Development Log

"Rome was not built in one day..." - Here is the history of We We Web ^_^.

• 2008-11
• Draw goes beta.
• Start developing Go. Will use "GNU Go" as robot service.
  
• Go goes alpha.
  
• 2008-10
• Start developing Draw.
• Draw goes alpha.
  
• 2008-9
• Fixed the bug that makes GBridge will hang on the 128^th game.
• Add the chat channel feature.
• Add user define message colour feature.
• Add chat window.
  
• 2008-8
• Both web page and application are migrated to UTF-8 encoding.
  
• 2006-12
• Improve Chat Message Window. Add font color and emotion icon. Requires Java Version 1.4+.
  
• 2004-12
  • Start developing WAREXP.
• 2004-9
  • Add option button.
• 2004-7
  • Start developing Trivia.
• 2004-4
  • Add steak in player records.
• 2003-12
  • Gammon go beta.
• 2003-11
  • Gammon go alpha.
• 2003-10
  • Start developing Gammon.
  • Add Word Search Game.
  • Add rating to GBridge.
• 2003-5
  • CChess robot: change static position position score.
  • Statistic Rating System modified: players with statistic rating difference more than 400 cannot earn/loss rating when playing with each other.
  • Bridge robot can bid now (use Natural and complete open bid and first response)
• 2003-2-16
  • Add the MOVE LOG feature to CChess.
  • Fixed a bug in CChess which cause the game hanged after 128 moves.
• 2003-1-19
  • Add more intelligence to Snooker's Robot Haha
• 2002-10-18
  • Snooker go alpha. (Two ball may overlap, only can hit white ball's center)
• 2002-6-28
  • Start developing Snooker.
• 2001-11
  • SkyDog goes alpha, scoring and user interface should be improved.
  • Start developing SkyDog (The Old Chinese Tile Game)
• 2001-7-8
  • Chess goes beta, haven't implemented the En passant captures, 50-move rule and three-fold repetition.
• 2001-6
  • Start developing Chess.
  • Checker goes beta.
  • You can click the player list for selecting private chat.
  • Start developing Checker.
• 2001-5
  • Connect4 goes beta.
• 2001-1
  • BBoss: add horse feature.
  • BBoss: robot knows loan and sell property.
  • Server added connection pool to enhance database connection.
• 2000-12
  • BBoss fixed the bug of can't refresh screen after pressed OK in the sell/loan window.
  • Wetris add darkness magic.
  • BBoss add hosiptal feature.
• 2000-11-8
  • Wetris goes alpha.
• 2000-10-15
  • Start programming Wetris.
• 2000-08-25
  • Fix IE can't display opponents' mahjong tiles.
• 2000-06-19
  • Big2 added double click for playing single card.
• 2000-06-14
  • Army go beta.
• 2000-05
  • BBoss add watcher function.
  • Start developing Army.
  • Plane go beta.
• 2000-04-13
  • Start programming Plane.
• 2000-04-05
  • Wisk add rating.
• 2000-02-01
  • Big2 add rating.
• 2000-01-17
  • Xword add rating.
• 1999-09
  • Add a new dictionary (170,000 entries!) to Xword.
  • Start developing BBoss.
• 1999-08
  • Add rating system to Apple, CChess & Marble (2 player games).
  • GBridge go beta.
  • Reserved the domain name weweweb.net
  • Start developing GBridge.
  • Add scroll function to enlarge the gameroom.
  • LastCard: Add last status, auto draw and win message box.
• 1999-07
  • LastCard go beta.
  • Start developing LastCard.
  • Add 20 Best Fans Ranking.
• 1999-05 
  • Web page user registration implemented.
  • User database is changed to relation one.
  • Program level add user disabled.
  • Watcher icon added to game room.
• 1999-04-29
  • Marble: Fixed the robot's looping move at end play.
• 1999-03-01
  • Start developing Mahjong.
• 1999-02
  • CChess: Fixed robot's long check & null move.
  • Big2: Teach robot to 'play big' on opponent's last card.
  • Marble beta. (no score system yet)
  • Start developing Five.
• 1999-01
  • CChess: Add pv search and mirror opening book.
  • Start developing Marble.
• 1999-01
  • Big2: Fixed the incorrect comparation of pattern A2345 vs 9TJQK.
  • Bridge: Display correct sort order: 234....QK in stead of A23....QK.
• 1998-12
  • Start developing CChess.
  • Big2: Fixed auto-select flush and 4-of-a kind.
  • Big2: Fixed watcher function.
  • Apple: Fixed invalid current player indicator for watcher function.
  • Big2 Beta (know problems are: stupid robot players; can't auto-select flush and 4-of-a-kind; watcher function)
• 1998-11
  • Start developing Big2.
  • Apple Beta.
  • Introduce the web redirect address: http://i.am/weweweb
  • Bridge: Add view last trick.
  • Start Apple development.
  • Bridge: Fixed out-of-sequence problem.
  • Bridge: Fixed even game wrong declarer.
  • Bridge: Fixed bidding board scroll down problem.
  • Bridge: Add watcher function.
  • Bridge: Add view bidding board.
  • Bridge: Add display win/lost tricks number.
  • Bridge Beta (View last round card, view bidding board, watchers function missing).
• 1998-10
  • Add images to the 'We We Web' homepage.
  • Add Xword's how-to page.
  • Finished preparing the play cards images.
  • Start developing Bridge.
  • Implemented reoder function for Xword.
  • Xword completed (features fixed).
  • Implement watched player's picture shown in watcher's screen.
• 1998-09
  • Sound feature disabled because it can make the program hang.
  • Sound added. (Click...click...ding...ding)
  • Finished the watcher list (dialog version).
  • Add both the server & local dictionaries for Xword spell checking.
  • Xword blank tile entry icon cannot appear when game start.
• 1998-8-23
  • The approximate date of WeWeWeb's first launch.