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Web Site Changes in 2006

 
This is a page of changes made to this Web site since January 1st, 2006. Follow This Link to see changes made prior to that date. It ends in December, 2006. Follow this link to see changes in 2007.
Date Change Description
December 6th, 2006 Fixed another bug introduced by the changes.
December 3rd, 2006 Fixed a bug introduced by yesterday's changes.
December 2nd, 2006 Made fairly substantial changes to the list code to try to reduce the load on the SQL server.
November 18th, 2006 Updated this page.
November 16th, 2006 Made a sllight modification to the Contact Us page, in order to display Regional Information.
September 24th, 2006 Fixed an issue that prevented administrators from getting dumps of other ASC lists. Any meeting list administrator can now get a "raw" tab-delimited dump of ANY search; not just the ones for their ASC.
September 15th, 2006 Fixed a typo in this page.
September 14th, 2006 Fixed a bug in the Brooklyn ASC PDF List.
September 12th, 2006 Added some smaller distances to the zip code search in order to better serve City meetings.
September 3rd, 2006 Continued work on the Brooklyn ASC PDF List.
August 30th, 2006 Continued work on the Brooklyn ASC PDF List.
August 26th, 2006 Fixed a minor editing bug.
August 16th, 2006 Continued work on the Brooklyn ASC PDF List.
August 15th, 2006 Continued work on the Brooklyn ASC PDF List (Added front cover).
August 14th, 2006 Initial work on the Brooklyn ASC PDF List.
August 10th, 2006 Added the Administration Guide to the Site Map.
August 10th, 2006 Modified the Administration Guide to mention the embedding feature of this site.
August 6th, 2006 Modified the Administration Guide to contain a schema for the TSV dump.
August 5th, 2006 Added the ability for administrators to download searches as tab-delimited files (useful for creating independent lists).
July 31st, 2006 Removed a couple of blank target attributes in the meeting list results page. This means that the RSS and Adobe Acrobat pages will open up in the same page. This is a slight change from the stated disclaimer, but is necessary to ensure that the embedded list validates XHTML 1.1.
July 30th, 2006 Switched to session cookies for increased security. You need to log in each time now. However, once logged in, you can administer directly from standard searches. The login ends when the browser session ends.
July 20th, 2006 Added "Duration Icons" to the SASNA and Generic Long Island printable lists.
July 15th, 2006 Changed Calendar Administration slightly to allow direct access to events.
July 8th, 2006 Slight CSS Fix for image borders.
July 7th, 2006 Fixed a bug in the Search Tab caused by the ISP quietly tweaking file permissions.
July 5th, 2006 Fixed a bug in SASNA list printing.
July 1st, 2006 Reduced the cookie lifetime to sixty days for better security.
June 28th, 2006 Minor changes to the email system to prevent bad URIs from being sent.
June 26th, 2006 Updated the admin guide to reflect the new changes.
June 26th, 2006 Added security (checkbox) for the admin. cookie.
June 26th, 2006 Minor CSS change to prevent edit buttons from being printed.
June 25th, 2006 Added space between format codes to increase accessibility and allow them to wrap.
June 25th, 2006 Implemented direct editing of meetings. If an administrator is authorized to edit a meeting, and they have the admin cookie set, they will be able to directly edit the meeting from a normal search.
June 25th, 2006 Fixed a minor cookie issue.
June 24th, 2006 Added a cookie to the admin. system to ease administration.
June 24th, 2006 The main meeting search results list now displays New York City boroughs as the town (more useful).
June 24th, 2006 Added change to privacy policy to allow cookies to be used for administration only.
June 24th, 2006 Added note about 90 minute default meeting length, and removed default durations from main GNY printed list.
June 17th, 2006 Added spaces between the breadcrumb separators. This is a step towards validating the site as WAI AAA.
June 17th, 2006 Fixed problems that interfered with administrator access rights.
June 13th, 2006 Removed the "External Links" disclaimer from printouts.
June 12th, 2006 Merged the sandbox into the mainline.
June 12th, 2006 Disabled the Spanish metaphone support, as there was no testing being done.
June 12th, 2006 Added more info to the NAWS dump.
June 2nd, 2006 Added some more exclusions to the site indexer.
June 1st, 2006 Integrated the NAWS dump with the change database, so it now has the ability to dump only changed meetings.
June 1st, 2006 Moved the NAWS dump into an administrative function.
June 1st, 2006 Drastically simplified the bottom of the meeting search (Now there is only one button for an Adobe PDF file), modified the RSS text and added a disclaimered link to the Adobe Reader. Moved the NAWS dump into an administrative function.
May 31st, 2006 Added several divs and CSS classes to the month calendar in order to enhance the ability for the calendar to be customized. Different styles can now be applied for specific months, specific years, specific dates, weekdays, etc. For example, it would now be possible to have a different background picture or color for each month of the year, or have weekend days be colored differently.
May 30th, 2006 Added an "invisible column" to the meeting search results, so the street address of meetings will show up in printouts of the results list.
May 30th, 2006 Made the note about clicking on the meeting name in meeting search results more prominent.
May 30th, 2006 Fixed the PDF download to prevent possible SQL injection attack.
May 30th, 2006 Enhanced the user administration with some AJAX to ease the assignment of meeting list coordinators.
May 25th, 2006 Added some administration functions to the RSC/ASC editor to allow access to the NAWS IDs.
May 24th, 2006 Made the outside link disclaimer a part of the general site template.
May 24th, 2006 Simplified the "nice printout" options, and added the NAWS-formatted CSV output.
May 23rd, 2006 Added a Spanish metaphone (misspelling tolerance) functionality to the meeting search.
May 23rd, 2006 Added code to remove the sandbox site from the main search indexer.
May 12th, 2006 Typo fix and slight rearrangment to the admin guide.
May 10th, 2006 Improved metaphone (spell tolerance) a bit
May 9th, 2006 Added some functionality that should help find meetings, even if the town or county is slightly misspelled.
May 7th, 2006 Added the endorsement disclaimer to all pages where external links may open.
May 6th, 2006 Very slight change in the print CSS to ensure visited <a> tags are always printed as black.
May 3rd, 2006 Increased the size of the World ID field.
April 30th, 2006 Added some excludes to the search indexer.
April 26th, 2006 Fixed a bug in the Advanced Search that would display an error in some searches.
March 25th, 2006 Minor CSS Tweaks.
March 24th, 2006 Fixed a bug that would leave the town blank in new meetings and events.
March 22nd, 2006 Fixed a typo on this page.
March 21st, 2006 Modified the Freedom XVIII Page.
March 19th, 2006 Changes in admin code to ensure that the proper author gets assigned to changes made.
March 19th, 2006 Slight changes in the tab-delimited output to make it more compatible with some DB software.
March 18th, 2006 Minor fix in advanced search for a bug introduced by the default of "NY" as a state.
March 16th, 2006 Minor changes to meeting list administration to improve usability.
March 16th, 2006 Minor tweak to allow more concise printing of meeting search results.
March 16th, 2006 Slight bug fixes to meeting list administration.
March 14th, 2006 Minor tweak to default the Meeting Search state to NY.
March 14th, 2006 Slight bug fixes to meeting list administration.
March 14th, 2006 Minor tweak to the towns popup to simplify it when there is only one town.
March 13th, 2006 Re-enabled Ajax Code. Embedded code can't use it due to cross-domain XMLHTTPRequest calls.
March 13th, 2006 Temporarily disabling the Ajax code until it can be debugged for embedded lists.
March 13th, 2006 Made the updates of the county and town popups smoother in browsers that support it.
March 12th, 2006 Simplified the Meeting List Administration slightly by removing the redundant "Description" box.
March 4th, 2006 Made the "Basic Text" embedding example more complex.
February 27th, 2006 Minor change in the Administration Guide.
February 26th, 2006 Added the Administration Guide.
February 26th, 2006 Fixed the map URL in the Contact Page.
February 26th, 2006 Removed several fields from meeting list administration, as they added unnecessary complexity.
February 25th, 2006 Very slight changes in meeting list display to avoid some validation errors.
February 20th, 2006 Added some formatting to the search results, which were being displayed completely centered and "raw."
February 20th, 2006 The "Clean Print" now works properly on all tested browsers.
February 19th, 2006 Cosmetic changes to the template to ensure proper display on older browsers.
February 19th, 2006 Made a minor change to ensure that no ASC filtering is applied when searching for meetings with no ASC.
February 18th, 2006 Added the ability to search for meetings without assigned ASCs to the Master Admin.
January 29th, 2006 Added the new Freedom XVIII Page.
January 26th, 2006 Made the explanatory dialog for adding towns a lot more verbose, in order to alleviate the issue of creating non-existent towns.
January 25th, 2006 Made some temporary fixes for the printing issue.
January 22nd, 2006 Fairly substantial changes to make printing of site pages work better. NOTE: Printing does not work on some browsers! Fixes are in progress!
January 21st, 2006 Updated the Site Map for the revised changes pages.
January 19th, 2006 Work on some Freedom Convention pages. Still preliminary and unreleased.
January 15th, 2006 Minor changes to the event administration system to allow regions to be assigned as event owners.
January 14th, 2006 Minor changes to the event administration system to avoid JavaScript issues.
January 1st, 2006 Made this the current change list, and moved 2005 changes to their own page.
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