http://www.hackpack.com/ Hackpack en-us Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:48:53 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Hackpack News http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.hackpack.com/images/title_2012.png http://www.hackpack.com/ http://www.hackpack.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=62 The latest word is no changes to Hackpack for the coming 2012 season. No new format, no teams, nothing different from what you experienced in 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, etc. First day of Hackpack 2012 will be Monday April 9, and through September 3. Off for the holiday weekends of May 28 and July 2. Tom will be sending out emails with update as the season start gets closer. New Hardware is Live I have moved Hackpack.com completely over to the server that Signature technology Group graciously donated for our use. It all seems to be working well. If you find any issues(as there are always issues) please email me at john.rappold at gmail.com. Hackpack.com Changes? I had started work on a new, updated version of hackpack.com, as this site is ancient in technology years. I am hopeful to get a new site built, but time is a precious commodity that always seems to be less plentiful as the years pass. For those interested you can see whats in the works at test.hackpack.com. It is built on a wordpress platform (as I hate to recreate with wheel), and will incorporate a lot of ajax and js code. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:48:53 GMT http://www.hackpack.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=61 Dean Polster, a popular, long time Hackpack member recently passed away from a heart attack. All our thoughts are with Dean's family and friends at this time. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:35:47 GMT http://www.hackpack.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=60 As some of you know the server hardware we are using for Hackpack has been failing lately, meaning crashing regularly. It is an old PoS box I built years ago, and is basically beyond fixing. So Tom put out the plea for some generous provider to help us out with something newer and more reliable that we can transition Hackpack.com over to, to provide greater speed and reliability going forward. Amazingly we had a response from one of our long-time friend of Hackpack, and they provided us with awesome second hand servers. The change-over though will probably take a week or two as moving database and web applications built on a MS platform(built 8+years ago) over to a newer hardened appliance running a current Linux distro is not cut-and-paste. Not to mention trying to make sure the new box has all the critical data duplicated to a cloud storage location just in case of local failure. Rapp Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:52:32 GMT http://www.hackpack.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=59 Joe Larkin identified some errors on the Handicap History report, where the historical handicap display, and the associated charts were grabbing data from the previous year, as well as the current year for subs. These displays have nothing to do with the actual handicap calculation, and the report has been corrected. Wed, 04 May 2011 18:12:10 GMT http://www.hackpack.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=58 Monday night, due to some very slow wi-fi internet speeds some scoring records got corrupted, and some duplicated. This has happened in the past but only one or two were impacted and easily fixed. This time about a dozen player records were affected which has prompted me to actually take the time and create a couple new admin tools to handle issues like these more effectively. Sorry for the inconvenience, but hopefully with the new tools errors of this nature can be more quickly handled in the future. ALL SCORES HAVE BEEN PROCESSED Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:37:13 GMT http://www.hackpack.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=57 Hello returning Hackpack fans. We are diligently preparing for the launch of the new 2011 season. I have been working/testing out a new site design that will hopefully be ready for this new year. The current site design is about 5 years old now and well overdue for an infusion of updated functionality. Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:22:49 GMT http://www.hackpack.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=56 It's official, week 5 is a RAIN OUT. No Play. Mon, 10 May 2010 21:15:28 GMT http://www.hackpack.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=55 First Eagle: Doug Grandy chipped in on the 1st hole of the Arcade Creek back nine. The Blue course. Lot's of score entry mistakes. Recently there seem to be many players making score entry errors such as accidentally checking the sub box, or forgetting the player had a sub and the score gets associated with the absent player. Most of you saw last night I added some detail to the score entry display, where above the players picture it shows you their scoring status. What the score entered is, or if they had a sub, or were a noshow. Please take the moment to double-check after you submit a score to see if it is correct. Tue, 04 May 2010 18:01:17 GMT http://www.hackpack.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=54 Checking scores on the site over the weekend I discovered a small error in 3 or 4 matches. It had to do with a sub's handicap being carried over from the previous season rather then a new handicap being calculated for this 2010 season. I have fixed the bug and re-processed the matches for scores and handicaps. Handicaps should not have changed for regular members, only for a couple subs. But some points will have changed. If you had a sub for week 2 or 3, you may see a change in points from their match. The best place to see the match detail is the Detailed Match Report If you see anything that does not look correct please let me know. Mon, 03 May 2010 00:31:25 GMT http://www.hackpack.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=53 Please make sure to generously tip our beautiful hosts after your wonderful rounds everyone. Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:47:25 GMT