Yesterday I registered a domain name for the hand converter to use. In 4-6 weeks I hope to up and running with the converter at a new location. It’ll be so much better than here, trust me - no more stuffing the code into Wordpress, which for all its brilliance was never really ideally suited to the job, and instead of a fairly derelict blog, there will be nothing but useful poker-related goodness to accompany the converter.

Not only that but there will be a bunch of new additions.

Since I changed the converter to only allow registered users to use it, I’m happy with performance (speed-wise), and you will need to be registered at the new site in order to use the converter there. Anyone who registers here will automatically have a user name at the new site, though, so you won’t have to go through any hassle to continue using the converter.

I’ll bring you more news as things start to move along a bit.

Happy converting!

April 27th, 2007, posted by Administrator in General and Hand converter updates · 4 Comments

Apologies for any inconvenience it causes, everyone, but I decided to add a requirement that users are logged in to this site to use the hand converter. There was enough of a chance, I felt, that it would bring an improvement in performance, and that would make you all happier, so you wouldn’t mind the one-time extra hassle of registering.

Don’t worry, though, I have no interest in any of your personal details, and I don’t know anyone that does, so your email addresses are safe with me.

If I can figure out a way of putting a poll up here, I’ll canvas opinions on whether there’s been an improvement. If not, I’ll have to take more drastic action like restricting the number of hands that can be processed at one time, or crikey try to write better code. I hope it doesn’t come to that or we could all be stuffed…

March 1st, 2007, posted by Administrator in Hand converter updates · 2 Comments

I’m still a little busier than I’d like to be, so I haven’t had time to work on the masterpiece that will be HandConverter 2.0, or to even fix the problems that are stacking up as comments against the hand converter. Please bear with me people, I haven’t forgotten you - as ever I am grateful to anyone who can find bugs (which isn’t always that hard, granted…) or send me hand examples to help me make the converter best in class.

I have a long term gameplan for something to do with the hand converter, but I don’t want to say too much about that yet. Regardless, I will put out a plain update before then.

Happy new year to you all!

January 12th, 2007, posted by Neil in Poker and Hand converter updates · 2 Comments

I can almost hear the collective whoops as word spread that the hand converter is back online. I’ve disabled some plugins from the site and made a few changes here and there, and while the converter was offline, everything seemed to run pretty smoothly. I’ll be looking to see whether that continues now it’s back online, or whether everything grinds to a halt immediately. If it does, I’ll need to go deeper into what could be causing the bottlenecks (as if it could be anything other than shoddy code I’ve written…) in order to improve performance. Slightly worryingly, the first thing that happened after I re-activated the hand converter was that it loaded up a blank page for me…

I hope you all have better luck!

September 7th, 2006, posted by Neil in Poker and Hand converter updates · No comments

• Added Everest support
• Added WPEX support
• Added i4poker support
• Fixed Party Poker NL pot miscalculations when blinds raise pre-flop

August 21st, 2006, posted by Neil in Hand converter updates · No comments

• Added the option to display large card symbols in the sample output. Currently the large symbols cannot be used in the output you copy and paste to wherever you are posting the hand, but I will add that at a later date.
• Added internet-texas-poker.net format

April 28th, 2006, posted by Neil in Hand converter updates · No comments