced;]]> 2010-10-19 <![CDATA[ tackling the horrendous problem of posting to craigslist but we dont' get a unique ID. THis will help out with lots of confusion and will prevent other issues as well. Adding special code for this scenario, but I will create a record in the database to flag it as such]]> 2010-10-19 <![CDATA[ bug in new code to delete an ad if it makes it partway through the delete. This is what I was afraid of. I did a price change, and now a flag is set incorrectly and it deletes a listing that hasn't been deleted on craigslist. THis is not easy as some thing software is. ]]> 2010-10-19 <![CDATA[ admaker release candidate and tweaking templates mostly; Added LOST ID for repost as well. THis is MUCH more hairy so to speak with repost as we can get a scenario where we think we DO NOT have a unique ID be in fact we do; ]]> 2010-10-20 <![CDATA[ blaster changes to account for new email-accounts on craigslist; Removed dorchester kinf of offensive verbage]]> 2010-10-20 <![CDATA[ fishman found in the savate template a bug where the link to the photo goes to an empty picture. This has been the case since 2009. THat's a long time. Good catch]]> 2010-10-21 <![CDATA[ fishman found in the savate template a bug where the link to the photo goes to an empty picture. This has been the case since 2009. THat's a long time. Good catch; Fixing this now; start of adding 2 more templates]]> 2010-10-21 <![CDATA[ templates did not have link support in the html. Very hard to find (really) and discover so modifying html to support this so when a user clicks on the picture it goes somewhere and to the correct image;Fixed bug(kindof/sortof) with savate template. There were incorrect references in the html template that referenced the larger picture, so it couldn't match a pattern match of 'md'. The template had hybrid 'md' and 'sm' in there. Fixed this in code so as not to break production users for this template]]> 2010-10-22 <![CDATA[ FEED pull cron job fix. Been trying to solve this for weeks, although havne't spent quality time on it. WOrking now on auto pull and populate from the resmet database]]> 2010-10-22 <![CDATA[ adding new template links to template images which are missing for final 2 new templates; Also fine tuning and the hardest part, swapping out elements on the fly which never line up correctly.]]> 2010-10-24 <![CDATA[ wow. configuring Sql server locally to get to the bottom of resmet duplicates so I can have an understanding of how the ER work. This is so I can now figure out the REAL numbers in the blaster; Changing and finding a watermark issue on my end that was causing the wrong watermark at times. Johny says it's on his end, and that might be the case too, but I know there was a bug in my code that did it at times as well; ]]> 2010-10-24 <![CDATA[ masterblaster support for revere with wiki text and logo;]]> 2010-10-24 <![CDATA[ masterblaster support for revere with wiki text and logo;]]> 2010-10-24 <![CDATA[ masterblaster support for revere with wiki text and logo;added resmetID column so I can do research on posting; The idea is if I see it on the ALL tab, and I don't find it in the posted report or the available to post pane, then why? I can't start the search unless I have the resmetID which is hidden by resmet]]> 2010-10-24 <![CDATA[ looking into possibly making the youtube uploader work with a proxy server class instance or possibly touching the registry and setting the proxy server that way.]]> 2010-10-25 <![CDATA[ hours and hours trying to trap where the green box ugly map graphic is being created and why. It's erroneously being created even though it does not exist; Found one area where it might be happening but now just saw Syhan post and ad on BA and it created and overwrote the map graphic when it should not have]]> 2010-10-25 <![CDATA[ More from Monday: ghosting ghosting recon and redoing some templates and posting with eben account to see if outbound links with walkscore could be causing ghosting. Blaster emails with fishman and everyone else; Phone call with Demetrios; Patrick B phone calls, syhan phone calls, eben phone calls, coding in between]]> 2010-10-25 <![CDATA[ Swapping out elements on one of the templates to show an empty picture in the case of no map. what do we do?testing the crap out of posting to solve or minimize ghosting issues;]]> 2010-10-25 <![CDATA[ walkscore in addtion to simultaneously adding templates,templates,templates mods, then doing this simultaneously? find me another tom brady, and we'll do it STILL not faster. Thanks for being smart and learning dude? All software takes Waaaaay more time than you think]]> 2010-10-30 <![CDATA[ more saturday night working - paulc's account is messed up due to him changing his email address without telling me or maybe he told roseboom and since he's toast, he didn't relay information; Debugging eben saying ad takedown is not working;answering texts;answering emails which require *TIME* on each one to investigate or at the minimim, respond to]]> 2010-10-31 <![CDATA[ simultaneously working on blaster descriptions in dozens of emails containting dozens of area descriptions and guessing which is the defintive list; Admaker release with new delete screen scraping from craigslist; Bug address of beds area if it's 1.5 it shows more...]]> 2010-11-01 <![CDATA[ spider not working. Debugging and taking away from coding tasks]]> 2010-11-01 <![CDATA[ spider not working. Debugging and taking away from coding tasks]]> 2010-11-01 <![CDATA[ looking into Paulc 60 waverly #2 showing requested URL not working for transportation]]> 2010-11-01 <![CDATA[ chasing down blotting out image crashes. This is the walkscore functionality because sometimes, one out of 10 times, WS decides to put in the address.]]> 2010-11-01 <![CDATA[ ongoing issure or 'MAYBE' a bug reported by albert: Every time I try to take an ad down from BA or even update it says invalid login. I know the login is fine because I went straight to Boston Apartments.com and it w]]> 2010-11-02 <![CDATA[ continued albertz. His settings data is not coming through for some reason,so need to investigate why this is so.]]> 2010-11-02 <![CDATA[ continued albertz. His settings data are not coming through for some reason,so need to investigate why this is so.]]> 2010-11-02 <![CDATA[ archiving saved ads with pic order features revisting this code from the past; Let's see if I can make these agents happy by saving them seconds...]]> 2010-11-02 <![CDATA[ more ghosting recon;modifying the debugger to view public search mechanism in addtion to viewing the ad on craigslist]]> 2010-11-02 <![CDATA[ noticed blank phone numbers sometimes in settings table. Notices because public search mechanism added to debugger uses this table. Back to admaker and changed small thing to ensure that whenever we have a blank phone number, ALWAYS save this to the database]]> 2010-11-03 <![CDATA[ map fixer with WSCORE functionality extended to bring up the walkscore dialog to populate and recreate the thing correctly...]]> 2010-11-03 <![CDATA[ tackling collsisions from china. Meaning, if they are posting at the same time as the agent. Added a column long ago for this and now making use of it. Have to add new dialog, which doubles as and agent nofifier, and a farm notifier. New feed to query based on field.This field tells us if it's posted by a farmer,or standard]]> 2010-11-04 <![CDATA[ Farm collision more; Now adding code in admaker to tell each user farm or standard user if the farm is posting most recently or not. For the farm, it tells them or 'guides' them and lets them know recent NON farm posted ads up. This way, they can decide if they should go ahead and post]]> 2010-11-05 <![CDATA[ masterblaster application change to work in FULL mode, meaning we are now using it to post all available properties. This means dozens of if statements throughout the code now to see which mode we are in, new variables, some variables now have double meaning etc. Tony's email about passwords being incorrect]]> 2010-11-07 <![CDATA[ testing the crap out of posting with new ones by me, reposting by me, logging in as others and posting as new, or reposting. All to see if I can EVER get a bad post, which does not show me the posting complete message.]]> 2010-11-08 <![CDATA[ on site]]> 2010-11-09 <![CDATA[ on site again working with the masterblaster and getting it ready]]> 2010-11-10 <![CDATA[ Holy grail of recovery mechanism.]]> 2010-11-11 <![CDATA[ tons of email answering; John's about IPs;blaster showing ad that's in the posted report; This used be taken care of by the old view on the server side. The feed would give me a parameter of 1 or 0. Since the left feed now has ALL records, I must change this on the application side to look at the posted feed first, which the code does not do now;]]> 2010-11-15 <![CDATA[ adding code per change request from alex, which is good suggestion to add a record in the posted report if we post *WITHOUT* refreshing. Making changes to blaster to address records showing up on left that are already posted]]> 2010-11-15 <![CDATA[ blaster mod to insert a row into the listview control after posting. This caused confusion since the posters did not see it there, on the posted view/tab and in order for them to see it, they had to refresh, which takes time now to load 2400+ records into the listview control]]> 2010-11-15 <![CDATA[ new bug fix for feed/mode change. Beds of zero was showing up, so like it 'used' to work, fix to display Studio instead of beds. I get a value of 0 from Resmet those bastards; Also, since I'm removing from the left side to help ease network traffic, doing the same to admaker.]]> 2010-11-16 <![CDATA[ debugging 1085 dorchester ave 02125 map NY issue; Mapfixer RESMET interface testing and redoing the query to be efficient. Now working and will retrofit into mapfixer tool so we can look up any resmet ID now]]> 2010-11-16 <![CDATA[ debugging tony's issues with passwords in the farm version of the admaker; Release Candidate support feedback and tweaking all day. LOTS of emails all day to slow me down, slow me down; Phone calls to slow me down; Debugging blaster issue of not being able to fill in the password after 5 posts, different from admaker issue; Disclaimer changes to the admaker. They are all blank right now; New issue of no pictures selected message comes up incorrectly in the admaker. Found bug where in one case it wrote a record to the database thinking it successfully added to craigslist, but it did not; More but dont have all day to type]]> 2010-11-18 <![CDATA[ new mods to recover ID have now incorrectly created a bug which creates an ad, even though it did NOT make it to craigslist;;Mods to admaker to ensure that they don't use the same template in consecutive tries;Chasing down no pictures selected message box which appears now mysteriously when you try to post to BA.]]> 2010-11-19 <![CDATA[ adtakedown needs forms changes. It deletes the ad only on our tables, but not on craigslist, so this is not good. Must debug and figure out why....]]> 2010-11-19 <![CDATA[ on site trying to get the release out the door. Had good discussions with Eben, Sang's counterpart(don't remember his name)about ghosting and Kim thiele about resmet duplicates; Fourth template working in slowly; Copyright text for new templates and default and slowly working this in; Archiving testing, removing confirmation box when an ID is created on craigslist but we couldn't get it. There used to be a confirm which was superfluous, since we always want the agen to say yes]]> 2010-11-23 <![CDATA[ Modifyin many templates(all) to get rid of the real estate company in favor of web site. Tweaking each sinc all have different html surrounding this text]]> 2010-11-24 <![CDATA[ china mode mods to fetch network traffic less times; Disabling features that might not be safe that I didn't catch before; ]]> 2010-11-24 <![CDATA[ Final testing with release with new china/mod changes to make sure I didn't break anything;]]> 2010-11-24 <![CDATA[ archiving feature now has some issues. THere is a picture randomizer in there now, so the precise URL isn't saved, but the picture randomizer. So when we brin gback the photos, sometimes they don't appear. Not good. Need to look into this now]]> 2010-11-25 <![CDATA[ talk about mega hours programming? Jeeze Louise! Facebook app prototype working right now (we're talking 3:am Friday]]> 2010-11-26 <![CDATA[ facebook interface many hours (No this has nothing to do with the feed camacho is working on). Admin for brent to add/remove users, list page/screen to view users enrolled;edit page to update/add/delete new facebook accounts; Figuriing out the secret sauce to post on a wall and news feed. More and much more.]]> 2010-11-28 <![CDATA[ spider content, tons of admaker investigations and red herrings;emails a plenty, remeprpos fiasco. NOW showing up when it should not;]]> 2010-11-30 <![CDATA[ facebook/oodle strategies and meeting]]> 2010-12-02 <![CDATA[ blaster delete finish up. Really, more complicated than I ever imagined. I'm so glad I decided on a separate app.Best decision I made. Made many changes to accomadate rotating accounts, otherwise, it wouldn't be so difficult. Logout of CL first now, since we don't do that in the admaker 1 account per user. Do we delete off of CL if it's 8 days old or leave it alone. Do I show older posts in the poste report? Not sure what side effects this has]]> 2010-12-05 <![CDATA[ LOTs of mad code changes for IP assigned. Big one is, what to do if we can't find a match. Right now I have a column and type of reserved if not assigned. But once I fetch and it's flagged as a reserved type, then we call another API to find a match, and update with this user. Makes sense I hope?]]> 2010-12-06 <![CDATA[ Continued ip assignment and testing ; On site too]]> 2010-12-07 <![CDATA[ on site, monitoring new version eben testing with; while waiting adding templates 3 new ones!]]> 2010-12-07 <![CDATA[ early am, chasing a small bug where it crashes if firefox isn't installed.. Easy fix of course and preparing a new release]]> 2010-12-08 <![CDATA[ zach, margaritte and kelly all had issues I must look into. I was in the middle of making mods to the blaster to allow deleting of ads, so when I finish that up, I will then go back to the admaker new proxy mods, This has priority over issues from agents. Once these mods are in place, and tested, because this is *HUGE* and could cut down on posting too fast, I then will tackle this.]]> 2010-12-10 <![CDATA[ more than three hours of email answering. Really; Writing this report is always at least 1 hour each week. Unproductive. We need to change this. Either I don't do these reports, and I update you at the end of each day, or I do the reports and you stop with update status questions 4 times a day. Keeping you in the loop takes way too much of my time, and you wonder where the time goes. No one else will put with it]]> 2010-12-12 <![CDATA[ posting away for other users to trap price change malfunctioning;3 newest templates tweaking. One wasn't showing the first trans. Was missing html code. Added;Merging logging into app. I can now *LIVE* view the results more easily and see what happend if I can trap the price/repost strange issue]]> 2010-12-13 <![CDATA[ BA NOT ADDING RECORD DEBUGGING AND TRYING TO CATCH IF ERIC WILL ALLOW THIS]]> 2010-12-14 <![CDATA[ noticing that some database entries contain proxy 1 - 66 which SHOULD NOT be the case; Trying to figure out if it's a bug on my end, or users simply are not using the latest version. Is it the farm? WHo? Chasing down front desk display. Can't figure out where this is coming from. Not in remeprops.. Turns out this value comes from the database agentName field. This is what is populated by the masterblaster application as the user name; We must change this in the blaster application;]]> 2010-12-20 <![CDATA[ ON SITE TACKLING google map 1000 query limit. Why are we getting this ever? Is it the mapfixer tool? DId alex really do that many? Addressing by ensuring the map fixer tool uses a rotating proxy at the minimum. This way, there won't be the same query for it]]> 2010-12-21 <![CDATA[ people can't post to BA]]> 2010-12-21 <![CDATA[ emailcamp/spider things;blaster app finishing up changes. Testing and testing...I hate testing. Who doesn't?Starting to put link exchange on non DCP sites;]]> 2010-12-27 <![CDATA[ blaster bug. If the posted report is emtpy, we don't fill up the left pane unless we are in view all records (including posted)]]> 2010-12-28 <![CDATA[ blaster release and testing testing testing awayl......]]> 2010-12-28 <![CDATA[ reporting baby. Creating reports that shows what is posted]]> 2010-12-28 <![CDATA[ on site adding another 15 more sites for mcabe dude link exchange.]]> 2010-12-29 <![CDATA[ cambridge pads not working and fixed]]> 2010-12-31 <![CDATA[ cambridge pads not working and fixed; templates continued. Boring but has to be done brother...admaker must improve!Keep the kids interested....]]> 2010-12-31 <![CDATA[ cambridge pads not working and fixed]]> 2011-01-01 <![CDATA[ cambridge pads not working and fixed]]> 2011-01-02 <![CDATA[ remeprops fix for DCP. I asked Patrick Camacho to fix this eons ago, and he has not. Way to pick my 3rd string receivers. No respect because he listens to you because you pay the bills. Not because you know ANYTHING about software practices]]> 2011-01-03 <![CDATA[ debugging sallym and noticed that I cannot access any accounts in china/farm mode. ]]> 2011-01-03 <![CDATA[ masterblaster is showing proxy port of 99999. Now figuring out why. This value helps in debugging and must be addressedt to help with proxies not working.]]> 2011-01-04 <![CDATA[ more templates . Yes true; One template is giving me a hard time. I can't shake the similar from this. This is not easy. Every template is unique, and that's good. Tweaking is easy on most but some are just more trouble than others. I'm doing fine. I can't make it go faster. I'm a professional! Yo...]]> 2011-01-04 <![CDATA[ example:SBS_toplogo not there and this means header images are not working; Hard to trace/find but fixed]]> 2011-01-05 <![CDATA[ last week forgot to mention spider changes/maintenenc...FYI]]> 2011-01-05 <![CDATA[ on site and getting new release to work; Looking into posting too rapidly for some users;]]> 2011-01-05 <![CDATA[ ON Site again; More template madness. ONe is hard to grey outall of the tables at the bottom if similar is not there; I get a square box no matter what I do. Nothing is easy is my motto for a reason; Looking into windows7 and special folders not workin. The bostonapartments picture copying does not work with windows 7; It should. They changed their naming convention from my pictures to pictures. Don wright and I are trying to get this to work]]> 2011-01-06 <![CDATA[ looking at schedule and discussing with D and Yuan about bostonapartments.com and how to deal with it always being full]]> 2011-01-06 <![CDATA[ Releasin of new version based on craigslist changing an element that I was expecting but they have changed the name; Prepping the release and testing AT THE SAME TIME. THIS IS AN EMERGENCY RELEASE because it crashes (gracefully) but The app is broken with all kinds of templates. So this was XTRA hard because at the same time of changing code to adhere to new CL forms, I am struggling with 9 more templates. At the worst, some new templates will have issues and the troops can wait for an update]]> 2011-01-07 <![CDATA[ dumb ass spider maintenance;]]> 2011-01-07 <![CDATA[ windows7 file copy support. New CL captcha code comes up from time to time now, so must try to trap and make work. Right now, the admaker catches it and throws up an erro so the post is not successfull]]> 2011-01-10 <![CDATA[ looking into debugger tool and reporting fine tuning per johny and Yuan requests. It now shows the proxy it used. Seeing what else I can do]]> 2011-01-10 <![CDATA[ Testing away to see if I can duplicate the NEW craigslist thing it's throwing at us/me. Eben reported that sometimes during a captcha now, there 's a new screen kindof/sortof and the admaker chokes with a generic error; Posting about 10 so far. No duplication it figures]]> 2011-01-10 <![CDATA[ on site debugging 2 templates not working and showing the same walkscore graphic. This is fixed now; While doing so, added 2 new templates as well and a new tab with it.]]> 2011-01-11 <![CDATA[ proxy assign changes on the server side; templates and release for this version for days continued; Redoing some that were very similar; adding 2 second delays to china postings only. This is done with a server side configuration variable like a data dictionary and can be changed. This way, I don't have to touch the craigpostwizard object. I do and did have to add code to read new var in the app and add logic. Oh yeah]]> 2011-01-13 <![CDATA[ fixes southboston apartments blank forms. Turns out the migration changed this. I used to have a mod rewrite rule that said if the file is contact_us.htm, display file contact_us.php which had captcha. Due to server changes beyond my control, not blaming anyone, but this is what happens when you divide work and think it goes faster]]> 2011-01-16 <![CDATA[ More south boston continued. We were getting blank forms before. This was critical to fix since it's the busy season]]> 2011-01-16 <![CDATA[ tony emails and rdp testing of admaker]]> 2011-01-16 <![CDATA[ where do I start? All day on a red herring of CL not working; Late night starting anon crap; Disabling proxies for JohnY. This is a big deal because they are assigned and now mus re assign;]]> 2011-01-17 <![CDATA[ continued redoing proxy assignment; Change server code to ignore these now]]> 2011-01-18 <![CDATA[ posting many times trying to duplicate the page cannot be displayed message; This means that it might be a proxy, or for some reason, maybe CL? It appears the admaker deletes the ad, because we don't get the posting complete message. THis is the correct course of action but the admaker loses track]]> 2011-01-20 <![CDATA[ fixing rhea template on the template side yo; millions of things literally; posting not completing linerally by sometimes showing page cannot be displayed. After tons of posts, tracked down not why, but how to get around this (until later); Close out the dialog box and the admaker will now not delete the post.]]> 2011-01-21 <![CDATA[ saturday/sunday continued; Multiple account strategy and testing; KEeping up and working with eben about addressing in a roundabout way, how to work with the new admaker release. This puppy has 3 new templates and the workaround the page cannot be displayed which happens at the end of posts sometimes]]> 2011-01-23 <![CDATA[ all day trying to workaround 404 page cannot be displayed. Majority is spent posting trying to duplicate. Finally caught one, then now add some spaghetti code to workaround this unforseen scenario. Now, to duplicate again, which is the hard part to actually invoke my code]]> 2011-01-24 <![CDATA[ Testing and adding a complete dialog box for workaround while I have a breather after the workaround release, tweaking debugger to show new column for farmposting ;]]> 2011-01-25 <![CDATA[ all day trying to workaround 404 page cannot be displayed. Majority is spent posting trying to duplicate. Finally caught one, then now add some spaghetti code to workaround this unforseen scenario. Now, to duplicate again, which is the hard part to actually invoke my code]]> 2011-01-25 <![CDATA[ all day trying to workaround 404 page cannot be displayed. Majority is spent posting trying to duplicate. Finally caught one, then now add some spaghetti code to workaround this unforseen scenario. Now, to duplicate again, which is the hard part to actually invoke my code]]> 2011-01-25 <![CDATA[ failing to get page cannot be displayed at different stages than after captcha. I only get it at this point, but other get it at alternate stages]]> 2011-01-26 <![CDATA[ changed the farmpostings dialog to show more data. Changed the web services backend as well]]> 2011-01-26 <![CDATA[ ON SITE. trying different versions of admaker wich can eliminate the proxies being the cullprit for page cannot be displayed]]> 2011-01-27 <![CDATA[ blitzkrieg Monday; on site seeing before my eyes scenarios where 404 isn't being handled by admaker properly, not catching it that is. Drive home, and work till 4:00am trying to debug some of eben's logs. No, really. 4:00am. ]]> 2011-01-31 <![CDATA[ testing newest code red or newest fire fee apts going to no fee. Been reported over the last year and can't duplicate. POsted 4 ads, 2 fee and 2 no fee. All purred. Looking into sang's logs, eben's logs and harry's logs about 404 page crap.]]> 2011-02-01 <![CDATA[ More 404 continued madness, too many emails for a non manager to read; spider emails; Blitzkrieg Tuesday. Lane ellis reporting dates not working on web sites. It appears that china is posting with 3 hour advance dates for some reason. Massive debugging on this one]]> 2011-02-01 <![CDATA[ bug chase extraordinair. Classic assignment operator bug. Typo. All my bugs are typos. If I had good vision, I would have no bugs! Price change had a line if ($farmposter=null) instead of $farmposter==null. This caused major damage on reporting and updating some tables . Tragic]]> 2011-02-02 <![CDATA[ southbostonapartments, are highest trafficked site (2nd to bp) did not have through my testing northeastern/symphony searches. I notices this through testing of lane's emails about being at the top. Posted an ad for eduardo in the area and could not find it. This was due to the fiasco in the summer, getting old html code of area/neighborhoods. Will check other sites..]]> 2011-02-02 <![CDATA[ other sites fixed are maldenpads.com so far..]]> 2011-02-02 <![CDATA[ other sites fixed are maldenpads.com so far..]]> 2011-02-02 <![CDATA[ northeaster/symphony more luxurypads.net had no search for northeastern / symphony]]> 2011-02-02 <![CDATA[ northeaster/symphony more luxurypads.net had no search for northeastern / symphony; also, monitoring and testing of dates being off and why. The farm was the culprit and ensuring I did not miss anything else]]> 2011-02-03 <![CDATA[ webedit and web sites being at the top. The issue was due to server timestamps yet again, and the webedit functionality ,which allows the admaker users to update their ad, like BA does to NOW. This puts them at the top. I introduced a new bug by updating the field that we use to synch with craigslist. I am now removing this .]]> 2011-02-03 <![CDATA[ Eben pointed out one of the fields was not working in the archiving feature. It's for the location field on CL. Addressing this. This is not a bug, but something that wasn't coded yet.]]> 2011-02-03 <![CDATA[ admaker expired ads. Noticed that too many ads were showing up. Eduardo and eben were complaining, in a nice way, that there were too many ads. The reason is that the admaker was showing ads older than 7 days. This is uncessary because they are gone and don't need to be taken down.]]> 2011-02-04 <![CDATA[ jen wentworth sent me logs of a fee apt going to nfb on CL. I can now possibly chase this down and fix it, if I can]]> 2011-02-04 <![CDATA[ braintreepads ll form change. Removed it so we don't get spammed all day and night. Easy? I could tell you a long story. You use wordpress to remove the page, and you're done right? Didn't happen. Turned out, for this theme, and it's rare, the LL link was in the header file itself. I wonder if it took me an minte to figure this out. NOT. It took me literally 3 1/2 hours just to remove this link. A rarity, yes but why my job is hard.]]> 2011-02-06 <![CDATA[ duplicating fee apartments going to nofee sometimes; Have jen wentworth log files that this actually happend to her, so should be able to see if it's on my end; AUTO accounts discussions and design; SETTING up, and this is huge, ensuring that we start with just a few users with separate accounts;]]> 2011-02-07 <![CDATA[ Douche malware source cod re-assemble. Making sure, since I had some genius programming, so to speak on the 9th all day, and my jungledisk software was not updating(does this hourly), I'm trying not to lose a day's worth of work]]> 2011-02-10 <![CDATA[ Server side work, since the admaker was broken . Creating new separate table, for now for anonymous posting. This way, we will get less duplicate messages from CL. Right now, we don't track, so I'm going to force this. A different table will be used for anonposts and this will help with postings. You see if craig sees the same post, it looks suspicious. We want to avoid this as much as possible]]> 2011-02-10 <![CDATA[ source recovery so I don't have to rewrite from memory; Admaker mods;The anonposting needs tweaking. 404 error comes up and need to trap it better for this code branch; Testing changes; Adding in dismissal of acceptance button. This screen is a pain in the rump and should go away;Adding in archiving NOW feature. SO this way, a user can archive before the post]]> 2011-02-11 <![CDATA[ suggestion from many agents is to archive on a failed post. This way, it will write their changes for them so the can try again. Time saver]]> 2011-02-11 <![CDATA[ updated website search results to show by price, and last updatedate. This was pointed out by Eben. Although not technical, he finds flaws/weaknesses. If there was a sort by price on the web sites, and this is often, then our rule of last updated would not work. We need to add sorting by price,lastUpdateDate]]> 2011-02-13 <![CDATA[ mail server reading. since we want to hide the email accounts from users, we want these 2ndary anon postings to come to us, the developers only. This way, they can't beat the system. Creating in test app mail server pop3,imap classes to be used in admaker where we 1)Search for craig emails 2)Read them, and do the activation ourselves. Once we do that, we can log this in the admaker. Without this, we have no idea of the record on Craigslist]]> 2011-02-14 <![CDATA[ looking at Eben's log. He posted a fee ad that went to nofee area of CL;JohnY emails and questions about pop3 server access for multiple account strategy; John Brennan investigation into 65 Hillside being screwed up. It has 2412.00 price, yet in the admaker, my testes, its' 3000.00]]> 2011-02-15 <![CDATA[ too many fronts today. Trying to 'contain' the extra weight of either a new table for anon posts or having these records part of the main table, but will double the size almost; Posted report filtering of the new records; Eben claiming records showing up on posted report that are off market;POP3 code revisted from Tuesday night;]]> 2011-02-16 <![CDATA[ Phone conference and strategizing on how to do the multiple accounts and how to hide it. Paul C emails and investigation; JohnB emails and investigation; Jgibson emails and investigation; Eben as always, emails and investigation; Hiding from agents investigation of either gmail, our servers or 3rdparty;]]> 2011-02-17 <![CDATA[ Huge strides. Finishing touches on the email activation. That part is all working. Now adding POP3 code, from scratch(Every component so far I used was flawed and buggy) which reads from a standar pop3 server. I'm going to be so stealthy, I won't even tell you in writing how we are doing this (for real). Great stuff I'm proud of...]]> 2011-02-18 <![CDATA[ More crap, work; Deleting of aged anonposts. Otherwise, HUGE database will occur. Putting this in the admaker itself, not a cron job;]]> 2011-02-20 <![CDATA[ Putting in the viewing of anon posts so not to confuse the troops. This is huge, since we want to be able to track what is happening; Added code to merge our standard view of 2 years to a new view which now takes into account the anonpostings]]> 2011-02-21 <![CDATA[ Eben,and all testers support for latest rev with anon posts. They are all confused, except for eben, which is why I didn't want other testers. He understands the tech, even though he isn't technical since I explain it to him; Jgibson, mikeg all giving me feedback that is useless. Good guys, but waste of time. They are confused; Talked with albert about not throttling anonposts. I put the KABASH on posting the same property twice in anon and must change]]> 2011-02-21 <![CDATA[ Eben,and all testers support for latest rev with anon posts. They are all confused, except for eben, which is why I didn't want other testers. He understands the tech, even though he isn't technical since I explain it to him; Jgibson, mikeg all giving me feedback that is useless. Good guys, but waste of time. They are confused; Talked with albert about not throttling anonposts. I put the KABASH on posting the same property twice in anon and must change]]> 2011-02-21 <![CDATA[ anon posting. Showing waayy too many anon posts when in fact, there aren't that many.]]> 2011-02-22 <![CDATA[ anon posting. Showing waayy too many anon posts when in fact, there aren't that many. On site fielding questions;Looking back into gmail forwarding and activation;; Who to we hide this from? Do we slowly implement this on albert without telling him?]]> 2011-02-22 <![CDATA[ Looking into self extraction process since new testers have trouble doing simple computer tasks like unzipping files. I then get emails, look into this, which takes up my time. Eben still has problems sometimes but then realizes what he has done wrong. ]]> 2011-02-23 <![CDATA[ Emails and redirected continued. WOrking on filtering and figuring out how to determine which user it is coming from, since all go to one 1 email account. I need to associate this posting with the user/gmail account, then lookup RESMET ID,Central Auth, admaker tables and their associated CL email address. Easy stuff...]]> 2011-02-23 <![CDATA[ more day 2 day; anon feed not showing 28 records for mike gallo. Only shows two. why?]]> 2011-02-23 <![CDATA[ half the day figuring out what is wrong with anon posts merging with posted report. Remember, the posted report is code 2 years old. Going on threes, so cut me some slack. I fetch 28 ads for mikeg, but for some inexplicable reason, I'm getting an error that says This row already belongs to this table.. Searching on forums..]]> 2011-02-24 <![CDATA[ adding phil rostler to database, XML web service, and testing to make sure it works for him. He's a pretty good tester, not great, but decent]]> 2011-02-24 <![CDATA[ so as not to confuse the minds of some, adtakedowndlg was changed to not show CL posts older than 7 days, since they are expired. Now though, the dialog can come up empty. THis is my day to day drudgery. This is more confusing,so before bringing up the dialog I now add code, new utilty checking to see if they are out of date before proceeding]]> 2011-02-25 <![CDATA[ looking into release with email activation on this release. This is more than I thought it would be and why we as programmers must triple our estimates. Our estimates are always off; Trying to add new templates as well, trying to troubleshoot issues at the same time;walkscore new issue, posting to wrong fee; Many fronts]]> 2011-02-28 <![CDATA[ on site IE 7 testing;ouch;polly winthrop unit not uploading pics to BA;zach got fee property posting to no fee; analyzing logs;]]> 2011-03-01 <![CDATA[ rewriting the anon posting to go into new tab;fixing 1st, the standard posts so we con't co mingle(realty joke). Broken now....]]> 2011-03-02 <![CDATA[ debugging possible ba pic upload issue. Not uploading at times. Can duplicate 1 time, but since then, 12 so far ok. Fuck (pardon my french) but must be able to duplicate consistently. Everything looks good...]]> 2011-03-02 <![CDATA[ while trying to debug BA, added to debugger more functionlity to help speed up debugging. New dialog which shows all of the settings contents. THe left view pane (Or should I say pain)shows only some of the elements sadly. I need passwords from BA in order to see and debug pics not uploading...]]> 2011-03-02 <![CDATA[ adding sungmin; duplicating and failing of BA posts using IE7;did once, but not again;emails about adtakedown and how we can't due to synch issues; Standards practice into admaker so if they dont't take down all the ads, they get this message;]]> 2011-03-03 <![CDATA[ more templates sneaking in; simultaneously, which is impossible, trying to move the gmail functionality into the admaker. I find other issues, due to TOO MANY TESTERS with erroneous feedback, I then have to rollback my changes;]]> 2011-03-04 <![CDATA[ tons of emails, and tons of tech support which slows down my code progress; Sung choi and Sang are really trying to beat on the lasest rev; They are uploading to Ba and pics are not making it there; Tony Jin emails a plenty; Many agents aren't showning up. Investigating and found some agents are disable in central auth;]]> 2011-03-06 <![CDATA[ Bostonapartments.com authentication dialog box suppression. This cannot be happening any longer. Start of rewrite that will supress this box. I will do it all behind the scenes so the box does not come up. Thiis is how the update works anyway. All BA record updating does low level without keyboard input etc.]]> 2011-03-06 <![CDATA[ anon posting catpcha. If you typed in the catpcha wrong, you wouldn't see the dialog box close out on anon posting. Everything worked though except the closing of the dialog.]]> 2011-03-08 <![CDATA[ 24 anon emails about snafu. No snafu. Just non tech people thinking something is wrong twenty four emails.]]> 2011-03-08 <![CDATA[ the holy grail of multi accounts continued; Standard email activation code which parses all accounts, tries to match which one of our users it originates from, then activates it by parsing the email body contents, deletes the email, then goes from there;]]> 2011-03-08 <![CDATA[ BA pic issue due to IE7; rewrite code and experiment, experiment. WOrks for me; Finally after many posts, got it to break one time. ONE time; Don't know why, but nothing looks out of the ordinary. Changed some code and tweaking various ways to see if it makes any difference; Bundlling this to Sang and see if it work; Still trying to go to multi accounts; Not yet; Back to tech support emails constantly; Phil R emails, looking into, sang, sung, more... ]]> 2011-03-10 <![CDATA[ looking into lane. Turns out he changed his email address and there is no farm match, and no tickey no laundry as they say. ]]> 2011-03-11 <![CDATA[ BA pic upload rewrite debugging, montitoring. 1000 emails so I can't code; Looking into code for ammad to authenticate to CA; Tech support for mikeg who can't install the admaker; Chris salpoglou not pic uploading to BA as well; John Tinger is having a BA pic upload issue; SOME agents showing a white page during posting; chasing down certificate issue only at Jacob it appears; ]]> 2011-03-11 <![CDATA[ snapshot data. Since picture attachments are huge in helping me debug, and they have disabled this, adding this capability into the admaker.]]> 2011-03-11 <![CDATA[ Deleting email from the server. This is tricky waters and we want to ensure we have activated before this occurs of course. Then, and only then,do we send delete commands to the server]]> 2011-03-11 <![CDATA[ getting ahead and trying to put the last piece together. This is the email activation. This only works one user, per instance, this is a stupid bug only. I shouldn't say bug, but it will only activate one record at a time; ]]> 2011-03-13 <![CDATA[ getting ahead and trying to put the last piece together. This is the email activation. This only works one user, per instance, this is a stupid bug only. I shouldn't say bug, but it will only activate one record at a time; ]]> 2011-03-13 <![CDATA[ troubleshooting sang 2150 price coming to the adamker but should be more. Turns out there are about 10 duplicates for 700 huron 2 BR]]> 2011-03-13 <![CDATA[ on site debugging people's computers; Chris Sallpoglou's IE issue is due to IE 8 is installed on his computer; We must downgrade ot IE7 in order for this to work; Eben issues; Sang IE7 issue turns out to be because he is running the admaker from a network drive, and he can't upload pictures this way because you need permissions to copy files and it will not be granted the correct permissons]]> 2011-03-15 <![CDATA[ Admaker tweaking;Minor bug or really just an annoyance. One of the screens does not hit a button to continue; IT works if you do this manually. The automation on one of the steps here simply won't work . This is not consistent though....]]> 2011-03-15 <![CDATA[ Admaker tweaking;Minor bug or really just an annoyance. One of the screens does not hit a button to continue; IT works if you do this manually. The automation on one of the steps here simply won't work . This is not consistent though....]]> 2011-03-15 <![CDATA[ continued more of last 2 templates... late hours yo....]]> 2011-03-15 <![CDATA[ On site again;Finishing up some of the templates;]]> 2011-03-16 <![CDATA[ On site for meeting; Farmpostings analysis and farmpostings activity functionality; Adding new toolbar that will tell us the most recent posts by the farm in a more visual way. Before, it was just on refresh, and went away. This way, we will show the user on this toolbar every time they refresh; ]]> 2011-03-16 <![CDATA[ watching you guys' back like always. While surfing the net looking at NUNS, I use the mapfixer/walkscore tool to fix some bad graphics.]]> 2011-03-17 <![CDATA[ Bug chasing for bad walkscore graphics. The demo yesterday, the 16th, showed some bad walkscore graphics. The admaker at this point 'SHOULD" redo the walkscore but at times it did not.]]> 2011-03-17 <![CDATA[ adding sorting to the farmposting dialog]]> 2011-03-17 <![CDATA[ fixing posedion walkscoreAND blotch at bottom. This means figuring out how to blot it out, adding a new element AND code to interact with new html elements. Why didn't someone show me this before?How about agents looking at their ads...]]> 2011-03-17 <![CDATA[ More walkscore thingies; Chasing down why this is happening and fixing. Found the issue really. IT's due to multiple pics for 1 unit. To save on speed AND network overhead, I only create as little walkscore/and/or map graphics as possible. No need to create another 183 harvard ave #2, #3, #5. See? That's dumb. But the bug was due to the fact that if you had one of these as a blank, it would return the blank one.]]> 2011-03-18 <![CDATA[ location field for archving changed code to accomodate weird garbage chars; jonathan cronan tech support. He has no data for some reason Nothing; Tony Jin support for someone who swears they never posted a certain ad; Major here, the CA synch is not working always, so keeping an eye on this;]]> 2011-03-18 <![CDATA[ Farmpostings activity notification more continued; ]]> 2011-03-20 <![CDATA[ Saturday, looking into encryption. THIS IS BY DESIGN, because we have a php backend, and a C# front end, These two languages interpret md5/hash and other encryption algorithms quited differently. This is why it's not encrypted. Besides, this is extra work, and agents are constantly emailing in plain text to the farm passwords. We could also go the route of SSL,but that means our feeds will all be slower than slow. SSL is much slower than non ssl. Just for some passwords? You know how much time it saves me to see the passwords in plain text? A lot]]> 2011-03-20 <![CDATA[ on site determined to reproduce the ba pic upload issue. DID discover some issue if the archive had no images, don't know how this could happen, it would screw up the pictures. Not sure if this is related to the ba pic upload people see once in a while or not;]]> 2011-03-21 <![CDATA[ farm awareness more. Noticed while at NG today, that users don't even look at the farm posted dialog. I mean, the density is mind boggling. This is there to tell users that the farm is posting and that they should not. I will now add MORE notifications to let them know, that the farm just posted recently for them and this would increase their chances of getting posting too rapidly]]> 2011-03-21 <![CDATA[ bostonpads SEO revival all day and night; admaker polly logs claiming price is off;starting to add zip compression; halt ; adding utility feature to check validity of ad BEFORE we go to craigslist; Is this ad legit?]]> 2011-03-24 <![CDATA[ using gzip compression coming with .NET. Turns out msdn's website is wrong. IT claims to support this funcitionality in the framework but only under .net 4.0, yet the web site says 3.5,3.1 etc...Now finding 3rd party free components to zip things up.]]> 2011-03-25 <![CDATA[ SUPER bug chase. Newest admaker somehow gets properties mixed up in the list control and the DataSet.]]> 2011-03-25 <![CDATA[ SUPER bug chase. Newest admaker somehow gets properties mixed up in the list control and the DataSet. bostonpads.com web content with Calista's Dad; debuggint Thomas' login]]> 2011-03-25 <![CDATA[ Moving cryto hashing into app. First today i"m creating a uitlity to update all of the current passwords with hashed passwords. This means a backend script to talk to which will pass in the new values to the database. These will be new fields so we can support migration. Next we change the feed to accommodate the new field, otherwise, I would get lots of emails. This is the migration part. I then ignore the previous field name from now on, and instead use the new fields to retrieve and populate]]> 2011-03-25 <![CDATA[ kosta 185 hillside wrong price chasing down MASSIVELY complex because where is it happening along the way? The database craig ID is at some point, and I don't know where in the process this is happening, is storing the incorrect value in our admaker database. SO the repost will not work, because it pulls up the wrong post?]]> 2011-03-27 <![CDATA[ To trap this, I need daily database snapshots, then good communication from users and compare database values to newer ones, and see if it happens right on a new post, or during a reposts, or during a farm repost.]]> 2011-03-27 <![CDATA[ PROGESS? How about saving the captcha pages. Since I feel like I'm stuck on tracing down 2 issues, ba pic uploading and the new,but not often price change, looking into doing catpcha codes LATER on at night or another time, so as to make different dates on CL and to spread them out. Experimental]]> 2011-03-29 <![CDATA[ extrra mile here. Contiuned adding flexible, clever SEO to our little pit bull named adamker. BOO Yah!]]> 2011-03-29 <![CDATA[ Debugging PatrickB issue, working all day and night with different variations of BA things to trap the pic upload issue; I'm forgoing copying pictures to my pictures forever, or for now. The reasoning originally was because users cannot find where the admaker is. It's buried deep in the directories, so if pictures go big by some reason or bug, we have serious issues. That is why they are in my pictures. You think this would be safe. But MikeG is having issues with a guest account at the new office. So now it's going to copy to where the app lives. After giving it to him, still not uploading to BA]]> 2011-03-31 <![CDATA[ on site and buttoning up release candidate wth new test options for fee, and wrong/validity check; Starting the favorites with checkbox selections for all templates;;;; ]]> 2011-04-07 <![CDATA[ Continue favorites checkboxes, and events to see if users saved it; Adding android/iphone support to 1 templates. Time takes due to alignment, finickyness and CL rewrites html tags so looks good in admaker then looks crappy]]> 2011-04-08 <![CDATA[ creating weekly report (always very time consuming); Looking into lien's account again; Sally monteiro's account not working (from Tony Jin);Alaj's not working; Bostonparkings spaces discussions about querying resmet and providing a feed for the new improved site]]> 2011-04-11 <![CDATA[ bostonparkingspaces feed for camacho and web site bostonparkingspaces.com; adding more iphone grunt work to templates; Tech support for eben testing(good testing). Found an exception that I can't duplicate that is based on storing the passwords scrambled so to speak; Lien emails; mikeg emails; standard emails from the guys as always]]> 2011-04-11 <![CDATA[ on site; looking into many issues; Eben, jen, miriam, sang and more issues; parkingspaces feed. Talking with sang,jen and eben on how to delineate between a parking listing and a standard listing; Changed query so we ignore marketing descriptions and this now works and returns 109 records, which matches RESMET]]> 2011-04-12 <![CDATA[ on site and buttoning up release candidate wth new test options for fee, and wrong/validity check; Starting the favorites with checkbox selections for all templates;]]> 2011-04-14 <![CDATA[ setting up the templates database, I mean this is a lot. First off, just to do favorites and rotation, we need to store the list of templates, their names, etc. Then have yet another table which is tied to that user, which we query for their list of favorite templates. Then we add code which updates, add template code, then rotation based on recordset of values. meaning, we track the last and randomly or I would say using ordinals, we rotate through the list of saved templates]]> 2011-04-15 <![CDATA[ sunday, yes testing new binary for release and came across my first trap of FULL fee going to nfb @craigslist.]]> 2011-04-17 <![CDATA[ grunt work of entering in all 45 template values in a database table]]> 2011-04-17 <![CDATA[ grunt work of entering in all 45 template values in a database table]]> 2011-04-17 <![CDATA[ chasing down chris brusil mixed ad issue]]> 2011-04-18 <![CDATA[ preparing release but have on small bug of configurable logging. We need this, since it takes up lots of bandwidth to log all of that data, I want this to work and actually be able to turn it off during good runs of the admaker, meaning, only turn this on when there's issues;]]> 2011-04-18 <![CDATA[ Now that i'm populating a database on the web to debug things, I will make changes to the debugger app to read these values and help debug what is happening faster.]]> 2011-04-19 <![CDATA[ looking into strange deleaded badword that an agent got. This means logging into resmet, finding the agent's offensive ad, copying his text, then finding the property, then creating a property description. Then going to the admaker, selecting the property and seeing if WE get the same result]]> 2011-04-19 <![CDATA[ changing the debugger now to read our new log files from our public tables. This way, anyone can at least look at the posts, and see what happened visually. There is debugging statement in there as well. To do this, need to create server code that fetches the listings and presents it in XML format. Then the debugger needs a screen to look at all of this shit.]]> 2011-04-20 <![CDATA[ changing the debugger now to read our new log files from our public tables. This way, anyone can at least look at the posts, and see what happened visually. There is debugging statement in there as well. To do this, need to create server code that fetches the listings and presents it in XML format. Then the debugger needs a screen to look at all of this shit.]]> 2011-04-20 <![CDATA[ Modifying transaction web service to read data for output. This will be used by possibly the admaker, but for now, the debugger app which we can then debug some of these things.]]> 2011-04-20 <![CDATA[ where is LIen's account? Does NOT MAKE SENSE]]> 2011-04-20 <![CDATA[ More kool characters added to make the agents happy. six new ones]]> 2011-04-20 <![CDATA[ city selection STILL doesn't always work. reading tons of emails, I mean tons; swat myself of many things; Making the enhanced work better; Trying to fold old email activation code into the admaker, then adding new captcha and acceptance button things. Before, the old techjnique was had no keystrokes. All behind the scenes processing. Not any longer;]]> 2011-04-27 <![CDATA[ pets folding in. Long overdue. Selecting 2 radio buttons based on only these conditions: 1)Pet OK select both, DOG OK select dog ok checkbox I mean, and cat ok = select catsareok checkbox; Still trying to go over where I left off, 3/4 done with randomzing the templates]]> 2011-04-28 <![CDATA[ Monday AM, found out I broke this for normal new posts. So if you add a new listings, and you don’t edit it, it won’t work either. Have to fix this]]> 2011-05-02 <![CDATA[ Monday AM, found out I broke this for normal new posts. So if you add a new listings, and you don’t edit it, it won’t work either. Have to fix this. Doing release to address this issue;]]> 2011-05-02 <![CDATA[ answering 15,000 emails so I don't get to code; PETS functionality adding to admaker and to enhances; Still trying to get back to selecting favorites templates; Revisiting]]> 2011-05-03 <![CDATA[ working on another template to sneak in, then doing lots of enhanced analysis and testing. It appears that enhanced isn't what it used to be. Meaning, that it works now just like standard postings. We don't save time. It used to be faster, but this is no longer the case. At best, it DOES allow us to post more than 25 per day. So looking at it this way, it's a 2ndary account like we would implement on multilple account strategy.]]> 2011-05-03 <![CDATA[ ON SITE. Looking at 19 putnam being reposted. LEt's get to the bottom of this. I'm going to post an ad for fake 1085 Dorchester ave. Then take it off the market and see if it shows up on the posted report;]]> 2011-05-04 <![CDATA[ ON SITE. Looking at 19 putnam being reposted. LEt's get to the bottom of this. I'm going to post an ad for fake 1085 Dorchester ave. Then take it off the market and see if it shows up on the posted report;Also,continued rotating of favorites]]> 2011-05-04 <![CDATA[ transportation on newest template isn't working alll the time. Finally figured out, that the hiding/unhiding of elements is the culprit. IF similar listings appear at the bottom, then we see the walkscore/mbta. If there are no simillar postings at the bottom, the whole walkscore table/area gets incorrectly hidden]]> 2011-05-04 <![CDATA[ creating weekly report; Chasing down bug in array of templates; Crashes every now and then and I don't know how this is possible;Also, adding column of sort, which allows the users to create a sort of these templates;]]> 2011-05-09 <![CDATA[ on site working and testing the crap out of rotating templates. As stated in my weekly invoice, this is not simple shit like some people think software is. It involves many tables, many users, many scenarios, and all kinds of `states`. For instance, when the app starts up, we have to consider two conditions. No favorites have been chosen and the database is empty, or they are chosen and we have to match this up with the template picture in the admaker. Heady stuff]]> 2011-05-10 <![CDATA[ changing gears, which does NOT work in software and IS the reason why I am not as productive as I could be. All you know who. Now must stop, make code more unstable to look at brooklinepads, which is now #4. This I AGREE with Demetrios is not acceptable. Especially when it has been #1 for so long.]]> 2011-05-11 <![CDATA[ on top of reading emails, and looking into Aliji Hassn, I have Tony Jin asking for tech help. In both cases, not even close to enough information was given for me to look into.]]> 2011-05-12 <![CDATA[ redoing continued of whole template mechanism. Shit takes time, no I'm not screwing you over; Aphrodite II is not working debugging why for some stupid reason; Selectiion of default template was/is a bit involved. The old way was much different. NOt working right now; Sang pointed out the similar on last template is not working; Adding code to remedy this;]]> 2011-05-15 <![CDATA[ looking into SEO and SEO side effects all day; Updating admaker with a small tweak; Blaster revisited with new craigslist. Plotting out strategies of new blaster; John emails and debugging back and forth about the blaster. Fuck best practices. It worked before perfect. Best practices are good if you have the time; Gibson tech, sang tech support; Looking into brightonpads.com and landlords not working'; Continued JohnY torture and publishing files; Godaddy.com and a records with waterfrontpads and bostonloftapartments.com]]> 2011-05-16 <![CDATA[ Blaster; continued updating with new april 22,2011 nightmare changes.; Tech support emails all day as usual;]]> 2011-05-17 <![CDATA[ looking into Madeline issue of admaker not working]]> 2011-05-17 <![CDATA[ brookline pads monitoring (forgot some hours last week on this. Considerable time. 4-6 hours at least). Today some more;]]> 2011-05-17 <![CDATA[ brookline pads monitoring (forgot some hours last week on this. Considerable time. 4-6 hours at least). Today some more;]]> 2011-05-17 <![CDATA[ Looking a little into page loads and trying to see what is making the server slow]]> 2011-05-17 <![CDATA[ lot of code trying to come up to speed on this one (NO REALLY). The blaster. The posting works different, the configration of accounts work different, and now I have to shoehorn the new craig postings style into this. We don't have the same elements to past as the admaker. Remember? Only a few elements. May less]]> 2011-05-17 <![CDATA[ tech support for Rachael back and forth. Of course no log files, even though, I asked 2 times; Same for J Gibson. He should know better. No logs. I'm Houdini and Kreskin;Tech support for brightonpads landlord signup continued; Tech support for chris Salg and sang about BA being already logged in]]> 2011-05-17 <![CDATA[ amy tech support issues; No log files of course]]> 2011-05-18 <![CDATA[ blaster tweaking , since most was done yesterday with 2011 CRAIG updating; Won't write to database; Posts to CL just fine though;]]> 2011-05-18 <![CDATA[ late thursday (am early I guess) helping john clean up things. This just takes time. It's a good idea, but this slows me down. It's harmless really. It's 7 gigs of disk space, but, 7 gb is nothing nowadays.; TonyJin tech support calls;]]> 2011-05-19 <![CDATA[ Blaster finalization. Turns out it was writing to the database fine, but the fetching of the data wasn' t working; Had to change some sql queries on the web service side to make work with 2011 version;]]> 2011-05-19 <![CDATA[ fighting malware. NO demetrios, you don't know how to solve this. It's part of doing business. Just like disk drives fail. Just like your care wears tires, you will get malware/viruses every now and then; Cost of doing business; Looking into Sallym or Sallly not showing up for farm. ]]> 2011-05-20 <![CDATA[ Looking into Sallym or Sallly not showing up for farm. Turns out she has 2 usernames. Cannot do this]]> 2011-05-22 <![CDATA[ margaritte tech support. She can't post]]> 2011-05-22 <![CDATA[ hit counter object creation. Awesome shit Awesome. Being able to track hits from the admaker is critical]]> 2011-05-22 <![CDATA[ early in day, emails, optimizing query to fetch hits;on site meeting afternoon to discuss or should I say 'disgust'; Finally redoing templates for blaster. Against my better judgement, doing this as higher importance than hits. To me, hits is much more valuable. Every real estate agent can see this with 2/3 of the software out there. D is overmanaging this one. WHere do you draw the line? Computers? Don't allow admakers? Bad argument. You just want your way. If it's not your idea, it cannot be good.]]> 2011-05-24 <![CDATA[ eben emails and tech support;standard tons of emails; johny alias conf files emails]]> 2011-05-25 <![CDATA[ while doing template fixes, noticed that helios has no view other properties and no view property details. Added this]]> 2011-05-26 <![CDATA[ blaster,blaster,blaster. While awaiting feedback on ADMAKER release, doing simultaneous release of blaster. BLaster issue I can't track. Rotating auto is not working. THe 2nd one will not stick for some reason. Rewrote it completely and voila, it now works. This is a drastic approach engineers take. The spend time tracking down a bug/issue and they cannot figure it out. If it doesn't take 2 days, you write from scratch, and it will work 99% of the time;]]> 2011-05-26 <![CDATA[ Blaster error swapping elements issue; There is an issue when we change accounts. If we do this, somehow, it comes up with an error swapping elements message; Also, to help with posting too rapidly etc, I'm putting code in to count 4 or 5 posts by same account. If this is notices, a message will pop up to suggest changing accounts]]> 2011-05-27 <![CDATA[ looking into default pics that are not working. Sent a list to john some time ago but it has not been addressed. So to save time, created a test method to go through all the cities' fefault pictures, and create html, then document which ones are not showing up. This is critical because the blaster has many listings with no pictures and we want this to work since we are rolling this out soon]]> 2011-05-29 <![CDATA[ blaster last testing for rotating templates. Good stuff]]> 2011-05-29 <![CDATA[ blaster release today. Found posted report and deleting not working. Has to do with larger numbers on CL, so had to change integers in some places to long values. While doing this, as a fail safe, adding a right menu option to free up the listing if it's expired. This means it will simply remove it from the admaker database and this will miraculously appear on the left hand side now]]> 2011-05-30 <![CDATA[ mike swann tech support in admaker; Debugging, where I left off late last night, whey delete does not work in blaster? It used to work...]]> 2011-05-31 <![CDATA[ eben tech support, brusil had an issue and looking into his log files]]> 2011-05-31 <![CDATA[ facebook pages looksee into]]> 2011-05-31 <![CDATA[ facebook pages looksee into; blaster account not working. Case sensitive..]]> 2011-05-31 <![CDATA[ facebook pages looksee into; blaster account not working. Case sensitive..]]> 2011-05-31 <![CDATA[ taking the time to do something right. The blaster cannot and could not ever delete postings from CL. The china boys, probably never told me and simply went in using the browser to delete. That's because in order for you to delete the correct posting ID, you had to have the correct account chosen. This explains a lot. I'm now going to modify code so when a user righ clicks and deletes from CL, the code will login based on the posted record, not the currently selected account. The admaker does not work this way remember. One account, 1 password for CL]]> 2011-05-31 <![CDATA[ after CL changed all their html code for the zillionth time, today I can get back to finding why the china workers are causing the wrong pictures to show up. I can't get it to fail in 1000 attempts, so that means they are doing it because they are being impatient and if the network times out, they are not taking the approriate course of actions. It is the only explanation possible, because this is very straightforward shit. You click on a property, and the admaker, yes outside the admaker, it querie's Johny's picture server for the correct photos. It is out of the admaker's hands. WHat I get back is not my doing. I do think that John's server is working correctly though, but maybe the network slowness does show a bug of some kind. ]]> 2011-06-01 <![CDATA[ looking into flashvars support for various flash components to see if they can work with our architecture; Releasing and testing long awaited templates. No, that is not the only thing in there and not the only thing I have been working on; Migration is the biggest challenge here. As you know, these agents are bright at times, and if they have the admaker running, they will panic, and nothing will work. They will not read their emails which states clearly that they must download the new version for things to work. I have changed lots of things so the old system is out of date]]> 2011-06-02 <![CDATA[ looking into eben emails and sung found issue with rotating template in one scenario. Awaiting word on pets feedback too.]]> 2011-06-03 <![CDATA[ undoing some of the hits functionality. It was integrated into our main feed. I had to remove this to speed up our queries. The more goodies you want, the more bandwidth and tables to query;Putting in disclaimers in both templates because they aren't there. This means a new release unfortunately;]]> 2011-06-03 <![CDATA[ debugging breakwires not working. Why the fuck not?]]> 2011-06-05 <![CDATA[ debugging breakwires not working. Why the fuck not? Looking into several alternate flash players that are configurable for our needs]]> 2011-06-05 <![CDATA[ settling up with breakwires and breaknorth now working purrfect, as before; Doing the new templates continued for blaster. Hope to be ready late 2nite]]> 2011-06-06 <![CDATA[ conference call; on site; putting togther a todo list in the admaker to see what is left to do;doing tech support for Alinsan Esteves ; Found some off market issues maybe? Not sure, but 33 Hanson #2 is off market, but comes through to the admaker for some reason. Does not make sense]]> 2011-06-07 <![CDATA[ addressing two templates in the admaker, that keep showing up the missionhillpads' logo]]> 2011-06-08 <![CDATA[ IDX discussions and solutions...capecodpads. fixing medfordpads' issue with map API key. This was due to moving the site that used to be at D's house.]]> 2011-06-09 <![CDATA[ IDX discussions and solutions...capecodpads. fixing medfordpads' issue with map API key. This was due to moving the site that used to be at D's house. Moving on to tweaking the admaker for initialization and migration. The old version used 1 template and this has to exist or existing users will crash, AND, their tiny brains will fry trying to learn the new system. I must attack both issues]]> 2011-06-09 <![CDATA[ tons of email work all day. ONe thread about MLS and IDX all day, 17 emails in all and a bunch of emails about a delete off market ads.]]> 2011-06-09 <![CDATA[ making fav templates easy for the troops. Using an old table, which we don't need any longer, I lookup their 1 default template, and add this to the new mechanism so they don't cry when it's not in their list.]]> 2011-06-10 <![CDATA[ Designing a way to have camacho or anyone else incorporate our MLS sales into anything we need. This means I create a feed with 'town' params and it will produce XML results for anyone to parse accordingly.]]> 2011-06-10 <![CDATA[ MLS baby. Revisiting 2007 code. That's 4 years if you can do the math. Redoing some things so now we can show some of these properties on our web sites. I'm creating a feed with params for towns, so @southendpads.com for instance, we can show maybe 50 properties that are in the south end, then make them signup!]]> 2011-06-12 <![CDATA[ SEO madness all day continued;Release of admaker. Just when I was going to release, I noticed that the default template when you startup is not found. Now debugging how this is possible. It does not find it.]]> 2011-06-13 <![CDATA[ SEO madness all day continued;Release of admaker. Just when I was going to release, I noticed that the default template when you startup is not found. Now debugging how this is possible. It does not find it. Meetings about SEO pointing out issues with southie, walthampads, arlingtonpads and belmontpads; NOt one of the new sites is indexed very well. The only sites the new guys have indexed well, is sites I or Brent have done already for them..]]> 2011-06-13 <![CDATA[ MLS feed for any consumers; Making it easy to query by town all non exclusive listings we have for instance in cambridge, with a cap of course]]> 2011-06-14 <![CDATA[ looking into issue of anytos template not showing the correct walkscore map. That's a good find by Sang, but shows how good testers are hard to find. this should have been caught when this template came up months ago. Finally found the issue and fixed on the template side, no new release needed;Back to those]]> 2011-06-14 <![CDATA[ seven larger picture templates. Would be a breeze but the orginal source code was butchered. Some tags I needed had a zero at the end, so it would make the admaker crash example SBS_COPYRIGHT0 with a zero tacked on at the end. So now the parsing doesn't work. This crap is delicate and these elements must be named precisely]]> 2011-06-14 <![CDATA[ Crap! Last night did a release and turns out that the pictures are not working at all. I mean all pics are working incorrectly. The reason, Visual studio for the 2nd time since I wrote the admaker, compiled in a debug reference, when it should not have. So simply removed all of the ifdef debug code around picture fetching, made another release, and it all works now.]]> 2011-06-14 <![CDATA[ checking BA ads on all 6 datasets. Good for once]]> 2011-06-15 <![CDATA[ test for 15th data]]> 2011-06-15 <![CDATA[ figuring out all this MLS shit from 2007. Do you realize how many tables there are? What about the agent database? Needs to be refreshed since 2007 I think. Same for office database? Need newer data since 2007. These two tables/databases will be done just this june , say, manually because how often are they going to change. This is necessary for legal issues. YOu must show the listing office and listing agent, but that is it!]]> 2011-06-16 <![CDATA[ am/early afternoon emails, and trying to get the pics to work on mls with an ftp url. I used to download the pictures, but it took too long, so I have been trying to figure out the URL of the photos. I recall they don't want you to show them on your site pointing to their server, so I think we HAVE to download them;on site meeting with the crew; ]]> 2011-06-16 <![CDATA[ Changing code to download the pics again; Removing the rentals download per yuan request; Adding commercial properties ]]> 2011-06-17 <![CDATA[ adding additional proxies to the list. Assigning these proxies, the new ones, to the blaster accounts only;Date issue on sites for copyright. Created a universal widget for all of our site to use so in 2014 we don't say copyright 2004; Spent hours on this and why software is hard. Should have taken 20 minutes, but ran into every imaginable issue you could think of. works now]]> 2011-06-17 <![CDATA[ SEO things; Looking at the new templates for the blaster; Trying to understand why those 8 original accounts (at first there were 4 or 6) and trying to guess why they were banned so quickly, almost banned since we were being ghosted quite often; Looking into more issues about off market ads; Turns out when I was adding MLS to the main props file, that cambridge pads and some sites used, I inadvertently removed the 7 day limit to 30. This is done since my editor I can undo, and it will undo back to your last change, even if it were months ago. I haven't changed this in eons, so it rolled back my last change in February which had a value of 30 for displaying records. EAsy fix, change to 7]]> 2011-06-21 <![CDATA[ SEO workup/readup etc for 2011. Most of my personal notes and bookmarks are (gulp)2007. Four years ago!]]> 2011-06-22 <![CDATA[ taking the time ( not enough time, but too much in D's eyes) to see what is wrong with a property showing the wrong photos.]]> 2011-06-22 <![CDATA[ taking the time ( not enough time, but too much in D's eyes) to see what is wrong with a property showing the wrong photos. I do not get even close to enough information to figure this out, and I am not given the time. What is wrong with the listing. The photos only, or is the data from one property completely swapped with the data from the other property. The problem here is guessing. There is no guessing in computers. It's either A or B]]> 2011-06-22 <![CDATA[ ON site. Doing emails, project management and now got caught up, since I'm here to look into issues in admaker for several agents. Answering lots of emails; MLS debugging of camacho dev server arlingtonpads]]> 2011-06-22 <![CDATA[ good phone conference with Demetrios on SEO and the FUTURE!]]> 2011-06-22 <![CDATA[ noticed on our 1 and ONLY sales listing, no pictures are showing up. Why the $$#%# Not?]]> 2011-06-23 <![CDATA[ improving on the copyright date mechanism. Intead of having 4 lines of code, jiust one please!]]> 2011-06-23 <![CDATA[ our MLS listings are not working. Pictures are not showing up. Looking at sources and trying to figure out why. DID i break something rewriting all this code?]]> 2011-06-23 <![CDATA[ commercial space boston for a day? Doubtful due to interruptions]]> 2011-06-24 <![CDATA[ hard disk failure. Backup city. New Hard Drive. OUch Use a nice LINUX tool to copy existing data]]> 2011-06-26 <![CDATA[ noticed while doing the july 2011 spider, that cherry one was still in there. Shitbags! Removing their link that only helps them!]]> 2011-06-27 <![CDATA[ allnighter here on Monday. FINALLY saw what could possibly be the issue with the wrong pictures. Sent an email exclaiiming my joy!]]> 2011-06-27 <![CDATA[ time spent on forms from fenwaypads and rentmyunit. Where are these coming from? Don't know and the fenway one I swear should never come to me, but it does.]]> 2011-06-28 <![CDATA[ Premature exultation. Turns out, I thought it was an easy fix. It is not. Talking about the wrong pictures. I erroneously reported that I found a repeatable scenario. This was due to the fact that my IP changed, which means no pics coming due to lockdown servers (too much for a programmer trying to get work done). SO I thought 4 Barton had no pics, and the reason why it showed the other pics, was due to old variables etc. NOt the case. It does have pics; Still debugging this one.]]> 2011-06-28 <![CDATA[ noticed that rentmyunit has things wrong. This is why software people cannot change gears. I'm now stopping debugging of the critical pictures being wrong, and now I'm debugging why the featured are not working on rentmyunit. IT's because of John's cleanup, which I was against due to these things happening.]]> 2011-06-28 <![CDATA[ doing some TLC for natickpads index.html. Just production, saving my own copy]]> 2011-06-29 <![CDATA[ doing some TLC for natickpads index.html. Just production, saving my own copy. Natick Apartment is better keyworded than natick apartments]]> 2011-06-29 <![CDATA[ google panda research for SEO considerations. This is a tool to ELIMINATE sites that have duplicate content. I am afraid now]]> 2011-06-30 <![CDATA[ investigating ad takedown not working. This means the NEW craig changes have affected the delete code which I thought needed no updating. Crap!]]> 2011-07-05 <![CDATA[ investigating ad takedown not working. This means the NEW craig changes have affected the delete code which I thought needed no updating. Crap! Looking into chris jacobson tech, jamie perkins tech support, standard email reading like a software manager would do, zouk tech support of ad takedown too.]]> 2011-07-05 <![CDATA[ where do I begin today? Addressing both releases, the admaker AND the blaster to be able to post with the new tab button being thrown at us. Looking into all of the ads that are claimed to be 'fake' by EBEN; Admaker new posts method had to insert new code to press the tab button in betweent the usual posting process. That was the easy part, the hard part was discovering what was different;Same goes for the blaster. Testing away to make sure nothing was and is broken;]]> 2011-07-13 <![CDATA[ TRYING to get to the bottom of the wrong pictures we are seeeing at times from the blaster. Don't EVER think this doesn't take shitloads of time.]]> 2011-07-14 <![CDATA[ TRYING to get to the bottom of the wrong pictures we are seeeing at times from the blaster. Don't EVER think this doesn't take shitloads of time. I have new tools, that are either not working, or we are in some deep shit. Here's a query to the picture server using a resmet ID http://media.bostonpads.com/tools/query-resmet-property.php?resmet_id=55366 Then there's a new tool: http://media.bostonpads.com/tools/query-resmet-property.php?image_id=222534 where you can query the picture server by picture, and it returns the resmet ID. somethin is wrong. Houston?]]> 2011-07-14 <![CDATA[ literally 3 hours looking into just one eben email. 31 Delle AVE unit Garden has the right pictures. I saved. Looking into Tony Jin's claim that the blaster is not working. So I went through the grueling process of posting 3 posts from soup to nuts, to show it is working now. Went through the trouble of actually sending the links as well. I also got the great idea, to put the version number in the craigslist posting dialog. This way, none of this nonsense will happen. This is an obvious issue of the blaster not being updated and the wrong version. Sent an email with tony on the list (just double checked that he was indeed a recipient . Also looking into Sung Min's claim that 932 E 4th st in Southie is off market bu showin gup. He is indeed right. THat one is a head scratcher]]> 2011-07-14 <![CDATA[ literally 3 hours looking into just one eben email. 31 Delle AVE unit Garden has the right pictures. I saved. Looking into Tony Jin's claim that the blaster is not working. So I went through the grueling process of posting 3 posts from soup to nuts, to show it is working now. Went through the trouble of actually sending the links as well. I also got the great idea, to put the version number in the craigslist posting dialog. This way, none of this nonsense will happen. This is an obvious issue of the blaster not being updated and the wrong version. Sent an email with tony on the list (just double checked that he was indeed a recipient . Also looking into Sung Min's claim that 932 E 4th st in Southie is off market bu showin gup. He is indeed right. THat one is a head scratcher]]> 2011-07-14 <![CDATA[ prxoy server investigation on a Saturday. Thank you very much]]> 2011-07-16 <![CDATA[ changed the admaker debugger assign proxy dialog to accomodate blaster type. By default, you could only assign standard proxy values/users]]> 2011-07-17 <![CDATA[ while dealing with the assignment of proxiex, it dawned on me there shoudl be a testing mechanism (duh). We are blindly assigning proxies, but they might not work. Creating a nice UI to test all proxies, the report bad ones, and a simple dialog to test just one proxy.]]> 2011-07-17 <![CDATA[ Doing continued mods on renew. Theres one condition of only 1 records page which believe it or not, is very tricky;Back and forth all day about tonyJ and proxies. Like I always try to tell you guys, it's always a network issue. Programmers don't code around network issues as John suggested. He suggested to have the admaker adjust to the slower proxies. NOT! If the network has issues somewhere, you fix the network;]]> 2011-07-19 <![CDATA[ trying to troublehsoot renew not working for sang; Works 100% for me logged in as different users; Will now have to create special logs for this scenario, since we are doing all of this in batch mode. This way, when we kill the dialog, it will show an audit trail of what happened.; PM looking into phill rostelr and 215 Harvard ave appearing in admaker, although it is rented; looking into 1000th claim from pain eben about the blaster. I think he's just pissed at being competed by his own company. I don't blame him]]> 2011-07-20 <![CDATA[ Picture mish-mash tool. The blaster is sometimes showing the wrong pictures, and since we have just found out the China has a latency network issue, I'm creating an app that will show the pictures of the last 10 and plus 10 ads of a certain ID. My theory? That iit is a latency issue of some sort, and it is showning the previous pictures of the last post. This way, it will prove it. Eyeballing this takes considerable time, to look in the database, and query the pictures. Creating the database backend, and test app front end to be able to do this in 1 minute. The time it will take to creat this app will be much less than the time I have to spend, every time this happens. It's awful]]> 2011-07-20 <![CDATA[ Picture mish-mash tool. The blaster is sometimes showing the wrong pictures, and since we have just found out the China has a latency network issue, I'm creating an app that will show the pictures of the last 10 and plus 10 ads of a certain ID. My theory? That iit is a latency issue of some sort, and it is showning the previous pictures of the last post. This way, it will prove it. Eyeballing this takes considerable time, to look in the database, and query the pictures. Creating the database backend, and test app front end to be able to do this in 1 minute. The time it will take to creat this app will be much less than the time I have to spend, every time this happens. It's awful]]> 2011-07-20 <![CDATA[ renew logging to see if and what , if anything, went wrong with the batch posts. Also will add datetime stamps so if we are going to update the record, we'll have the correct date]]> 2011-07-20 <![CDATA[ renew logging to see if and what , if anything, went wrong with the batch posts. Also will add datetime stamps so if we are going to update the record, we'll have the correct date; Roster converstations about properties rentedt that make it to the admaker that aren't duplicates]]> 2011-07-20 <![CDATA[ on site and meetings during the day. Evening redoing many things. Putting in the renew, the street, location and all the other property information.; Start of automating the legend to instead populate a 3rd tab, to put it all in one list baby!]]> 2011-07-21 <![CDATA[ helping China in wee hours of the night]]> 2011-07-22 <![CDATA[ adding logviewer functionality to blaster]]> 2011-07-22 <![CDATA[ prxoy server investigation on a Saturday. Thank you very much]]> 2011-07-24 <![CDATA[ creating ads, as someone like peter, or another body, to always monitor the latest and greatest on CL. THen renew, edit, repots constantly]]> 2011-07-24 <![CDATA[ I cannot begin to describe all that I have to do. The admaker is basically being re-written just to make renews work. This works 2000 perecent differently from before. Before was smooth as butter, and everything was logical . This is no longer the case. Also, getting the new unique iD is problematic now, to say the least. New craig coders don't show us the page like they used to on next refresh. It fails forever. I tried every 10 seconds, for longer than 8 minutes, and still did not get the UID. This requires RADICAL changes too. The only guaranteed way to do this, is to get the emails ourselves, you know, when CL sends it, and parse to get the new ID.]]> 2011-07-25 <![CDATA[ progress bar adding. Since we're building renew links, based on 25 pages sometimes, inserting a progress bar, which will update the user on progress. How many steps for instance.]]> 2011-07-26 <![CDATA[ we got the batch working. Now fine tuning some of these pieces. THe process is massively complex of logging in, then finding all the pages, then determining which ones contain renews, then trying to match them up if possible...; SInce I'm going to put this in the hands of someone, they need to test this, so I'm going to jump ahead and do the database part. We are only going to update one date/time in batch mode, to make it simple. It won't match then CL date precisely, but it will give the ballpark date.]]> 2011-07-26 <![CDATA[ we got the batch working. Now fine tuning some of these pieces. THe process is massively complex of logging in, then finding all the pages, then determining which ones contain renews, then trying to match them up if possible...; SInce I'm going to put this in the hands of someone, they need to test this, so I'm going to jump ahead and do the database part. We are only going to update one date/time in batch mode, to make it simple. It won't match then CL date precisely, but it will give the ballpark date.]]> 2011-07-27 <![CDATA[ making the progress bar better, and redoing the whole flow to be more user friendly]]> 2011-07-27 <![CDATA[ saturday;looking into eben emails, texts and other issues. His posts (new) don't make it to the database he claims. Investigating, and sure enough, they don't.]]> 2011-07-30 <![CDATA[ troubleshooting into the wee hours of the night some posts, not work, and some do.]]> 2011-07-31 <![CDATA[ ba pictures are fucked. Not working at all. NEED major revisions. UGH]]> 2011-07-31 <![CDATA[ Looking into tech support for Zach browne, Patrick B, Mike something or other, JohnGibson,migration issues all weekend. ALL weekend. Thanks for giving me no life, not appreciating it and thinking I do a crap job. FU. I do a great job despite the amateurs I work with. Up yours FU, etc..... Not happy about lack of appreciation.]]> 2011-07-31 <![CDATA[ adding / changing the renew to ignore no matches, added select all functionality and de-select all funcationality. Looking into major rewrite]]> 2011-08-01 <![CDATA[ added date field, wich was not in this special field to renew dialog; Added sort. Added more validation. Morons might press GO without selecting, so need things like this. Typical iterations of software development. Test dozens of things to make sure you invoke every possible scenario, so it behaves.]]> 2011-08-02 <![CDATA[ basic authentication nightmare with barracuda firewall]]> 2011-08-03 <![CDATA[ basic authentication nightmare with barracuda firewall; onsite tech support etc;]]> 2011-08-03 <![CDATA[ On site;did some BA workaround in code to circumvent the new barracuda. It seems this new device wasn't allowing the basic authentication to popup in the code. This code has always worked. It was throwing a protocol error. So I searched on this, and only found references to asp.net about safe headers. I then changed some settings on all fetches to BA and it worked. This was really just guessing, so not too comfortable. It does work though]]> 2011-08-03 <![CDATA[ looking into and debugging the WEBEDIT. It's adding extra slashes in there, when it should not!]]> 2011-08-04 <![CDATA[ fine tuniing, once again, the renew dialog. Peter, god bless him, since he's technical thought of something that an agent would not. He realized that Craigslist if you show all active records, if it's the 5th of the month, Cl would not show you July31st if our example was August 5th. It should, but they(CL) now have lousy coders. So now, we add this 2nd pass to throw a super monkey wrench into everything. Life sucks]]> 2011-08-05 <![CDATA[ still lingering issues with the migration. slashes and/or quotes are handled differently by mysql and php with the upgrade, and it effects even dcp. Looking into ways around this. Not sure I understand why yet, but will figure it out (SaturdaY)]]> 2011-08-06 <![CDATA[ magic quotes and trying to find best solution. PHP 5.3 has changed many things, so code is broken in many places. Especailly when it comes to quotes. To we downgrade, or do we tweak code in dozens, or 50 or more places?]]> 2011-08-07 <![CDATA[ creating tool to go through database, and update every ad to make sure there isn't extra quotes on.]]> 2011-08-07 <![CDATA[ determined that today, I discovered that sometimes Craig throws a screen at us that we do not expect. This might account for some of the Ids not being gathered correctly. Is the farm seeing this all the time, and NO ONE is telling me? I hope not. JEEZE!]]> 2011-08-08 <![CDATA[ Determined that today, I discovered that sometimes Craig throws a screen at us that we do not expect. This might account for some of the Ids not being gathered correctly. Is the farm seeing this all the time, and NO ONE is telling me?I hope not. JEEZE!;; Back and forth several iterations of release. Peter found that on one agent, it was only picking up about one quarter of possible renews. UGH! ]]> 2011-08-08 <![CDATA[ tech support day. All kinds of strange issues everywhere. Sergioo, tony all day back and forth about proxies and 404]]> 2011-08-09 <![CDATA[ tech support for payman]]> 2011-08-12 <![CDATA[ tech support for payman; release of blaster ready. Yes, yes yes with columns for luxury buildings purring...]]> 2011-08-12 <![CDATA[ saturday AM. One of the last little issues, is when the users views his/her results, they are not accurate. Just to break balls... It all renews fine, but it reports some as failure incorrectly. The last thing we want, is to fry puny brains with ambiguous messages.]]> 2011-08-13 <![CDATA[ off market ads takedown. This mechanism is an entire entity unto itself. I now have to peel off some of these methods, and use them in the renew object. Right now, you can NOT take down ads, then renew an ad off market. THIS HAS TO BE STOPPED!!]]> 2011-08-14 <![CDATA[ last minute changes for the new release. Adding support for the weird message that comes up when you have bailed out of a previous post. This I cannot trap, but added code and hopefully it works!]]> 2011-08-15 <![CDATA[ office 2010 issues with admaker. Jeeze!]]> 2011-08-16 <![CDATA[ since I have win7, trying all kinds of things now finally. Burns my ass that we can't upload to BA and need to fix this. It works zero percent for me...]]> 2011-08-16 <![CDATA[ added in the about box, the capability of what operating system, what process, what browser the user has so he/she can now tell me what is going on. Their puny brains would explode if we actually asked them a hard question like what operating system are you using? Seriously though, this saves us tons of time. Chris Sal was of ZERO help and cost us lots of time because he never told us that he had IE8 installed and we spent days trying to figure out things. No one imagined that IE 8 was even installed.]]> 2011-08-17 <![CDATA[ added in the about box, the capability of what operating system, what process, what browser the user has so he/she can now tell me what is going on. Their puny brains would explode if we actually asked them a hard question like what operating system are you using? Seriously though, this saves us tons of time. Chris Sal was of ZERO help and cost us lots of time because he never told us that he had IE8 installed and we spent days trying to figure out things. No one imagined that IE 8 was even installed.]]> 2011-08-17 <![CDATA[ ba pic uploading continued from tuesday, the 16th. Change in strategy. Now tabbing to the browse]]> 2011-08-17 <![CDATA[ onto farm add new functionality. First get resmetfeed, then don't add if there is no archive.]]> 2011-08-17 <![CDATA[ on site. Adding new posts functionality to farm version;sergio can't post anything and NO IDs are ever gathered]]> 2011-08-17 <![CDATA[ checking bostonapartment ads and overage if so...]]> 2011-08-18 <![CDATA[ checking bostonapartment ads and overage if so... Adding 2 new view to admaker. The first one will be used by the farm to show all records that this agent has archived. The 2nd one will be used by the agent to show which listingss need archiving]]> 2011-08-18 <![CDATA[ hours and hours restoring bostonloftapartments. Schedule?WHat schedule. The migration was never tested and this never worked since May. Rewrote many things to ensure this is now in line with the new web2.0 way of doing things (my style)]]> 2011-08-18 <![CDATA[ adding new blaster accounts to the database, and testing to ensure they all work]]> 2011-08-18 <![CDATA[ today, fri, downloading hacked word 2010 copy to try and see what happens with this dumb ass focus problem. NOTHING is easy..]]> 2011-08-19 <![CDATA[ fixing slashes in database yet again. Old code worked for 3 years, since 2008. Now with the server upgrade, it does not.]]> 2011-08-19 <![CDATA[ saturday, on my free day, creating a tool which will remove all slashes from the database and replace them with no slashes. Pain in the ass because you can't just do this in a query.]]> 2011-08-20 <![CDATA[ since there are STILL issues with the php and mysql and slashes, modifying things that used to work for years. Standard feed we have to manually do a replace slashes, and the archiving too!]]> 2011-08-21 <![CDATA[ Saturday finding renegade/hack copy of MS office 2010 to investigate focus issues with spell checker for some users (cbrusil, chris salp) that have pointed out to me these issues. Installing office, configuration, then testing app. I find out that there is NO such issue, so back to the drawing board.]]> 2011-08-21 <![CDATA[ Adding new goodies to admaker to try and track issues with versions of Operating system, web browser and/or which version of word is installed. IN the about, there is now a section there to tell me all this information so there is NO guesswork]]> 2011-08-21 <![CDATA[ Dealing with slashes in all tables, like archiving too and the settings tables as well. Cleaning them up. Making sure that the farm is off, so wait till 2:00am to start debugging. Chaning configuration in php to help with quotes and slashes so I don't have to rewrite lots of code]]> 2011-08-21 <![CDATA[ archiving feature more; checking and adding a third tabe for debugging for me and Peter and other testers to ensure we aren't forgetting archives. To qualify, they can't be off market, they can't be posted too.]]> 2011-08-22 <![CDATA[ realized that the adtakedown comes up only ONCE. Must put it in there again, meaning, an icon to bring it up again.]]> 2011-08-23 <![CDATA[ added catching of new craigslist phrases, with logic to go to various states, depending on price change, repost or add new to combat new screens craigslist throws at us. THis is a constant battle of cat and mouse]]> 2011-08-24 <![CDATA[ on site. Debugging the add new functionality in farm mode. Breaking standard mode. Also, Peter and I both notices that there are discrepancies betweeen when a user logs in by himself, and the farm version of the posted report. Debuggin why this is so along with new add for farm mode. Remember, the other change is users can now view only ads that have not been archived, and are not on the market.]]> 2011-08-24 <![CDATA[ what else, tech support from listings from sergio, and peter via other users;Time robbing me of actually doing the work I need to get done. Adding new functionality to admaker so the farm can post new records; Changing gears takes time away from me. Stop doing it. Now changing gears because one of the blaster Ads has a value of 'TRUE' in it. SLow me down again. You want me to change gears, you get moved deadlines.]]> 2011-08-25 <![CDATA[ Noticed that the archiving qualifcations are not giving me many Add new from archive, as I call it. Investigate, and figured out need to qualify records that have only been posted on BA, and add records that are 7 days old. This means, we don't care about them and hopefully Craiglist won't increase the rate of servers busy or whatever the flavor of the month is they throw at us.]]> 2011-08-26 <![CDATA[ while meddiling with the addnew for farm, suddenly the off market ads are now out of whack. Investigating this now..]]> 2011-08-26 <![CDATA[ changing gears, which is amateurish to accomodate and react so I can work less productively. Good job. There's a value coming from RESMET that is equal to true, and I was under the impression that these column values are integers. SO I now must debug which property it is, and then recode for this field in the blaster.]]> 2011-08-26 <![CDATA[ emails and disucssions about proxies for blaster, and their accounts. This takes 2 seconds? I think not. Done though]]> 2011-08-26 <![CDATA[ fixed new bug I introduced where we are seeing FARM POSTS when we should not. Duh!]]> 2011-08-28 <![CDATA[ fixed new bug I introduced where we are seeing FARM POSTS when we should not. Duh! Tackling on saturday too, the user view. How about overtime? No such thing huh. YOu want it fast and make me have no life?]]> 2011-08-28 <![CDATA[ Back to NORMAl things like putting in the takedown dlialog so we don't have OFF MARKET properties there any longer]]> 2011-09-05 <![CDATA[ Back to NORMAl things like putting in the takedown dlialog so we don't have OFF MARKET properties there any longer]]> 2011-09-05 <![CDATA[ weekly invoice torture; Torture since there were power outages, which ruined my life and I didn't track what I was doing for efficiency and saving time which is money. Looking into renews and patrick B. Carlton ashley sends me a link and says something is wrong with the ad, but doesn't say what; Featured are not working on nextgen. Investigate; Redoing or resting code for admaker with craigslist date rollover. These douches do not show last months active listings.]]> 2011-09-06 <![CDATA[ still debugging imagecratefromstring not working? Used to work?]]> 2011-09-06 <![CDATA[ still looking into gd image libformat and other libraries that are not allowing imagefromstring to work.]]> 2011-09-06 <![CDATA[ I finally realized after trying all kinds of things that the binary long data contains slashes. Light bulb. I then applied non php techniques and used mysql techniques to the slashes and quotes to make it work. Nothing is easy or it would take 5 minutes. Fixed this issue of imagecreatestring not working with viewpics.php. This is used by the featrued listings]]> 2011-09-06 <![CDATA[ updating the blaster to have the delete mechanism not only remove the ad from craigslist, but from the websites too.]]> 2011-09-07 <![CDATA[ updating the blaster to have the delete mechanism not only remove the ad from craigslist, but from the websites too. It's not in there.]]> 2011-09-07 <![CDATA[ back to, yet again, ad takedown in the blaster]]> 2011-09-07 <![CDATA[ back to, yet again, ad takedown in the blaster]]> 2011-09-07 <![CDATA[ Bit off more than I can chew with blaster ad takedown. For every ad, there are sometimes multiple accounts posting the same ad. Ugly. Lots of rewrites, removing admaker version of takedown. Adding logout since w'ere switching accounts; Removing expired listings 7 days old to keep the list down. Took out the tabs and instead made it right click to execute;]]> 2011-09-08 <![CDATA[ general testing and putting up ads whenever I have a breather; Back to fine tuning the blaster and the ad takedown]]> 2011-09-08 <![CDATA[ general testing and putting up ads whenever I have a breather; Back to fine tuning the blaster and the ad takedownl;stoped. Lastest fire that CL is not working. We can't post anything to cl. Turns out, just a quick and dirty CL hicup so to speak.]]> 2011-09-08 <![CDATA[ looking into slashes appearing in the similar properties' functionality. Why? How? Who? Eben reported this ..]]> 2011-09-08 <![CDATA[ similar properties are showing us slashes. For the love of god.]]> 2011-09-08 <![CDATA[ Debugger tools start of having blaster ad takedowns in the debugger tool itself. Often I get just a link from craigslist. THis is not helpful at all. How about telling me where the property is? No such luck. So having the blaster do this is limited. That is, having the adtakedown is one thing in the blaster, but what is something is wrong. That's why we need a tool to find an ad by craigslist link/ID or by resmet ID or by street name and street number. We also have to determine which of the accounts may have posted this. In fact, sometimes more than one account posts it. So now we have to takedown using CL deletes and web deletes as well.]]> 2011-09-09 <![CDATA[ tech support from john kelly. Ad takedown with only a link]]> 2011-09-10 <![CDATA[ busy busy boy today. Tons of emails and tech support investigation. Most ever. All kinds of ads are out there; Doing the meat of the ad takedown in the debugger tool NICE! Creating the web service (back end)that it will talk to. This will produce one record or row of data.]]> 2011-09-12 <![CDATA[ all day finishing up the last part of the debugger ad takedown goodie. Importing classes and modifying them to allow admaker and blaster takedowns all in the debugger tool.]]> 2011-09-13 <![CDATA[ added reporting of blaster ads to debugging tool to help me speed things up and find things 10 times quicker]]> 2011-09-14 <![CDATA[ CHanging GEARS. IN the middle of working on blaster and more important things, so I now will change gears, and make my code less stable. Good call. IT's the super important featured listings. THat's less important than finding ads that are off market from the blaster]]> 2011-09-14 <![CDATA[ ON site. Pre meeting - debugging why RESMET data is still showing off market ads when it should not. Meeting with Ian]]> 2011-09-14 <![CDATA[ 1470 beacon st studios is an example of all the testing I must do. Test the shit out of all of these listings 100 ways to make sure that we are not showing off market properties]]> 2011-09-15 <![CDATA[ checking out old resmet table schema]]> 2011-09-15 <![CDATA[ new feature scheduler discussions, mockup and design ideas on how to 'spread' the marketing throughout the day;]]> 2011-09-21 <![CDATA[ on site; Red herring of chasing down cookies being responsible for seeing the screen that anon users see on post completion; Not true it appears. I delete all cookies before we post and still got the wrong screen]]> 2011-09-22 <![CDATA[ continued 2nd shift trying to get this damn release to at least help with the craig bug of showing an email activation screen at the end of posting when it should not be doing so. Email parsing dialog which will parse the email, activate it, and capture the ID. Then we post to a new web service yet to be written that will find the record in the temp table, copy it to the real admaker database, then of course delete the record from the temp table.]]> 2011-09-22 <![CDATA[ test,test, and more testing to see if Craigslist is back to normal behavior. As I did guess correctly, it appears so. Posting throughout the day and never getting the activation email erroneously. I still have the code to workaround this, but don't want to put it in just yet. Been working on that for last 3 days]]> 2011-09-23 <![CDATA[ John Tinger farm support and help tony jin help]]> 2011-09-24 <![CDATA[ Kerby tech support;Tony jin support and john tinger continued. Sent picture that farm should be able to repost]]> 2011-09-25 <![CDATA[ Syhan loc and picture server/resmet tech support]]> 2011-09-25 <![CDATA[ finishing up admaker with error handling for Craig bug of activation screen on last post screen instead of captcha codes; Kerby st paul and 68 Downer Ave having the wrong photos. Time to look into this; Nothing takes zero time. Taking down about 10 ads from eben;]]> 2011-09-26 <![CDATA[ changing gears yet again. I must. Wrong pictures have to be addressed faster. With the success of the takedown tool, I realize that these things are time savers. Time is what I don't have enough of. so when an ad is wrong, it can fetch the correct photos and update the photos correctly.]]> 2011-09-26 <![CDATA[ Adding debugger tool to be able to update photos that are off. I usually do it manually, but this saves time. Also last week I added a scaled down map fixer object to the debugger tool. It allowed a cool searching mechanism. This had a bug and fixed it.]]> 2011-09-26 <![CDATA[ picture tools. Added the reverse lookup of a picture if it's off so we know what property we are viewing on an picture mismatch. Needed Johny to provide me with some of this functrionailty. Originally he did this, but it had a bug. A week later I asked him to fix it and he did so without informing me. Forgot to. It works now thankfully. Now creating this dialog in the debugger so we can make use of all of this]]> 2011-09-27 <![CDATA[ 6:30 onward. Fixing all of what we broke. Some were always there, and others have to do with some globals that are refenced everywhere]]> 2011-09-27 <![CDATA[ fixing api keys and google maps for may sites; fixing offcampus pads not working; fixing nextgen and oneshow; eastbostonapartments.com code never worked.Added new code to suppport sales. I think it worked, but was probably overwritten. We would have noticed that broken]]> 2011-09-28 <![CDATA[ fixing api keys and google maps for may sites; fixing offcampus pads not working; fixing nextgen and oneshow; eastbostonapartments.com code never worked.Added new code to suppport sales. I think it worked, but was probably overwritten. We would have noticed that broken]]> 2011-09-28 <![CDATA[ ON SITE more offcampus pads additions. Finally closing the book and moving on to bigger and better things. Added 2 new files that never existed, all to support MLS. Since this site is a pain due to super graphic bits everywhere.]]> 2011-09-28 <![CDATA[ Screwy wrong pictures:556 Comm ave resmet:72270 was posted first with fenway photos. SOmehow, a network error occurs, and it doesn't fetch the next or current record. Could be a bug, but I"m guessing it's a network timeout. So next record comes a long and it's 445 Medford St. Apt 1 Somerville Somehow, same pictures from previous post. I have a check in there, but somehow, those Douches in China ignore this message. And somehow, it still posts to there. Or mabye it's not that. Maybe somehow the craig posting process shomehow makes it slow or lags and the previous post's images appear at times? I wish I knew how this happens. I have a check in there to tell the user that these are the same images. Maybe I should restart the app at this point?]]> 2011-09-29 <![CDATA[ blaster release with new templates. At the same time, debugging wrong pictures. So at the same time of this release, I'm putting in super debugging to catch the China asses from posting the same listing with the wrong pictures despite telling them not to. ]]> 2011-09-29 <![CDATA[ Noticed the blaster is not catching someting the admaker catches. 5% of the time, CL will at the end of a post throw up a review screen, instead of hopping along merrily. It will say something like READ ALL OF THIS in red letters. This is harmless, but we must do yet another condition and state and trap it , then scrape for the ID so it all goes in synch]]> 2011-09-29 <![CDATA[ adding all kinds of clever debuggin to trap this wrong picture issue in blaster. EASE NICE]]> 2011-09-29 <![CDATA[ johny conference call; blaster fine tuning and release. Final logging mods to make it server side configurable since it takes massive amounts of data and if we find something, we can turn it off and we're done debugging so to speak; tech support for eben ; some anon posts aren't making it to the database; Taking down about 5 blaster ads that were off market]]> 2011-09-30 <![CDATA[ updating spider, since it's Sept 30th and October is here]]> 2011-09-30 <![CDATA[ serious blaster shit continued. Pardon my french. SInce speed is so key with the blaster due to VMware et al, designing and researching how to optimize with a local database to cut down on network calls, mabye we don't show images in some situations so that we don't wait for image loads? Lots to chew on; Start of read RESMET access. ER diagrams and study to see what the tables are all about]]> 2011-10-03 <![CDATA[ ON SITE:Resmet dups investigation all day. Creating new objects to be used to see what queries will work or won't work. Admaker mods to do comparisons of different queries to analyze what tables in RESMET have the duplicates;]]> 2011-10-04 <![CDATA[ Back home for 3rd shift, checking for word versions to see if we can address focus issues for word 2010 which some machines have]]> 2011-10-04 <![CDATA[ on site again; Continued analysis of new queries and analyzing data to see why the new queries, although improved, are missing a few off market still. So far, it's about 99% where as before, it was about 85%, so good improvement]]> 2011-10-05 <![CDATA[ on site again; Continued analysis of new queries and analyzing data to see why the new queries, although improved, are missing a few off market still. So far, it's about 99% where as before, it was about 85%, so good improvement]]> 2011-10-05 <![CDATA[ change gears yet again, to debug forms not working. Migrating the server did all of this]]> 2011-10-05 <![CDATA[ change gears yet again, to debug forms not working. Migrating the server did all of this]]> 2011-10-05 <![CDATA[ more than 2 hours I tell you debugging these stupid forms.]]> 2011-10-06 <![CDATA[ $http_post_vars has no more value in php 5.3. So either we rewrite the forms, find some sort of workaround, OR we rollback to 5.2 to make it all work]]> 2011-10-06 <![CDATA[ renegad Cambridge pads all set]]> 2011-10-06 <![CDATA[ continued form testing; sneaking in time to do the blaster new query back end mods. I have a toggle in there to show the difference between the old query and the new. YOu can see if the old ones still show up or not that are not supposed to be on market;]]> 2011-10-07 <![CDATA[ More forms bullcrap; Blaster logging more and analysis. Forgot that I put another trap in there if the same picture group is being used two posts in a row, I write to the database and log this crap; Answering emails;]]> 2011-10-10 <![CDATA[ Most productive work day EVER. Anywho, forms teasing and all that testing again; John is nowhere to be found, so while I'm testing these forms, decided to redo bostonloftapartments.com. The forms are the only hard part anyway, so now that my hands were in there , so to speak, upgraded it.]]> 2011-10-11 <![CDATA[ Most productive work day EVER. Anywho, forms teasing and all that testing again; John is nowhere to be found, so while I'm testing these forms, decided to redo bostonloftapartments.com. The forms are the only hard part anyway, so now that my hands were in there , so to speak, upgraded it. Also looking into anon posting not saving the location field in some cases; Blaster testing from carlton ad that's wrong. If this ad is truly off market, then my new code can test for this. Good test case]]> 2011-10-11 <![CDATA[ on site. Finishing up lofts. Adding privacy an disclaimers everywhere. DOH! Meetings with D and Ammad; Emails like always;Blaster mods with peter. Peter, invaluable as always, pointed out and found listings coming over that should not. Most notably, some commercial properties. So we now make mods to the blaster to ignore certain criteria]]> 2011-10-12 <![CDATA[ on site. Finishing up lofts. Adding privacy an disclaimers everywhere. DOH! Meetings with D and Ammad; Emails like always;Blaster mods with peter. Peter, invaluable as always, pointed out and found listings coming over that should not. Most notably, some commercial properties. So we now make mods to the blaster to ignore certain criteria]]> 2011-10-12 <![CDATA[ privacy policy in place.]]> 2011-10-13 <![CDATA[ changing blaster and testing to ignore commercial properties. I think instead of doing an inefficient looking at the unit field, which is a weenie way of doing it, I will instead change the queriy itself to to do a where clause based on the property type. Residential. Specifics not know at the time of this writing but will figure this out.]]> 2011-10-13 <![CDATA[ ./rentmyunit.com/htdocs/forms/formmailbase.php ./somervillepads.com/htdocs/forms/formmailbase.php ./brooklinepads.com/htdocs/brooklinepads/www/sites/pub/REME/lib/formmailbase.php ./brooklinepads.com/htdocs/www/sites/pub/REME/lib/formmailbase.php ./southbostonapartments.com/htdocs/forms/formmailbase.php ./luxurypads.net/htdocs/forms/formmailbase.php ./missionhillpads.com/htdocs/forms/formmailbase.php ./brightonpads.backbaypads.com/htdocs/forms/formmailbase.php ./brightonpads.backbaypads.com/htdocs/landlord_resources/forms/formmailbase.php ./brightonpads.backbaypads.com/htdocs/brightonpads/forms/formmailbase.php ./brightonpads.backbaypads.com/htdocs/brightonpads/landlord_resources/forms/formmailbase.php ./bostonpads.com/htdocs/forms/formmailbase.php ./hydeparkpads.com/htdocs/formmailbase.php ./allstonpads.com/htdocs/tmp/brooklinepads/www/sites/pub/REME/lib/formmailbase.php ./admaker.bostonpads.com/htdocs/REME/lib/formmailbase.php ./admaker.bostonpads.com/htdocs.old/REME/lib/formmailbase.php ./brightonpads.com/htdocs/forms/formmailbase.php ./brightonpads.com/htdocs/landlord_resources/forms/formmailbase.php ./revereapartments.com/htdocs/forms/formmailbase.php]]> 2011-10-13 <![CDATA[ mad programming all day. Killer stuf with SEO and analysis. Watching every matt cutts video, taking notes etc; Analysis of current bostonpads.com site;]]> 2011-10-17 <![CDATA[ mad programming all day. Killer stuf with SEO and analysis. Watching every matt cutts video, taking notes etc; Analysis of current bostonpads.com site;]]> 2011-10-17 <![CDATA[ On site and discussions about SEO; meetings about this; Working with Peter about some SEO things and discussions; Emails galore about every subject known to man; New blaster templates; Discussions about schedule and BA pic uploading continued; Looking into websites and Polly and Eben claiming eastie does not work. They all work the same; SO if eastie is not working, then they are all broke]]> 2011-10-18 <![CDATA[ fixing cambridgepads' seller which spamming has gone too far. At the end of my rope for this one; SEO research and analysis continued to view competition to see what they are doing, concentrating on www.boston-apartments.net; Running different analysis tools on both sites quarkbase.com alexa amongst others to see what is different; Peter and emails about 301 an canonical URLS; youtube proof that my old app put the inbound link into the youtube videos and new pumper does not;]]> 2011-10-19 <![CDATA[ Many form fixing. Some were working but did not have captcha. Cambridgepads did have LL that was a false alarm and fixed the selllers form which had no captcha and was causing us pain and suffering daily due to spam. THis loser actually thinks this form helps. Loser]]> 2011-10-19 <![CDATA[ more form fixing and more SEO analysis. You cannot do both and this is an issue. TO do proper SEO, I cannot do it half ass. I'm doing it half ass because Yuan has askmed to look at forms, and Demetrios has asked me to fix forms, put templates in blaster, and debug picture uploading. The rest can wait. One thing at a time to be productive and professional]]> 2011-10-20 <![CDATA[ java was never installed with the server upgrade. Noticing capecodpads wasn't working. Then noticed this didn't work because we changed all the passwords, which is a GOOD ting for security, so can't blame John for this. THis is always good. Now have to update files in places...]]> 2011-10-20 <![CDATA[ java was never installed with the server upgrade. Noticing capecodpads wasn't working. Then noticed this didn't work because we changed all the passwords, which is a GOOD ting for security, so can't blame John for this. THis is always good. Now have to update files in places...]]> 2011-10-20 <![CDATA[ blaster templates. Please, no knock on Shari, but always must cleanup templates. Her software adds zeros to text I search for etc. You can't expect a ball boy to be a wide receiver. It is what it is. No you can't train this. Slow testing to make sure they all work. Posted one and had only 2 images. Another has no feature text, due to one of the templates(see above) had no name for that identifier so the text did not get replaced. This is a slow process. Repeat slow and tedious.]]> 2011-10-21 <![CDATA[ Blaster Templates Issues ==================== I has no images alt image some text at bottom. Looks ghetto j looks purrfect L has no map working has issue with overOCCupied showing up M has no feautres M has no beds M has no contact info O has issues with stops Keep in mind, this is in debugging. I now must test in production which has it's own set of variables as well. You then give to Peter and others and see what that brings]]> 2011-10-21 <![CDATA[ I has overOCC problems alt image some text at bottom. Looks ghetto j looks purrfect L has no map working L has issue with OVEROCC has issue with overOCCupied showing up M has no feautres M has no beds M has no contact info N has issues with stops m HAS OVERocc issues NONE of the contact fields were working. Had to manually fix all of them. Usually typeos or there was not value in the template]]> 2011-10-21 <![CDATA[ stuffing and testing more templates for blaster with sales.]]> 2011-10-21 <![CDATA[ synching back and forth to setup the 900 errors that need to be fixed. Ian is doing this but since there was a ***RUSH*** like always, we worked on production to speed things up. Doing things on dev is the right way, 80% of the time and 20% overkill. It **ALWAYS** slows down things and in fact, in my opinion, creates more trouble than if you didn't do this technique. It's like the side effects for medication. Sometimes the side effects are worse than the actual ailment. You are better off not taking the medication if it causes blindness and hair loss.]]> 2011-10-23 <![CDATA[ bostonpads.com emails and communication to ensure that we are not breaking things we just fixed an copying back over to dev server, the live changes I made during the week when I was told to stop everything and only work on fixing forms. This I agreed with 75%. I agreed on fixing the forms. I did not agree to stop everything because I was in the midst of doing blaster mods that finalized bad off market records, was doing SEO analysis and admaker chasing down of emails galore. We need to change our approach, I mean not the software person. For years someone has created more work than necssary do to emotion only. THere is no emotion in software and there is no crying in baseball]]> 2011-10-23 <![CDATA[ testing and testing and testing of BA pic uploading .Trying to detect a pattern. So far, have posted 25 ba pictures. Pattern you say? Well there must be some pattern here. Maybe not. So logging what I did. Example? Started app. Did get archive, then posted to CL then BA. Or get archive. Then straight to BA. Did the dialog box come up? If so, did you check save on the checkbox. Did you try get archive, then manually select pictures? See the variations here. Did it do it only at startup? If there is no pattern, than it's an inconsistent BA behavior]]> 2011-10-24 <![CDATA[ on site fixing chestnuthillpads forms going to system@ and others. Must change to conform to forms@nextgenrealty.com. More sites too. Bostonloftapartments ]]> 2011-10-25 <![CDATA[ on site fixing chestnuthillpads forms going to system@ and others. Must change to conform to forms@nextgenrealty.com. More sites too. Bostonloftapartments ]]> 2011-10-25 <![CDATA[ CHESTNuthillpads.com weird shit happening...]]> 2011-10-25 <![CDATA[ CHESTNuthillpads.com weird shit happening...]]> 2011-10-25 <![CDATA[ 15,000 emails. Camacho John Y and coordination with too many sites to mention; Natickpads, worcesterpads and php configuration issues galore]]> 2011-10-26 <![CDATA[ 15,000 emails. Camacho John Y and coordination with too many sites to mention; Natickpads, worcesterpads and php configuration issues galore]]> 2011-10-26 <![CDATA[ 15,000 emails. Camacho John Y and coordination with too many sites to mention; Natickpads, worcesterpads and php configuration issues galore; Oh by the way, trying to debug picture uploading for the admaker that works most of the time]]> 2011-10-26 <![CDATA[ 15,000 emails. Camacho John Y and coordination with too many sites to mention; Natickpads, worcesterpads and php configuration issues galore; Oh by the way, trying to debug picture uploading for the admaker that works most of the time]]> 2011-10-26 <![CDATA[ 15,000 emails. Camacho John Y and coordination with too many sites to mention; Natickpads, worcesterpads and php configuration issues galore; Oh by the way, trying to debug picture uploading for the admaker that works most of the time. This should be the ONLY thing I'm working on]]> 2011-10-26 <![CDATA[ creating test app and test forms to speed up the ba rewrite process. This saves time because just to get to the step of testing new code takes several minutes. Then it doesn't work and go back to the drawing board. This is how it's done in software engineering.]]> 2011-10-27 <![CDATA[ NOTE: I"m not taking too long. Others without software experience think I'm taking too long. Enough childish shit. I was at it 7 hours and I get an email already, that it's taking too long.Setting up a box that I can test this crap on. I can't use our boxes because they are security enhanced which is good. DOes it take longer to open your car door without an alarm like the old days? This way I can create a test scenario that emulates Eric and see what is wrong. WHy can't I upload? Half of what I do with eric, like adding records is done behind the scenes but for ]]> 2011-10-27 <![CDATA[ testing blaster again with 7 new sales templates. Total of 14. Needed a break from reverse engineering the bostonapartments.com picture uploading; I managed to upload 1 pic, 1 time, and I don't know why. So it's great news, but why it wokred once I don't know why. This is engineering, not programming. It's trying to figure out how to interface with another system and give the other system exaxtlly what it wants with the correct terminology and values. Finding this out, what IT wants is what takes the time and is the engineering part. Once you do that, it's programming and that part is easy]]> 2011-10-28 <![CDATA[ taking care of spider. I have jan 2011, may 2011, june 2011 and the older spider]]> 2011-10-31 <![CDATA[ struggling with multiple pics all day. Eureka late in am. Found issue. Eric issue of course. Have to think like a dummy to interface with a dummy. It now works with 2 hardcoded pics. Now making it dynamic to upload 8 max pics. Fine tuning the UI to make a spinnie thing so as no to confuse agents' puny brains.]]> 2011-11-01 <![CDATA[ On site. Continued find tuning UI to work with new picture uploading. Forcing error conditions so if it fails, the user is given a second change to try again. Good idea. Got this idea from a bug. First time a bug is good. It showed me that there might be an error condtions so I will give the user a 2nd chance to try and upload the pics. This will probably be the case anyway since Eric's site is slow and there just might be a network timeout one in 100 tries..]]> 2011-11-02 <![CDATA[ NEW feature of uploading pictures again feature to bostonapartments. since Eric (I like him)sucks donkey balls, his site always times out, we need a feature to re-add the pictures when it fails.]]> 2011-11-02 <![CDATA[ pictures are bing uploaded small. No effin' reason but to break my balls. So why is this happening. The old way it made the pictures the original size. Somehow, doing it behind the scenes makes it smaller than it should be. WTF?]]> 2011-11-03 <![CDATA[ found anytos template error while trying to post to bostonapartments. This caused the posting to be out of whack]]> 2011-11-03 <![CDATA[ trying to debug the flippin slashes and quotes issue with DOUCHE amateur PHP. Guess what. It works with remeprops, but for some reason DOES not with the admaker feed. Makes ZERO sense. Debugging the edit web not working. ZAch Browne pointed this out. It's broken;. See tech support bogs me down. Even with a middle guy, this throws you off. Facebook wants to hire 200 new programmers. Applications don't just stop/stagnate. They continue and evolve;]]> 2011-11-07 <![CDATA[ Making changes to the backend for the resmet feed so we can ignore duplicate records finally;]]> 2011-11-08 <![CDATA[ on site. Trying to do a release which fixes the off market ads showing up that should not. Instead renaming and rewrting the whole DLL that talks to resmet. Just renaming it actully so binaries are not being used that are renegade; Twitter functionality in admaker. THis is necessary due to twitter being weighed heavily on google. Just like facebook, you will share your data with twitter and it will contain a link back to bostonpasd.com]]> 2011-11-09 <![CDATA[ sucked into ghosting emails from carleton and everyone else. THen researching to explain it and how to avoid it. If I had a tech support person, or you paid for it, imagine how productive I could be..]]> 2011-11-10 <![CDATA[ sucked into ghosting emails from carleton and everyone else. THen researching to explain it and how to avoid it. If I had a tech support person, or you paid for it, imagine how productive I could be...;Tightening up and fixe southbostonapartments.com price issue. It was due to someone changing the value of beds to BEDS. Some weenie web software tools will do this. BED is not the same as bed....2 completely different things.]]> 2011-11-10 <![CDATA[ prepping new ad maker release. Giving them the ability to change the beds. ONly for admins only. SO only people like Sang and eben can do this. I will only tell Sang about this. Others willl not even notice; Moving some files along and cleaning up old files. Some references in the admaker were to the debug directory by accident. Removed these references; There was a bug in the anon posting where it contnued on when it should not have. Fixed this; Creating an email to tell troops on how to archive your ads so the farm may post for you]]> 2011-11-10 <![CDATA[ adding in ghosting help for the admaker]]> 2011-11-11 <![CDATA[ releasing admaker. Fixing some broken links on beaconhillpads and rentmyunit; am testing the admaker and releasing and doing backups in case of rollback issues; This is always done and I just fail to mention it; John Canning and CARleton ashley issue with ghosting or ads disappearing; Zach browne map issue with non working map]]> 2011-11-11 <![CDATA[ Tragically CL changed yet another thing. They put some keywords that I am looking for in another place on another page,so it wasn't finding the keyword and was just hanging, going nowhere when you reposted. Changed the keyword variable. But it's not that simple. In addnew, the keyword is different, so ti's not just change the keyword. If it were, this would be a read in value. Logging in to China/farm and seeing what all the ghosting fuss is all about. Posted 5 ads for jtinger. Let's see what 's happening . I then post 5 ads with the non china farm. See if maybe they can detect it's china possibly?]]> 2011-11-14 <![CDATA[ 2nd shift today, random titles not working for some reason. ON release directory works, but for the strangest reason, when I do an actual release, it always gets stuck on the default beautiful apartment for rent]]> 2011-11-15 <![CDATA[ FIXING gas, I mean map graphics. Kim thiele is not techical enough to do these types of things. You keep thinking everyone is a Communica Engineer on my level. Not only don't you give me help, you give me skill level below Brandon Merriweather]]> 2011-11-16 <![CDATA[ FIXING gas, I mean map graphics. Kim thiele is not techical enough to do these types of things. You keep thinking everyone is a Communica Engineer on my level. Not only don't you give me help, you give me skill level below Brandon Merriweather]]> 2011-11-16 <![CDATA[ beaconhill pads and rentmy unit changes to forms. Dev server, the production server. 2 places.; Continued ghosting reporting in the admaker.Again,no report can be accurate unless done this way by the admaker. Login to the actual account. Count the number of active ads, then do a public search by phone number 2 ways. One with dashes, one without.; Also, stupid market analysis form. NOt working on bostonpads.com]]> 2011-11-17 <![CDATA[ 7 trillion things at once. Taking down ads for Zach and Eben, fixing no square on rentmy unit. Documenting the process of how to archive ads for use in the farm/admaker; Documenting for China how to use this functoonality for them; Worcesterpads LL form fixing; SEO reading (not going to cut it not doing this full time)]]> 2011-11-18 <![CDATA[ going through every last template to see which ones don't have a ref number. Painful]]> 2011-11-18 <![CDATA[ Finalizing the ghosting report.]]> 2011-11-20 <![CDATA[ Ghost me now! Looping through all the ads; Explain later.]]> 2011-11-22 <![CDATA[ Ghosting recon more; Doing a complex scan of aggregate totals only. This means logging into the user's account, then counting up all the ads he/she has active according to Craig; then do a public search. This won't do though. The only true perfect search is to loop through every single active ad on craigslist, then do 1 public search for each one. This is VERY time consuming and this assumes that everything is in synch. Right now, I won't do that. I won't scrape every ad. Instead I'm comparing to our admaker database. Then we have the fact that you can't just view active ads. Craigslist has a HUGE weakness where they only show the active ads for this month. To see the previous month the first 7 days of a new month, you have to query even more. Pathetic new programmers]]> 2011-11-23 <![CDATA[ Crazy many hours all day and night with ghosting, fixin a broken template, SEO research and more, wordpress forms looking into for sites straglgling;bostonrealestateblog.com hacked.]]> 2011-11-28 <![CDATA[ Meat and potatoes here. Trying to merge the two lists. 1 the admaker list, and 2 the craigslist copy of what they have. The two aren't linked always, so tracking back to RESMET is more than difficult and trying go figure out which ones are ghosted, which ones are lost (very few) etc....Ugh; beconhillpads.com site map fixing]]> 2011-11-29 <![CDATA[ CRAIG is ruining my life because they are not aging ads. So their count is WRONG.]]> 2011-11-30 <![CDATA[ fixing chestnut hill pads sales hovering don't work; beaconhillpads map sitemap etc... natickpads looking into. This is a renegade site, and the 1st shari site. I don't think the new sites have this functionality;]]> 2011-11-30 <![CDATA[ last piece before release; It stalls on 1 page only. Meaning if you only have one page of active ads, it will stall, the current code base. Keep in mind this isn't proceduarl programming as in step by step. These are asynchronous events which come in at different times and at different intervals with different states . So this makes it much more complex;Also still to do and working on is setting the date to the previous month since CL as I pointed out yesterday, will not show November's active listings if you choose to show all active listings. THis is bad programming and technically not a bug. How I wish the old programmers would come back]]> 2011-12-01 <![CDATA[ last piece before release; It stalls on 1 page only. Meaning if you only have one page of active ads, it will stall, the current code base. Keep in mind this isn't proceduarl programming as in step by step. These are asynchronous events which come in at different times and at different intervals with different states . So this makes it much more complex;Also still to do and working on is setting the date to the previous month since CL as I pointed out yesterday, will not show November's active listings if you choose to show all active listings. THis is bad programming and technically not a bug. How I wish the old programmers would come back]]> 2011-12-01 <![CDATA[ adding cancel button to ghost analysis. STOP! We hit the jackpot now. While doing this ghosting, I stumbled upon an idea. NOn tracked craigslist IDs. These are the enemy of the admaker and the companies. So, I need to incorporate this functionality somewhere into the admaker, and not sure what to do with it. I would suspect, I should automatically delete them if it's 48 hours or more because it's useless to us. This has been a longstanding problem that I have yet to address and I am very happy I can do this now]]> 2011-12-02 <![CDATA[ Reference numbers aren't working for 1/2 of lino's ads? WTF? This cannot be happeing or could it be? Need to fix this yesterday or none of shit will work]]> 2011-12-02 <![CDATA[ can you say complexity? There are many issues, one of them is twofold. That's the CL bug that won't show, just sometimes, it won't show the user's renew before the 7th of each month. YOu must switch view and choose the previous month. The other has to do with 1 page of data the default month/filter. The other one has to do with when switching to the previous month view, and it only has 1 page, things stall. You must hit the button again and it works, but somehow, the logic is flawed there. HOwever there is no bug if CL did things right, so that is why you can't call it a bug in a million years. I tested the code, reverse engineered thing properly.]]> 2011-12-02 <![CDATA[ pain and suffering also know as torture. I then have to do a report every week, unlike other jobs. Bullcrap. Working on the daterollover, since I only have till the 7th. AGain a CL bug that does not show the record results properly sometimes, and somtimes it does. The current state is it works for a few agents. The others it now goes into an infinite loop. How nice. (Insert noose pic)]]> 2011-12-04 <![CDATA[ Release madness; Fixed artemis template which had overOCC always shown. If I had a test or two, like every other software person in the world, this would have been noticed by now. it has been like this for 2 year literally.; Ghosting AND renew dialog adjustments based on CL bug of not showing all the correct records when we have to go back a month. Example, December 5th, some renew records will be in November. Their weak programmers, new ones, do not show this sometimes. They originally showed none. They have since improved to sometimes show the previous month's. This is why Jasper could not see his renew candidates.]]> 2011-12-05 <![CDATA[ allstonpads media gallery/pics fiasco]]> 2011-12-06 <![CDATA[ Invalid length for a Base-64 char array. getting this sometimes when decrypting passwords. Harmless but want to tidy this up; Also, ref number debugging ongoing;]]> 2011-12-06 <![CDATA[ doing release finally; chasing picture mishmash bug again. Putting in checks an balances and logging this so I can possibly trap it. SEO for bostonloftapartments.com]]> 2011-12-07 <![CDATA[ myriad of things, which isn't good in software. ONe thing, with 100% focus is how it's done. Picturemishmash testing continued; ref number bug duplication. Not duplicatable of course by me, so now putting in every record created, and output if indeed no ref # is coming through;]]> 2011-12-08 <![CDATA[ myriad of things, which isn't good in software. ONe thing, with 100% focus is how it's done. Picturemishmash testing continued; ref number bug duplication. Not duplicatable of course by me, so now putting in every record created, and output if indeed no ref # is coming through; SEO on lofts to get ready for launch; Wordpress new forms I found that are really good and spreading throughout sites;sspads will be 1st guineau pig; THIS is for 2 days. These tasks are all on stickies on monitor, and this is what I am trying to do for next 1-3 days, if I can get tot hem. Bug chasing is sometimes luck. SOmetimes, it takes 20 minutes and you find it. IN not duplicatable bugs, it's not so quantifiable. The picture mishmash only happens on the farm, so don't know how it happens]]> 2011-12-08 <![CDATA[ worcester pads contact forms with CJform plugin. VEry nice]]> 2011-12-09 <![CDATA[ worcester pads contact forms with CJform plugin. VEry nice]]> 2011-12-09 <![CDATA[ worcester pads contact forms with CJform plugin. VEry nice; quick and NICER captcha for current sites that aren't camacho ready yet..]]> 2011-12-09 <![CDATA[ fixing the slashes thingie at last due to quotes and server upgrades. It appears I needed yet ANOTHER check to ensure it's not added to the database with multiple slasshe]]> 2011-12-09 <![CDATA[ taking down ads from blaster]]> 2011-12-09 <![CDATA[ installing new 2011 type captchas on straggler sites like cp, where we keep getting sellers spam due to no captcha. In the meantime, updating to non-2004 style so we don't look like we are years behind other sites and realty companies;SEO analysis for others on top of us before we go further]]> 2011-12-09 <![CDATA[ wordpress signup ll forms etc issues. Mail server issues that we had a hell of a time when john did the server upgrade. FUck if it didn't take ammad and I all day to change all kinds of signup forms. He sucks. I have no issue on other servers. Only John's servers has these simple issue problems. Every web host in the world allows you to send mail, and without issue. Now, it's big giant issue and I now have to use my own mail servers to configure this new plugin. Again, everyone else does it well and professionally.]]> 2011-12-10 <![CDATA[ wordpress signup ll forms etc issues. Mail server issues that we had a hell of a time when john did the server upgrade. FUck if it didn't take ammad and I all day to change all kinds of signup forms. He sucks. I have no issue on other servers. Only John's servers has these simple issue problems. Every web host in the world allows you to send mail, and without issue. Now, it's big giant issue and I now have to use my own mail servers to configure this new plugin. Again, everyone else does it well and professionally.]]> 2011-12-11 <![CDATA[ wordpress backup and plugins and learning. To backup, there's 2million tutorials. Found one that works. Went through several and some were broken, not working on this wordpress version. Maintaining 1 wordpress site is a full time job]]> 2011-12-11 <![CDATA[ back to SEO, or so I thought. THat is what Demetrios is telling me to focus on. I am doing wordpress forms, cleaning up all the sites to have feedback forms that work; Then I was going to start back on SEO, which is a full time job mid week but now the picture mishmash was told to prioritize. This is from Yuanny. So I need one person to prioritize not 2. Too many bosses equals a fucked up company]]> 2011-12-12 <![CDATA[ wordpress and SEO. Since my customer on the cape (Yes yuanny, I'm good at SEO. Think how good I would be if I did it full time and nothing else)has wordpress site and he's on 1st page and #3. There are more than 100 competing with me for these keywords and I beat them all using a wordpress technique I invented, and maybe others too. So since I was doing some wordpress contact forms, and boston-apartments.net was beating us, it stands to reason to figure out what they are doing well.]]> 2011-12-13 <![CDATA[ addressing blaster refresh issue that I have ignored, because someone thinks (both of you now think) that everything is taking too long. So I ignore things, and get back to other tasks because to you guys, it appears I'm more productive by ignoring finishing one taskt, then go off and do another task. No more. I'm staying with this task, until complete. YOu will wait for a form that has a typo. You will wait because it is the professional and mature thing to do. We are not in junior high. We are adults. We are not impatient]]> 2011-12-13 <![CDATA[ back to bostonrealestateblog.com backing up, then creating a sub domain on my server to make sure everyting is in order. Then after that works (not there yet)will move to our servers so we won't get hacked again,errr...hopefully]]> 2011-12-14 <![CDATA[ bostonrealestateblog issues with moving of course. Is anything easy? Yeah turning on the TV? Even that takes 20 seconds now...]]> 2011-12-15 <![CDATA[ bostonrealestateblog issues with moving of course. Is anything easy? Yeah turning on the TV? Even that takes 20 seconds now...]]> 2011-12-15 <![CDATA[ fixing ll forms on loftapartments. Remember this was phase II of the sacrificial lamb so have to fix things first, then SEO and backlink , then submit to google. It's all out of alignment using firefox but works on chrome, IE]]> 2011-12-15 <![CDATA[ live_help.htm on symphonypads had revere link. fixed on dev and prod server]]> 2011-12-16 <![CDATA[ live_help.htm on symphonypads had revere link. fixed on dev and prod server]]> 2011-12-16 <![CDATA[ forms in general with modern captcha in a few places. bostonpetpads.com started, worcesterpads, as lamb, LL forms to add. Get this right, and we have it for all WP sites]]> 2011-12-16 <![CDATA[ zach browne and message he was getting Don't forget to copy email text into the admaker later when you activate the ad]]> 2011-12-16 <![CDATA[ more wordpress backing up than I ever imagined...Got local subdomain working for bostonrealestateblog.com . Sick of being hacked. Tell you that!]]> 2011-12-17 <![CDATA[ wordpress installation and upgrade for other sites. Ouch. Not cooperating. Did finish though bostonrealestateblogl.com though. NEed to make urlrewriting work though]]> 2011-12-18 <![CDATA[ I go through all this work. Setting up a dialog to be able to do the email activation, and find the URL, activate, and basically help with all the mundane tasks for this new CL bug. I then can now activate the URL and actually parse and get the unique ID. Just when I'm testing what happens? Their (CL) bug goes away. WTF? However, this is the 2nd time this has happened, so I'm going to add this to the admaker. SO if this happens again, the agents will be able to do the email activation within the admaker, and the admaker will be able to synch the ad, which is the most critical thing. Syncrhonization so we can track it of course...]]> 2011-12-20 <![CDATA[ trying to come up with a painless way to work around the new craig bug. I could add these records to a temporary database, then after an agent activates it, I then move it to the real admaker database, with the new ID I parsed and scraped from the email body]]> 2011-12-21 <![CDATA[ emails and other things for release on Friday, the 23rd; Reed and sang tell me it does not work but give me no data to work with. Sang wasn't thinking, but most of the time he does. Most of the time Ree'ds email is commonplace. They waste my time by not giving me any information do go on; It works for me flawlessly]]> 2011-12-25 <![CDATA[ CL douche baggery all day continued; Torture man. started late at night]]> 2011-12-26 <![CDATA[ CL douche baggery all day continued; Mapfixer emails and training for Kim Thiele]]> 2011-12-27 <![CDATA[ email activations continued forever? Now realizing that we must update the date, not when the original post happened. You then use the new functionality to paste the email, but then, the date is NOW, not when the oringinal email went out.]]> 2011-12-28 <![CDATA[ goat repost and post workaround. Some call it a cow. A cow?]]> 2011-12-28 <![CDATA[ on site. Meetings, torture all day, night about Cl bug still. Email activation won't work all the time because of paste issues. NEeds to be text pasting...;beaconhillpads about site map fixing on dev and pros server]]> 2011-12-28 <![CDATA[ KIJIJI start of reverse engineering]]> 2011-12-29 <![CDATA[ debugging all kinds of weird things happening due to merging of the admaker with activations and other things]]> 2011-12-30 <![CDATA[ admaker analyis of damage to adamker tables with douch CL screwing up my data big time. Kijji analysis]]> 2011-12-30 <![CDATA[ 16 emails from agents telling me issues without one log file;Contacting sang about the difference in the binary I gave him, and the latest release. These work differently; Too many project manager emails when I'm trying to work;]]> 2012-01-02 <![CDATA[ 51 Dell #3 for patrick B. Says his changes do not show up when he did RESMET changes...]]> 2012-01-02 <![CDATA[ julian amando emails and torture. FINALLy got log files to look into..]]> 2012-01-02 <![CDATA[ new table activations now needs removal ability. New code. New queries. New web services or 'backend' to do the database work. On and on it goes...]]> 2012-01-03 <![CDATA[ log files for activations. Needed for debugging when dumb ass idiots say things like My admaker isn't working. Torture]]> 2012-01-03 <![CDATA[ creating email activation database delete to clear up things. Toggling, which is big so users do not have to view email activation emails. This slows them down and may not be needed eventually]]> 2012-01-03 <![CDATA[ Looking into bostonapartments facebook bleeding edge technology? NO!]]> 2012-01-03 <![CDATA[ torture all meeting having less intelligent, less skilled people telling me what to do becuase they are paying me. Just because you are paying me, does not make you right. I won't build things the wrong way just because you are paying me. I build things correctly because that is the right way to do things; Release continued, and then ghosting, ghosting, ghosting all day and night. 200 emails, when I don't have time for them. Then you ask me to code, manage 7 projects, talk to kim thiele, debug the admaker all day? That's more hours in the day than human being has]]> 2012-01-04 <![CDATA[ kim thiele and mapfixer waltthrough/torture. Note personal comments are not to be told. This would be immoral and wrong. I now have to write an application installer because she doesn't know how to unzip it. ONce this is done, OK. 50% more emails now that i have to use the company webmail; Taking care of syhan and setting him up for anonposting. He might be banned.... Most time spent on admaker. Making changes to email activation to make it more user friendly. The rush job confused users and they were using it wrong all over the place.]]> 2012-01-05 <![CDATA[ More admaker woes. Doing a release for everyone, mostly tony because the login mechanism was being skipped to save time of course, and the farm was left out of the action. THe side effect was the login wasn't working at times. This has to be, and has been tested forever. Testing takes the most of my time. Even with a tester, I have to do this much amount of testing. I know software. SDLC]]> 2012-01-06 <![CDATA[ OVERTIME?? Researching ways to get less ghosted. Saturday, still waiting to post my Friday Release but John's fix isn't working; Kim thiele and map fixer tech support; Doing a release so I don't get tortured with I don't know which folder the file is in.; ]]> 2012-01-07 <![CDATA[ Back to release. Noticed that my code that now creates alias email addresses, to work with the alias technique needs to be randomized; Change index on this table to be unique by email so the nightly cron job will not choke ]]> 2012-01-08 <![CDATA[ tons of emails about the latest revision and how to use it. Others are weeks behind instruction and are amazed that when they don't activate the ads in the admaker, they amazingly still appear on the left hand side.]]> 2012-01-09 <![CDATA[ all day trying to experiment with public proxy for testing...]]> 2012-01-09 <![CDATA[ tallk at company meeting. Contined]]> 2012-01-17 <![CDATA[ putting finish on ghost deleting right from the ghost dialog; Issue of course because I allow non tracked to try and delete and it goes to craigslist and shit happens...Fix that; Then realize that we now must update the column to reflect this so one does not have delete this one again; chinese website issues back and forth; Bog gao, wang etc;]]> 2012-01-17 <![CDATA[ Company meeting; Talking about using the admaker correctly; release try; Failed too much distraction; meeting with john about servers and proxies; night called bog @midnight. Discussed things and 1st base constantly. Greener than a greenhorn...]]> 2012-01-17 <![CDATA[ tech support I should not have to be doing; For jason bbp, jamie ugly charlotte,. Amazing how I give her and Madeline more tech than others...]]> 2012-01-18 <![CDATA[ Jason Pavlow is so screwed up his data, I'm stunned. Trying to figure out why]]> 2012-01-18 <![CDATA[ tech support I should not have to be doing; For jason bbp, jamie ugly charlotte,. Amazing how I give her and Madeline more tech than others...]]> 2012-01-18 <![CDATA[ changed the helll out of the blaster app. Added images on left to notify if already posted, changed all the back end to accomodate future gmail multiple accounts and present 1 account for testing; Changed proxy mechanism to allow non NG office account assignment]]> 2012-01-18 <![CDATA[ website removal bug. RUSH job like everything has been done since 2004. Learn software takes 5 times you think an you will NEVER be unhappy. Learn and evolve. Never wanted to do the web only. Bad idea. Now realized that with this stupid idea, that we can't take these ads down because the RUSH job to implement this that day, mind you a day, I forgot about the 100 places you must account for it. One of them was off market. So now, we have to make sure it's added to the ad takedown, and this object now becomes 700 times more complicated. Let's rush this too. Hire another devloper. HOw about I compare this job, to ones on craigslist. I wonder if they are better.]]> 2012-01-20 <![CDATA[ looking for the HOLE due to rush job. Please. I don't suck. I make mistakes only when rushed. ONLY when rushed. Ironic how impatient you are and yet it's just the opposite]]> 2012-01-20 <![CDATA[ spending the majority of the afternoon fixing archive records being gone. Don't know if the mysql database got corrupted or not. Never seen anything like it]]> 2012-01-20 <![CDATA[ putting finish on ghost deleting right from the ghost dialog; Issue of course because I allow non tracked to try and delete and it goes to craigslist and shit happens...Fix that; Then realize that we now must update the column to reflect this so one does not have delete this one again; chinese website issues back and forth; Bog gao, wang etc;]]> 2012-01-23 <![CDATA[ Looking into blaster issues and things that aren't working per tony's emails. Investigating how lane's boster email should work. It shouldn't. THere are holes there I allow. Ebay classifieds code revisit, then got sidetracked with other emails and ghosting recon;]]> 2012-01-23 <![CDATA[ Earl AM(up early for a change)exchanging texts with amine about flagging. Flagging is latest Craigslist issue. Shit, fuck....It appears 80 of his ads have been flagged. Not good; Trying to understand how this could happen. Browsing all the forums about this and the web; Need to change the ghost report to be ghost/flag and show different state. Flagged, ghosted or OK; I basically just have 2 states. OK, or assume ghosted. This is wrong]]> 2012-01-24 <![CDATA[ ON site. Checking for flagged ads. Option in ghost dialog. It now checks for ghosts and for flagging; ]]> 2012-01-25 <![CDATA[ MORE CL nonsense. They now have a bug where the captcha code does not show. I now have to modify the admaker, the blaster etc...GULP! ]]> 2012-01-26 <![CDATA[ eben tech support, eben phone support. He's helfpul very often but the interruptions won't stop. Margot Hinchey, tons of other agents tech support. ]]> 2012-01-26 <![CDATA[ been trying to insert ebayclass all week. Then fiasco after fiasco. Latest one last night of course is now CL is showing no catpcha codes. If you can believe that. The admaker though has no knowledge of these renegade posts so next week will be tons of calls and emails about why my posted report is screwed up; Had to modify the blaster too completely to look for a skipped catcha screen Unbelievable!]]> 2012-01-27 <![CDATA[ Sarah K tech support, Christ Brusil tech support, emails galore from Saturday and sunday. Can I have on day off? tony J emails, questions, eben emails, blaster thought and analysis and testing, plan and project approach to redoing the admaker unique ID grabbing. They allow a better, smoother way to capture the uniqueID so started laying out the code needed in printouts all over my floor. Blaster needs this too. This will speed all posts up and make everything 3-10 seconds faster and decrease lost IDs dramatically.]]> 2012-01-29 <![CDATA[ similar postings has massive issues with the slashes due tot he august upgrades for security. That's why I don't like to change anything; Addressing web delete bug where it crashes. There's a workaround for now, where they simply go into the web edit and delete it in there;Emails, emails, emails,]]> 2012-01-30 <![CDATA[ I will just say that this was the longest day in my life. Thanks for not appreciating my hard work]]> 2012-01-31 <![CDATA[ 1 trillion things. ARchive isn't working. Sometimes it does not save the title, other times it shows garbage. Not sure what it is. Now many ads show in the spell checker the letter R for some reason. Renew investigation continued. Long email about this but the date rollever issue with Craigslist is worse than before; Last minute fine tuning for the ebay classifieds;]]> 2012-02-01 <![CDATA[ late AM blater testing of ads to see what I can find out in speed; finding out how some proxies are also assigned to standard users. might be a bug or I could have done this manually;]]> 2012-02-02 <![CDATA[ example of software being harder than anything else. Trouble uploading pictures. why? turns out ebayclass does not like .bmp files and our crappy picture server, which should convert everyhing to jpg, a standard, not bmp a Microsoft douchebaggery, then..I digress. Now I have to add all kinds of checks in there. Instead of a loop, it now has to check every iterance for this, then add it with more complex code. Not superhuman code, but not easy clean reading either and more lines of code. Then what if they are all bmp? Now we must detect his too, with a new variable, then code by typing yet again which takes time a new message to the user that they cannot post this. See how relying on other people's software, no matter how good, makes you have to do extra work? There should be no bmp files. No don't send an email off to John. That' just ludicrous micromanagement. It' done. The pic server is the way it is. We work around this. I n a perfect world, and most picture servers, you have them all the same consistency]]> 2012-02-02 <![CDATA[ proxy flipping. Since I have to wait for John for the ebay access to proxies, I have to figure out how to unstick the proxies. Since we don't have access due to pain the ass restrictions for security,which I guess is necessary, I can't change the proxy in a super deluxe easy manner. Instead we use a very Klugy method to do this. The problem is that once you set a proxy, you can't unset it. so, we now have to be married to a proxy for the life of the application. Looking at clever ways to work around this.]]> 2012-02-02 <![CDATA[ proxy maintenance gone awry. Duplicate entries now, blaster being assigned non-blaster type proxies...ugh]]> 2012-02-02 <![CDATA[ emails, add as favorites for farm, ebay, renew date rollover issue, emails, phone calls, emails, date rollover, proxy issues. Yeah. Watching days of our lives. I wish...]]> 2012-02-02 <![CDATA[ renew dialog date rollover. Ouch, crap, shit. Pardon my french. But need to show 100 ways why ads are being rejected. One of them is not working for some reason. It's always something. Then what's up with sometimes the browser window will work with last month's date, and sometimes not?]]> 2012-02-03