For all who haven’t noticed it yet: wetterturnier 2.0 is here! After two weeks of testing we decided to switch over from the existing server to the new system. For all the late players: if you login does not yet work please let us know! Simply write an email which HAS TO CONTAIN your username, email, and full name and ask for a new password. Send this message to Reto.Stauffer@uibk.ac.at or Georg.Haas@gmx.de. We try our best to respond as quickly as possible such that you wont miss the today’s tournament deadline!

Dear member

We’ll go live these days! We decided to go live (kind of an early release) these days! The next two weeks will not be official wetterturnier weekends, but we would like to open the tournament over Christmas to do some enhanced testing. The new system might be far away from perfection (by definition), but we are sure that it will enhance the usability and it ensures your and our future and allows to add some cool and enhanced features in the future. Please be so kind to write us if there is something suspicious or wrong, we’ll do our best do improve and fix the system where necessary.

Even if we have a very engaged team consisting of administrators, keen programmers and, of course, highly valued members behind us we do this as a hobby. So, if there are things you dislike or things not working please report (as detailed as you can) and be kind with us, we try to do our best to do the best for you!

All best, the wetterturnier team.

Dear participants. I’ve tuned and optimized parts of the tool to convert and store the incoming observations yesterday (Sunday). Was running out of time at the end of the day and found out that I’ll have to change to a different software now which–unluckily–was not available 2.5 years ago. I hope that I can fix this till the end of the week such that the available observations will again be processed correctly. Sorry!

Dear test-team! I’ve got the message that changing the password did not work. This bug should be fixed now and you should be able to set a new password. Simply go to your profile page and generate a new password. You can either use the auto-generated one or set you own. Please note that the system will inform you if your password is weak (too simple). You are still able to use this weak password by checking the “confirm use of weak password” checkbox, even if this is not recommended!

Please note that we are not running on secure HTTP on the development server which makes a man-in-the-middle attack possible. So for security reasons we suggest you not to use your standard password you are using everywhere else! 🙂

This weekend I’ve stored a snapshot of the points of all players every 15 minutes. The plot below shows the development of 4 different users in Berlin last Sunday and the corresponding points at a given time for three specific parameters.

• minimum temperature [top]
• relative sunshine duration [middle]
• maximum temperature [bottom]

I’ve just added two new small features. As soon as you are logged in you’ll see your username top right of the page in the black bar. When clicking on it you’ll be forwarded to the user-settings-page. This page now provides two wetterturnier-related options.

Bet-form orientation

This option allows you to set your personal default. The ‘overall default’ is the portrait mode. However, if you prefer the landscape mode simply change and save the setting here. It is still possible to switch the orientation on the front-end by clicking on the “switch orientation” button or by simply pressing “x” once on your keyboard if needed. Available options:

• portrait (which is still the overall default)
• landscape

Table styling

Our ww75 once mentioned that the contrast of the tables seems to be relatively low and it will be relatively hard to read the information. There is now an option to change the user-specific default table styling. At the moment three different options are available. The overall default is the same relatively neutral one with a lot of white. However, you can now switch to the two alternative styling’s called “contrast” and “orange-blue” (see below):

• default: the neutral white design
• contrast: brutal contrast (don’t take this too serious!)
• orange-blue: a version similar to the old wetterturnier

There are some freaky names in the system (both, the new and the old) related to the usernames. Some users have different names in the archive. A good example is ‘Züberle‘ which was called ‘Zueberle‘ and ‘Z?erle’ in the old system and resulted in ‘Zueberle’ and ‘Zerle’ in the new system.

This is the reason why you should never use special characters in your usernames, filenames or folder names ;). However, we have a procedure to simply merge such users with multiple names which has already be done with Zueberle.

If this happened to your user as well or if you see something suspicious in the archive please let us know! Thx!

If there would not be enough major things on the to-do list: I’ve just wrote a new (now jQuery based) plotting or statistics toolbox. At the moment only a smattering of features is available, however, in the future the tools might offer some more and cool features. It would be cool if you could give me a feedback whether it works as it should on your windows or fruit contaminated machines :).