• Finally got site back up and running with everythng working right
• Uploaded this weeks armory data
• Enabled comments on blog posts. Now uses reCaptcha to deter spammers.

I may not be making much more updates to the site from now on, or rather not as frequently. I am in the process of learning asp.net mvc 2 and it is way cleaner and easier to work with. I am already well on my way to re tooling the site to run under asp.net mvc so the next few weeks there will not be to many updates til then.

I will continue to download armory data for SoE every week and upload it to the site so new data can be viewed. I am also near compleation of a distributed armory downloader. With this distributed downloader I can install it on any number of client machines and capture armory data faster. I have already put it to use it to capture data for May 25, 2010.

Frak I hate web development. All last week the site was down and it is still not fully back up and running. I also did not do a armory download for last week so that data is not going to be there. To make matters worse my personal website createdbyx.com is also down and I am still trying to get that back up and running.

So hopefully (with alot of luck) everything on both sites will be back up and running by the end of the week.

• Made some fixes to the site
• Added ability to click on a header and have that column be sorted

Added Activity rankings. Activity rankings take into account the total activity of a character that pulls all* statistics data, faction rep, equipment changes, talent changes, etc as well as various other data points. *Technically not all statistics are included in the activity ranking. None of the combat statistics are included.

The reason for this is because the numbers are huge and they are susceptible to cheating. A player could set there toon to auto attack a target dummy and it would increase there activity rating because Combat statistics track total damage done, received, healing done received etc. This may change in the future if I find a way to present the data in a more logical and simplified way.

Discovered a puzzling bug that I have been unable to fix. If you look at the Guild listings at the top there is a guild called "Årsenopyrîtes Pet" that is being displayed as "Ã…rsenopyrîtes Pet". Something about the special characters in cirtian guild names are causing bad links to be displayed. I suspect it has something to do with the page encoding but I have tried a number of things and it doesent seem to fix it.

What makes it even more odd is that it displays just fine when I test it under localhost but when I run it on the web server it gets corrupted, even though the exact same html is being downloaded, and viewed under the same browser.

I could cheat and do character replacements for special characters. For example character "Å" would become the normal uppercase "A" but if there are ever two virtually identical guild names "ÅdalGang" and "AdalGang" I will end up with duplicate links for "AdalGang".