BestPartyEver.com Development Blog

Have a look at the latest Screenshot of the BestPartyEver.com Dashboard.

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Well it has certainly been awhile since our last release, yet we are happy to announce BPE alpha 3.0.1 build 1276.

Details of this Release:

• Blogging feature implemented for users (utilizes xmlrpc -> wpmu)
• New landing/central dashboard page for users.
• Addition of first of many top come badges
• Many many minor bug fixes, most notably the date picker on the party creator

Here is a screen shot of the new dashboard

Next release should take bestpartyever into full fledged “beta” status.. oh yeah. But more importantly the vendor/business system will be in.

Ciao.

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Release notes for build 1200

This is a minor release that addressed mostly minor bug fixes, code optimization, and the addition of a few marketing pages. Have a look at the new page for the party planning tools.

That is all, have a good Thanksgiving.

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As much as I am tired of hearing “web2.0″ thrown around I am a bit more exhausted to hear the drone about web2.0 companies not having a revenue model to speak of.

We have one, oh my! shhhh.. dont tell anyone in our space that we actually make money beyond adsense, banner ads, and affiliate links

This is the screenshot of the photoshop comp for the “buy” page of bestpartyever.com. *Subject to change* Bottom line is we have a proven and reliable revenue model that bolts right into our “web2.0″ social goodness.

Attn investors: Time is ticking, If you want in this first round, jump.

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Release notes for Build 1164:

These release was all about the new checklists. Users can now track and save multiple to-do item lists.

Quite a few other smaller fixes went in as well.

• New Party To’do lists
• Bug fixes to guestlists
• Badges for user to paste on other sites…
• The To-do lists utilize the hcal microformat, which will come in handy later for doing exports.

We will likely do a small release early next week to address a few CSS issues and the like. We plan to release v3.0.1 mid December which will deploy the new Vendor platform.

Awesome.

Screenshot of the new Checklists.

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Release notes for build 1093 of BestPartyEver.com

This release focused mainly on deploying the new budget calculator in the Party Planning Tools.

• New party Budget Calculator using Inline editing and AJAX for all users
• New pages for party ideas
• Tag clouds for party idea types
• General UI/CSS and bug fixes
• Added Connection Character encoding support for Code Igniter Active Record

Screenshot of new Budget Calculator

Screenshot of new Party Ideas page

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Release notes for Build 1025

This release is mainly bug fixes and SEO improvements. Although we did bootstrap in the preliminary recommendation engine. Relevant party ideas, parties, and vendors now show on users party, and party idea pages.

That is all

Screenshot of Guest list / Add guest. Uses inline editing, Ajax, and hcard microformat

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Release notes for BestPartyEver.com v 3.0.0 ALPHA Build 1000

This release mainly focused on bootstrapping the party planning guest lists, and the additions to the “basket” model

• Minor CSS enhancements and text/grammer fixes
• Added TinyMCE to a few textareas for content submission
• Users can now create guest lists for each created party. Guest lists use the hcard microFormat
• Inline editing for guest lists using AJAX
• Users can now add party ideas to their saved item basket, and manage saved vendors and ideas in their global basket. (Future: integrate these saved items into the party planning process)
• Added session data to our bug reporting form
• Added double email verification on registration form
• Added default info for users profiles
• Added icon driven CRUD UI for a few party planning tools
• Expanded core CI Active Record class to support “on duplicate key”
• Added a dedicated debugger class to our dev environment

It was a good week, we expect to roll out most of the remaining party planning tools in next weeks release, and then begin work on bootstrapping the vendor registration and advert system.

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Release notes for v3.0.0 ALPHA build930

4 days and 3 releases, why not
In this release:

• Expanded search results - Party ideas and user profiles now appear in search results
• Better search - continued refinement of the search algo
• Social Timeline RSS - http://bestpartyever.com/timeline.rss
• Contact form now uses proper Validation
• Automated Google Sitemap Generation
• General UI improvements and JS bug fixes

Cool deal..

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Here are notes for the first of many to come weekly build updates to bestpartyever.com.

BPE v3.0.0 build 900

Included in this release:

• Profile privacy settings now work. Currently locks down all profile info and meta objects (blogs, parties, ideas etc)
• Friends timeline date calculation bug fixed
• Sally will now be the first friend for all new users
• Latest elements added to 404 page for better SEO
• Minor js and css changes
• Slight Refinement of  search results
• “Basket” feature for vendors completed (users add objects to a basket for later reference)
• “Spotlight Search” debugged and working for basket. (Users can now search past created items and items in basket from object creation pages.)

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