Clan Keeper zooms ahead! 
Monday, November 9, 2009, 12:07 PM
Posted by Alison
Today I spent my day debugging Clan Keeper! First of all, I had to add a lot to the warrior functions, as they were very buggy. Second, I added a little label to the theme control panel that states the current theme. Third, I fixed a problem I was having with a save-to-text-file function. All I did was not close the writer! Was that stupid or what? I love debugging when it's easy, but I like GUI design a lot better. I was reading the website of another Java developer and he commented, "I know you think it's crazy, but to me, GUI is beautiful." I don't think it's crazy. Seeing a beautiful GUI, even without one single useful function, makes it seem worthwhile. The joys of programming...:)
Anyway, today I thought that I will want to add Clan Keeper to the big download sites like SourceForge and Download.com. So guess what, when I read their terms and conditions, 1) you have to get an activation email and 2) you have to be 13 or older to just create an account. If you're under 18, you need permission from a "Parent or Guardian". Splat the websites! People on the Internet either discriminate against non-teenagers or are paranoid about security! You bet I will never do that unless I need to! I think that if I get my dad to make the account and put the stuff on, I'll be getting around it. It's not like anyone is going to be bringing me to court about it.
Oh and yes, I'm going to make a Clan Keeper page on my website. A whole subdirectory: peternoonan.net/Alison/ClanKeeper. So when I get it on SourceForge, I won't have to stoop as low as all those other developers, splat them, that don't have websites. I will put everything about Clan Keeper on it and offer a beta (once I can get database packaging all set up). Right now everything's going great except for Watch Clan. Splat Watch Clan. I'll fix it someday.
I also thought up a grand six-item list of features to add to Clan Keeper, but I am definitively going to wait until a 2.0 or 3.0 release to implement them. Just think, I'll be able to offer multiple releases of Clan Keeper! I should add a Clan-Keeper only forum.
This entry is getting a bit long, but I have to say something funny: my part of this website is far bigger than either my dad's or my sister's. Now I am seriously thinking about asking for a domain for Christmas that support servlets, PHP 5, and databases. That would be such a luxury.

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