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Introducing our Developer: The SlyDev Thread!
« on: January 27, 2016, 01:52:11 pm »
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Hey everyone!

So, it's been a hectic few months for the website! Long story short, a very talented developer (David Beck) pretty much built this site from the ground up, and after many years on the job he wanted to move on to bigger and better things. At the moment, he's full-time developing an incredible algorithm/program/whatever that's attached to Section Zero but goes much bigger than the UMAT. It's pretty groundbreaking stuff, but you guys will see in due time.

We had a lot of struggles finding a developer who could meet the demands of the ATAR Notes website, which has a lot of technology attached to it. We use SMF, WordPress, and custom code written by David. With all of these technologies interacting, we need someone who's extremely skilled and talented to even understand the way the pieces of the site are working together - let alone work with the site itself.

This made things difficult, because for a while we didn't have a developer, because our opinion was that it would be better to have no one and wait for someone that can give this community the love it deserves than to hire someone who just wasn't up for the job. This was even worse when we had server issues and things of that nature because it meant we had to scramble and hire niche server specialists from all over the place to make sure things were fixed quickly. We found Slydev a few months ago and he's been working really well with the site, and we're unequivocally excited to announce that he is now this community's official developer.

Most recently, he oversaw our transition from our old server to the same server hosts that Netflix use (woohoo!). However, last week for about a day the site had some more issues, which is seemingly impossible given that our server is now amazing. We've had a lot of people look at this stuff to try and diagnose the issue and we thought moving servers was the end of it. SlyDev made a breakthrough last week and started uncovering different issues. Little tiny pieces of custom code weren't optimal, and there was some relic code like the old 'forced redirect' code (which we disabled a while ago) that was doing funny stuff to the website. At the moment he's optimising all of that stuff to make the website essentially bulletproof. He's also been building the tutoring list, which is 99% finished, with the 1% delayed while he fully optimises the site.

Point of story is: this guy's amazing. We're crazy lucky to have found him and crazy lucky that he loves education and really wants to work with this community, even though there are more 'glamorous' things in the IT world that he could be doing. I'm introducing you to him now because I want you guys to communicate issues and suggestions to him directly. Keep in mind that he has a lot of projects to work on. At the moment, he's developing some pretty cool stuff that will split the website without anyone ever realising, so VCE people think it's a VCE-only website and HSC people think it's an HSC-only website (with only relevant content served to relevant audiences). This means he can't be at your beck and call :P. However, it means that when he has spare hours, he can look at what you guys would like done, see which suggestions are logically possible and then improve the site before your eyes. I think this is really exciting and I've wanted to introduce him for ages... It's going to make things a lot easier, and if you guys encounter issues, they'll be dealt with even quicker than before.

In this thread, you can chat to The SlyDev and he can chat to you. You can suggest little things or even point out things on the site that aren't as optimal as they could be, and he can add them to his to-do list (which he keeps organised quite religiously) and smash them out when the chance arises. Make sure you're nice to him and don't scare him away - we want this guy around for a while ;)

Oh and his respect count is running a little low. Make sure you shower him with upvotes and give him a huge welcome to the forums :).
« Last Edit: January 27, 2016, 02:03:18 pm by brenden »
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Re: Introducing our Developer: The SlyDev Thread!
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2016, 01:57:30 pm »
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Where's this guy? Whats his real name btw?
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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2016, 02:00:12 pm »
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Where's this guy? Whats his real name btw?

I think every user is entitled to some privacy, but if it helps just pretend he sells 3D printed Nerf accessories while doing some IT on the side LOL :)

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Re: Introducing our Developer: The SlyDev Thread!
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2016, 02:02:06 pm »
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Where's this guy? Whats his real name btw?
Haha he's about to post, just take a deep breath in and let it out slowly :P.

No one knows his real name. He's sort of like a Batman villain. He just leaves pictures of a sly looking fox everywhere he goes so you know that the SlyDev was there.

I think every user is entitled to some privacy, but if it helps just pretend he sells 3D printed Nerf accessories while doing some IT on the side LOL :)
He's super well-prepared for the zombie apocalypse.
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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2016, 02:05:00 pm »
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Haha he's about to post, just take a deep breath in and let it out slowly :P.

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Re: Introducing our Developer: The SlyDev Thread!
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2016, 02:05:46 pm »
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Mate I barely passed Further, if you think I'm proficient in 10+ languages you've gotta be dreaming.
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« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2016, 02:06:11 pm »
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Thanks for the intro Brenden  :)

Hey all!
As you guys can tell the site has been a bit up and down for the past little while, that has mostly been me breaking and fixing things as I go in the hope to make atarnotes reach its potential as a website. Most of it is wibbly wobbly code stuff but it is getting there!

Over the next while I will be releasing some new functionality which I would love everyone's feedback on but in the mean time don't hesitate to let me know about any issues you guys are having and I will jump right on them. Also always keen to hear about new ideas or changes to the site which will be beneficial to the community to add to my, ever-growing, list.

Anyways I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts  ;D
Joey - Atar Developer Slydev

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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2016, 02:08:40 pm »
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Mate I barely passed Further, if you think I'm proficient in 10+ languages you've gotta be dreaming.

Wouldn't be surprised. Passing Further is no indication of computer knowledge hehe.

I think every user is entitled to some privacy, but if it helps just pretend he sells 3D printed Nerf accessories while doing some IT on the side LOL :)

Why did you post this???!!! Now Euler is going to go around brandishing his modded nerf guns, and reign as meanest mod for another year.

Edit: And hey SlyDev, ur not very good at hiding your real name ;) Google provides all the answers :)
Edit 2:2 respect already!
Edit 3:How does he have 2 posts if he has posted once?
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« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2016, 02:08:52 pm »
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I bet his respect ratio will be like 1 post: 200 respect xD

All aboard the respect-train, its gonna take off soon... choo choo

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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2016, 02:14:40 pm »
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Edit: And hey SlyDev, ur not very good at hiding your real name ;) Google provides all the answers :)

I haven't used my real name online in years, even on facebook I use an alias "Joey". I am curious as to how good your google-fu is (or more how much information google keeps around).
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« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2016, 02:18:32 pm »
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I haven't used my real name online in years, even on facebook I use an alias "Joey". I am curious as to how good your google-fu is (or more how much information google keeps around).

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« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2016, 02:19:01 pm »
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I haven't used my real name online in years, even on facebook I use an alias "Joey". I am curious as to how good your google-fu is (or more how much information google keeps around).

You remind me of icefrog, the developer of the massive pc game dota 2, nobody still knows who he is.

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« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2016, 02:30:01 pm »
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You remind me of icefrog, the developer of the massive pc game dota 2, nobody still knows who he is.

Gaben would know, gaben always knows.
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« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2016, 02:54:21 pm »
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Gaben would know, gaben always knows.

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Re: Introducing our Developer: The SlyDev Thread!
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2016, 04:00:00 pm »
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SlyDev's profile says he's done 4 posts but *plot-twist* he's done 3? ???