Office Pool Champion Developer Blog 📝

📝 Welcome to the developer/release blog. Keep track of the changes as they are implemented. Whenever a new version is released, its key points will be here. The app is at www.officepoolchampion.com. Please visit join.officepoolchampion.com and subscribe to our newsletter.

Version 2.0.16

June 10, 2024

• Moved the application to it's own dedicated subdomain: app.officepoolchampion.com
• Fixed a couple of dashboard anomalies
• Updated the home page, legal pages and blog

Version 2.0.12

December 3, 2022

• Released the Live Tournament Bracket for both edit and display purposes
• Bonus Team Summary - updated UI to indicate the total number of times a team is selected as a bonus team selections and the average ranking of the said team as chosen by players
• Bonus Team Summary - added indicator for eliminated teams from a tournament.

Version 2.0.11

• Updated Admin portal

Version 2.0.10

• Maintenance releases for various UI anomalies

Version 2.0.9

• Captured a better audit log
• Improved the menu structure
• optimized a couple of mobile settings

Version 2.0.8

• More 🐛 Fixes...
• Added a chat icon blink to draw attention to it.
• Fixed a minor chat bug.
• Display players' names in standings. Available only if you're logged in and a member of the pool.

Version 2.0.7

• 🐛 Fixes...
• Added guest access... Anyone can sign in and check out what the pools look like, what the features are, and how things work.

Version 2.0.6 - PROD Release

• Late October 2022.
• 🏃‍♂️ It was a good development run. Pizza 🍕, beers 🍺, and pop 🥤 were consumed in copious amounts.
• Rebranded everything. The original brand, Fantasy League Champion, had an undesired connotation as some thought the pools hosted were for player/team management-type pools. The intention is and always was a score/result-based pool for various competitions.
• A quick Namecheap check later, officepoolchampion.com was available. Voila. OfficePoolChampion.com was born.
• Released everything as a beta with a few users testing the features. Big thanks to Reksio and The Emperor for your assistance and feedback.

⚽ It is now live. And ready for the 2022 World Cup.

Version 2.0.5 - (β) Beta - The BIG ONE 💥

• August 2022
• More code cleanup and refactoring.
• Started UI work. Standardized layout, menus, color scheme, etc...
• CSS is a major time suck... ⏳ This rabbit hole was very deep and came way too early... 🐇🐇🐇
• Designed and implemented the pool hosting and pool joining features.
• Anyone can host their own pools now. It has built-in user management for accepting, removing, and kicking people from a pool.
• Administrative privileges can be granted so that pool management can be distributed.
• Defined what a pool is. Identified its properties. Decided on configuration and features.
• 🎯 The MVP was born

Version 2.0.4

• Consolidated and standardized the definition of competitions and the teams that participate.
• This was necessary as various teams across sports may share the same abbreviation - which was used to identify their logo. I.e. POR - FC Porto and POR - Portugal.
• Organized the image libraries to separate images by teams and competitions, and user profile logos (icons).
• Implemented an icon-picking popup.
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Version 2.0.3

• Plodding along... Not enough weekends in the calendar to work on this... 🐢🐢🐢
• Redefined the meaning of a user.
• a platform user is a person who logs into the portal
• a pool user is an entry into a pool.
• This allows one profile to consolidate all pools a person participates in under one login.
• This required a data cleanup and consolidation effort to collect past pool logins to a single central login. Fortunately, over 95% of the data was clean and its import was automated. The rest was manually fixed over a weekend. No biggie.

Version 2.0.2

• Added a proper data access layer. This is adopted in about 75% of the code
• Fully functional legacy code that still relies on retrieved recordsets stayed.
• Implemented a fully code-generated middle tier via an object-oriented and object-based (classes) design.

Version 2.0.1

• Created a based framework as a proof of concept.
• The idea was to pursue as much Code Generation and implementation of partial classes as possible. Yes - partial classes ARE possible in Classic ASP.

Version 2.0.0 - (α) Alpha

• Early December 2021
• Consolidate legacy code and databases into a new platform.
• Still based on Classic ASP in order to reuse the base logic and to speed development (or so we thought)
• Did consider developing in Microsoft Blazor, but time and material constraints pointed to skipping a full port at this time. Maybe Version 3.0.
• Launched the blog and the app at fantasyleaguechampion.com. The first post is a bit of a history of how this started and how it is going.