News:
[Keith] [4/24/2010]
We're now about halfway through with the event registration upgrade, and normally I don't post until the coding's done; but wow, I'm
starting to feel pretty good about this change! The changes are too numerous to go into, but they involve a simplification of event
editing UI, a more robust model for events and activities, new editable content in the event itself, an improved look and feel for the registration
page itself; and some slick-as-hell UI that makes me want to sign up for a few events.
More later; it remains to add support for complex events (like omniums) and a couple of other minor surprises to improve the user experience.
[Keith] [4/15/2010] We've been steadily improving madsync's feature
list and trimming down our bug list. We've added a bunch of calendar improvements to make things more personalizable (and therefore more useful to you),
and shortly we will be upgrading our events system, which works great but needs to be slightly more flexible.
One thing in particular we're
really excited about is the new shorthand URL server we've built, mdsnc.us. We're leveraging it for the events pages so far, but there's much more to come.
Oh yeah - and our brochure page looks different!
[Keith] [2/21/2010] MadSync's permissions have been overhauled to what is
(hopefully) a less-confusing model/interface. The new control will default to hiding custom role-base permissions, but allow you to edit these at any time. The same model will also now apply to
visibility of forums and of page. Flexibility and simplicity should both improve once we release to production. It's in the final stages of testing but should be out in a matter of days.
[Keith] [1/25/2010] MadSync has just been updated
to run clubs and events for sports other than cycling. Running/track is now fully supported and we will be adding event-wizard support for other sports in the coming months
(in the meantime, feel free to choose sports from your edit club page). This release, which also brings improved forum permissions and payment support, brings the TeamOS software to milestone 1.1.0.
[Keith] [1/17/2010] Happy New Year! MadSync TeamOS 1.0.8 was deployed tonight. We've been
steadily providing bug fixes and minor features for the past two months, in between work Keith has been doing to
maintain and improve the ACA site. The holidays, and a few too many projects, have not kept us from making the important updates; but
they have slowed some of our intended feature-adds. This should change soon.
[Keith] [10/4/2009] MadSync TeamOS 1.0.0 was deployed tonight! Wow, what a lot of work ... The changes are
relatively minor from the user perspective, but under the hood there has been a massive retooling of almost everything in the application, changes to literally 1000s of pages of code.
Highlights include:
- Ability to sign a user up for more than one club.
- Improved events tools.
- AJAX interfaces for many of our most intensive pages (the slowest pages in the beta test are now some of the fastest in the new release)!
What we're working on next:
5/15/2010 Improved social media integration.
5/1/2010 MadSync event hosting upgrades.
1/25/2010 Generalize the application to non-cycling clubs. DONE
2/15/2010 Add customizable page-view permissions to custom roles. DONE
3/15/2010 MadSync address awareness for event selection. DONE
4/1/2010 Various Calendar improvements. DONE