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I've been preparing a Polish(!) version of shoot em up T.W.T.P.B. Quite cool to see the game in Polish and it also involved converting some of the game to use unicode and not ascii, something I've never done before. It was actually quite painless std::wstring to the rescue.

The reason for the Polish T.W.T.P.B. version is that a full version will be included in exclusively in a magazine. I'll make an announcement when it is released. During this time I've also managed to make some general maintenance, so there will probably be a public update soon.

I kind of like the new twtpb highscores page, there are some issues with cashed content if you're not logged in so make sure you sign up and log in to get the latest info. Also there is some css trouble in IE

I'm thinking of making an extension to this and list the best players in each country. This will be based on what country you supply in your online profile. Could be neat

Feel free to make any site comments/suggestions/requests in the forums.

The site now features nice urls, nice as in readable, for most content. This is supposedly really good for search engines and also it is way better for us humans to have a url that actually means something.

In Drupal this can be easily achieved with the pathauto module that depends on path and token modules. Easily, is of course relative

I've been putting this work off for a long time mainly because it requires you to think about how your site should be organized. This is actually quite hard, since your decisions tend to live for a long time. Also it involves a somewhat risky bulk update of the site and database. These things are always a bit scary to do.

My plan of attack was to use a test installation and make experiments on it, and then go live. I spent a few hours last night making the changes and it did take a while before I got the hang of it and found a structure that I was satisfied with.

Then came the live part ... actually things went great. The servers we are currently running on is way faster than my private dedicated setup, so the update was made in a few seconds. As of now all seems to work just fine. Yay!

And I did some updates to the pc video game list. You now got a small description and a download link readily available.

If you can read this it means that my efforts to migrate the site has been successful! We are now working on a completely new host that has more performance and reliability.

If all is ok... I will tell you more in a while

Update!

Seems that all is working ok. There has been some glitches and missing files, but I think I have nailed them down now. The file hierarchy and database was a mess Don't hesitate to tell us if you find something erroneous.

Anyway, we're now live and kicking again, and our new host that is specialized in drupal will allow us to continue to kick ass and develop the community and site further

As you may have noticed I've been playing around with the header design some lately (ctrl-f5 is your friend).

This post is not much more than a css test for headlines in the blogpost. We need some better headline formats, for example when writing articles in blog posts.

Today we did some massive site and hUb testing. A group of interaction designers from the University of Kalmar did a full day workshop evaluating the site and hUb. They found a massive amount of issues, some small some bigger. We also got a number of possible improvements to consider.

We now have a massive amount of feedback, notes and images to organize and prioritize. This will take a few days, but I will try to present our conclusions here.

Huge thanks to all that participated! This will really help us improve!