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The Database goes live!!!
06. Nov 2007 at 19:47
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The BoyActors main site with database is now live - at (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

There's still quite a bit to do - there's no BA User Reviews or Ratings, no Galleries (or Subtitles), no search facility, no links page - and you can't login yet...

But the main database is there.

Let me know if you find any errors (hopefully there aren't, but I did spot a couple of errors from parsing the original data when checking a few things)
  
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Reply #1 - 07. Nov 2007 at 11:36
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Excellent. Looks great!
You've made some really good changes.
I'm looking forward to the 'completed' product.
  
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Reply #2 - 08. Nov 2007 at 05:59
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Noticed actors without a birthdate are registering as being born on November 30, 1999.

The display of the database does look very nice. I'm really glad to see it taking shape again.

  
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Reply #3 - 08. Nov 2007 at 19:41
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Zabladowski wrote on 08. Nov 2007 at 05:59:
Noticed actors without a birthdate are registering as being born on November 30, 1999.


They're all corrected - their birthdate is now shown as Unknown.

I don't know why 30 Nov 1999 got picked as the default date resulting from the parse error - 1 Jan 1970 would have been a more logical date...

  
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Reply #4 - 10. Nov 2007 at 21:42
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Thanks for the quick response on that error, Quantum.  Smiley

It appears that all those performers where only a year of birth is in our records have been given November 30 birth dates as well.



are examples of this.
  
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Reply #5 - 10. Nov 2007 at 22:25
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Zabladowski wrote on 10. Nov 2007 at 21:42:
Thanks for the quick response on that error, Quantum.  Smiley

It appears that all those performers where only a year of birth is in our records have been given November 30 birth dates as well.


OK, I've set their dates of birth to year only...

  
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Reply #6 - 21. Nov 2007 at 22:01
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Quantum wrote on 06. Nov 2007 at 19:47:
Let me know if you find any errors (hopefully there aren't, but I did spot a couple of errors from parsing the original data when checking a few things)


You mean like this picture covering the text?
(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

How come no attachments in this Forum?
  
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Reply #7 - 21. Nov 2007 at 23:12
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OK, I've sorted that...

There are a handful others where the picture is slightly wider than I would have liked but as they're not actually covering the text I probably won't do anything about it...

The new code I'm writing will automatically scale down oversized images that are uploaded, so it won't be a problem for any new poster images...

And there are no attachments in this forum as I don't want this forum filling up with pictures Smiley
  
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Reply #8 - 20. Dec 2007 at 22:10
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Doesn't look like any new movies have been added since August 2007... lack of time, or some sort of problem?
  
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Reply #9 - 20. Dec 2007 at 22:30
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TheSwede wrote on 20. Dec 2007 at 22:10:
Doesn't look like any new movies have been added since August 2007... lack of time, or some sort of problem?


That would have been when the previous server went down.

For the move to the new server, which happened a couple of months ago, due to the switch to a database driven system (rather than a flatfile drive system), all the code is being re-written from scratch - and that takes time.

That said though, all the code for adding and editing movies and TV shows is now written, as is most of the code for adding and editing actors. (As I said in the other post, this code would probably have been finished by now had I not had a hard drive die on me...). Once the code for adding and editing actors is finished, then adding new entries to the database should recommence.
  
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Reply #10 - 20. Dec 2007 at 22:52
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Well, that explains it alright!  I know about the crash... and I know it can be time-consuming to write good code... so believe me when I say: "You're doing a great job and I'm waiting anxiously for each new snippit!"  Bravo!
  
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Reply #11 - 07. May 2008 at 17:10
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Could some kind soul please fix the broken pic links in the posting below, I've managed to restore all the missing pics in my posts, but the others are still there,  the posters are Cal, Boydreamer, and Lostboy80, the text in all those posts are fine, all that needs to be done is remove the broken link.

Thanks for any help!

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Reply #12 - 07. May 2008 at 17:52
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I've updated the picture links on that thread now.

Let me know if there are any other threads you particularly want the pictures restoring to. As I said when I transferred the site, I'm not going to work through the thousands of threads here to restore all the broken picture links, but will do specific threads on request.
  
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Reply #13 - 07. May 2008 at 17:58
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Thanks SO much for taking care of that, and so fast!

I would never expect you, or anyone else to take on the chore of fixing all those other links, but this posting was very important to me, and to the thousands of fans of Jon, so again, many thanks!!
  
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Reply #14 - 10. May 2008 at 00:33
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Just one more quick question, is there some "work-around" I can use to make multiple pic uploads, as I can't use the java uploader.  If there is, I would be able to replace almost all the pics that are showing as red-x in my posts.  I still have most of the original pics stored.
  
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