development notes

-All times are Philippine time (UTC 0800)

2011.06.11 - backend has completely been replaced by be-* from the original storyedit.php.

2011.06.12 - dev.php is created, gzip for php implemented, conditional 304 implemented. signin validation codes have been doubled (from 12 to 24) as per gatepass specs.

2011.06.12 | 12.00 - external attempt to fetch passwords has been noticed.

2011.06.17 - added twitter and facebook buttons; removed counters because of program flaw.

2011.06.18 - external attempt to discover sql injection flaw has been detected.

2011.06.20 - ads are now served from ads.radyonatin.com. watch out for ads.radyonatin.com!

2011.06.23 | 01.42 - ads served through ads.radyonatin.com for www.radyonatin.com fully implemented; needed to be done/improved: front-end, impression spam detection, click spam detection.

2011.06.24 | 20.01 - impression spam detection for ads.radyonatin.com is implemented; click spam detection is implemented; problems with non-compliant caches has been detected for days; dev team has decided not to change codes for non-complaint caches on the premise that non-compliant caches SHOULD be compliant and that, they should not cache pages that should not be cached. cache test may be done here - http://www.procata.com/cachetest/.

2011.06.26 | 01.10 - impression spam and click spam detection implemented. seems like it's stable. we're having the impression google loves us. our site is being reindexed for the past three hours...and still is going.

2011.06.27 | 00.42 - better algorithm for impression spam and click spam detection implemented; clickthrough conversion is now computed better based on clickthrough rate.

2011.06.27 | 02.03 - attempting to block google web preview for ads.radyonatin.com in order to prevent "accidental" impressions and clicks.

2011.06.28 | 02.15 - impression count and click count disabled for browsers with disabled cookies.

2011.07.04 | 02.41 - ads rotation: done, decreasing points for auto refresh of impression: done.

2011.07.16 - whole radyonatin.com site has been moved to a temporary server. problem is with email address. maybe due to propagation delay. hoping to return to the original server within a week.

2011.07.17 - email address is now working fine. we hope it continues to do so.

2011.07.22 - whole site is back at original servers. so far so good.

2012.01.04 - gatepass version 2.0 has been implemented.

2012.02.18 - updated back-end started to roll out. changes for back-end will slowly come in/message pages updated. seems like we're being spammed.