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I’ve been pretty busy since September, when the SI.com scoreboard development team embarked on a program of work to redesign the site's NFL, College Football, NHL, NBA and College Basketball score, stats and players pages.
The redesign involved:- Changing data vendors, in some cases;
- Front-end HTML changes;
- Some front-end statistical enhancements;
- Changing from JSP publishing to XSLTs, for various reasons.
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(Brandon, aka,
Swimsuit XSLT man)
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It was challenging.
Then, the Winter Olympics and the SI.com online Swimsuit edition development ramped up, just as NBA and College Basketball were going out the door.
And, in October and November, I worked on selling my house in Grayson, Georgia, to move over to Cumming, Georgia, in early December.
It was tough there for a while.
But, I’m very happy to report that the Olympics and Swimsuit launched when they were supposed to with little launch drama.
You can check them out here:
> Olympics Medal Tracker
> Olympics Schedule and Results (Short Track, my favorite)
> Swimsuit Edition
On time and to spec, as they say.
Here are some photos I think are particularly exciting. They show the boredom what was the Olympics scoreboards launch day.
Unni is watching cricket on the tube. He's not worried about the Olympics results. He knows they're good.
Yuliya is playing Super Collapse! II. That's a good sign.
Linda and Kevin discuss the finer points of handling the SI DEV on-call Blackberry. It gets boring when things work as planned.
The first medals and news stories auto-magically updating.
