I’ve been working behind the scenes on updating Stats by Numbers for the NBA 2012-2013 regular season that will be starting on October 30th, 2012. In order to get the site ready for the new season, I had to make some drastic changes to the core structure. It had been well over a year since I’d done any work to the site and I knew I needed to get a fresh start for it. Some of the design decisions I’d made in 2007 were not so great and the only way to fix things was to scrape the entire frontend of the site. This also meant reworking the database design on the backend to create ways to map my old data into the new formats I’d devised.

The updated scores page for Stats by Numers, with a weekly carousel and date selector.

I’ve mostly completed the backend work and am getting the site ready for launch by processing the box score and play by play data for the last 3 seasons. This amounts to quite a lot of data as there are about 1.64 million plays in just the last few seasons alone. There is still a little more than a month before the season starts and ample time to get everything ready. Over the course of the next few weeks, I’ll be updating Stats by Numbers with more content and adding posts to the blog on the site.

Dynamic Sandbox

In other news, my brother and I are in full production of our to be announced game. Our game company, Dynamic Sandbox, will be releasing the title in the next 6 months and I will be able to share more information in the coming months. We are both lifelong gamers and are very excited to be working on something we are so passionate about. What I can say now is that we’ve chosen MOAI to be our framework; this allows us to write one set of code and port the game to many devices thanks to the cross-platform architecture of MOAI. I can’t wait to share more about we’re working on in future posts!

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This is where I’ll be hosting my blog, creative writing, and game development projects.  I plan on updating my other site (Dynamic Sandbox) to be a hub for all of my projects, but for now each individual site is the best place to get the most up to date information about that project.  Speaking of projects, here is the latest list of my personal projects:

• A Rising Force – my alternative indie rock band
• What’s Going On? – my personal blog (this is what you’re reading)
• Fast Food Feeds – my fast food blog
• Wrapper – a programming language I’m developing
• Creative Writing – my outlet for novels, short stories, and poetry
• Game Development – a place to post concepts, designs, and prototypes

Hopefully the next post will be somewhat more interesting than me blabbing on about all my personal stuff.  I look the make the blog a place where I discuss a wide variety of interesting topics.  My goal is to post at least once a week and more frequently when I have something to talk about.  Okay…that’s it for now.  Time for sleep.

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