This weekend I spent some quality time with Score Keeper working to improve performance.

First of all, memcached was installed and the dashboard is now cached. This lowered the execution time for that page by an order of magnitude from about 300ms on average to 25ms.

All icons are now in a single CSS sprite which is further optimized by running optipng on it. That way, all icons and the logo are in the same 7kb file which saves 10 HTTP requests.

Due to the horrible performance on the server lately, I will be moving Score Keeper to a new server today.

I will shut down the current server before moving to make sure that no data is lost in the transfer. You could use old-school paper to record played games until Score Keeper is up and running again :-)

Update: The move is now complete and the DNS changes seem to have propagated.

It's been about a month since my last post and a lot has happened in Score Keeper land.

Perhaps the biggest change is that Score Keeper now supports multiple games per account. Also, these games can have 1, 2 or 3 members on each team. Implementing this required ripping out a lot of code and re-implementing a lot of existing functionality, so Score Keeper has been unstable for a couple of weeks. Things seem to have improved a lot lately, though.

Other than that, I have made a lot of small changes, fixed some bugs and improved performance.

I spent a couple of hours on Score Keeper yesterday and made some changes.

A new column was added to the ranking table showing which position the user had a week ago. An arrow indicates whether the user moved up or down.

Also on the dashboard, teams in Recent matches are now sorted so that the winning team is always shown to the left. This is also the case under Matches if no filter is set.

Below a user's ranking chart you will now find a list of team mates along with details such as winning percentage.

About a month ago, I "released" Score Keeper at www.scorekeepr.dk. Simply put, Score Keeper is a web app for keeping scores, rankings, etc. for matches.

As you'll notice very quickly if you go to www.scorekeepr.dk, it is pre-alpha. Certain circumstances made it necessary to release earlier than planned, but on the other hand, the early release allows me to get some feedback on it.