runleaderboards.com

A few weeks ago I started a new project: http://www.runleaderboards.com/

It all started in late June when a friend of mine started a "Calorie Burn" challenge on facebook.  The idea was to get people off their ass and do some exercise.  We had around 15 people sign up and the idea was to use runkeeper.com as the main source to track activities.  It was a manual task of tracking who did what and who was winning in some type of spreadsheet, it was not fun, nobody wanted to be in charge of it.  So the project begins.  It is simple to sign up and link your runkeeper account.  Once that is done you join a challenge (or create your own and invite people) and sit back and watch (not literally, you'll have to complete activities in runkeeper).

Building New (old) Server

I am in the process of building a new server which is actually an older pc then the current server. The new one is about half as fast as the current one though I don't think you'll be able to tell. The Gallery might slow down just a bit but thats not really a huge deal being that the bottle neck is really my upload connection. I'm making the switch so that I can use the faster PC for my secondary PC which i use for testing apps and doing stats.

The change over will most likely be this weekend. The change is Complete

Transfer to New Server/Hosting

Over the weekend I worked on moving this site over to a new hosting service. Though it took about 8 hours to move the whole ikmyer.com site it was really a smooth process. The only reason it took so long was due to the size of the site which came in around 1.3 gigs ( most of which are images ). You will notice with the new hosting the speed of the site will be much faster. I think i have tested most of the sub sites of ikmyer.com but if you run into any issues please let me know.

Address Book

As a small php project I created an Online Address Book

Please feel free to sign up and enter any address you have to save. Your account is safe and no other users can view your address. Also has a "Christmas List" feature that will help when it comes time for christmas cards.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments