Props & Acknowledgements

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

In no particular order (well, roughly reverse chrono… and no doubt forgetting some… my bad, I’ll get around to giving you props!).

NOTE: Props are also awarded on an ongoing basis in the what’s new section.

  • TNT: being willing (or unwilling) walking billboards — as in, stickers on water bottles, discs, etc.
  • JoNe: sponsor
  • BlMc & JuKr: good idea re: game checklists, dashboard tighten-up; also guinea pigging the UE
  • MiGa: ideas re: tab ordering, team hiding, etc.
  • RiKr: various suggestions, bug reports, and work to build a magic link to LeagueRunner
  • ErGe: connections with BUC
  • ArPa: trying out with NC
  • SeMa: branding on UT
  • BiIp: signing up the Inf (plus adding a post)
  • FaNa: good ideas on how to prosetylize, wearing shirts and in general representin’
  • JoNg via MoKa/AnWo: spawning the idea for the chalk talk feature
  • BrPe: good idea re CCing the captain
  • JaBr: valuable system testing through his large team of volunteers in the ‘Club
  • MaKaWi: suggesting more messaging re: the activation email
  • StBr: ideas/scoop re: FB
  • JaSo: pointing out need for more prominent warning when browser has scripting disabled
  • GoMu: good suggestion re: making emails less wordy
  • DiRo: spreading word to the uni intramural crowd
  • MaSi: pointing out a pesky bug that would have affected anyone with an apostrophe in their name (mainly the Irish, but also anyone whose name might have been enclosed in single-quotes)
  • GoMu: signing up his soccer team (thanks dude!), pointing out bugs & broken links, and plenty good ideas
  • PaGa: doing some good ol’ fashioned system testing; a bunch of good suggestions too
  • JeLi: telling his cap ShMo about HappyTC, and ShMo for signing up the Dudes — thanks guys! HappyTC is now international (OK, so timezone support still needs to be filled in, but what’s 3 hours); reminder re: email field validation (it’s fixed now)
  • JaBr: pointing out player ordering problem; volunteering (without the least bit of pressure!) to try it out, and signing up the whole BC crew (against their will or not ;) )… also plenty good ideas
  • FaNa: lots of ideas for future functionality; the original link-within-email idea
  • MoKa: suggestions re: dashboard cleanup, sign-in/registration streamlining… several of the key ones are implemented
  • RiNa: ideas re: toggle tip, comments boxes, etc.
  • LeRu: stressing focus on dashboard; trying on mobile; general expert’s eye view review
  • MaKaWi & PaKaWi: sign-in cleanup; wording; not saying out loud how likely you thought it was to get off the ground ;)
  • JeDi & DaDi: league selling points; testing; old Flash version trouble-shoot
  • AnAn: lending me “Art of the Start”; good ideas re: feeds, critical barriers to adoption, etc.; site review; suggesting a more reliable host
  • DeTe: good ideas for expansion (SMS, FB, etc.)
  • GoMu: looking at way-early wireframes, looking at it from POV of a league player
  • JeGa: encouragement, being first to vett the wireframes; ideas re: intramurals, “volunteer” labour, etc.
  • ScOD: being first to try it out on a different PC than the development machine!
  • JaBr: pointing out that keeping all links in the reminder emails will help Crackberry addicts and others
  • peeps/organizations that make free development tools: MySQL, PHP, Apache, Adobe Flex, phpMyAdmin, PuTTY, WordPress…

…and of course, last but not least, BrPe for supporting and encouraging this mad venture despite its inherent risks & opportunity cost. Plus too many suggestions to list, and signing up a bunch of beta users. Yeah. Nice wife! :D