Developments

This week's ingame tune turned out nicely ( ^ That one ^ ).

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Screenshots, logo and more have all been done.
The game's pretty much ready to go, and I'm kinda tempted to do that, today.
Amazing how fast a game comes together, some weeks, whilst others can drag on and on and on..

Fun With Servers

Meanwhile, over on SoCoder2, I spent most of last night delving deep into the server and its settings.
I'm now 95% convinced that the hourly "stutter" is NOT anything to do with my code! (o/yeayo/)

For test purposes, I shuffled around all my "hourly" events, to different times during the hour.
Hourly emails get sent at a quarter to the hour, Topic/Thread shuffling happens at a quarter past, and various other background tasks happen at the half hour.
And yet, after all of the shuffling, the server was still doing it's weird stutter on-the-hour.

I've since done a lot of cleaning up on the server, neatening folders and deleting a lot of unused content, and it now seems to be running a little better.
Meanwhile, Cron jobs were shuffled through the hour, and hopefully over the next few days I can figure out exactly what it is that's causing the stutter.

So far, the only thing I can find that definitely slows things down for a few seconds, is the main database backup, but that's not on the hour either!!
Bah, humbug!

Daily Doodle : Dunking

Platdude always seems to be the fall-guy at summer fairs.
This would be much more fun if the gunge gel wasn't so sticky.

Misc..

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