Archive for July, 2008

Trader Tuesday #3: Remember me and little fixes

Posted on July 29th, 2008 by vaheder

Apart from the little fixes that always pop up every now and again, we added two new features: Remember Me functionality and a new report. The new report allows our administrators to see the trades per day in the last 30 days, the last 7 days, or over all time. This allows for admins to [...]

Happy Birthday Xpree!

Posted on July 17th, 2008 by vaheder

Today marks our one year anniversary of the founding of Xpree! We even got a cake! Our cake: Our CTO Alam and our CEO Mat:The Team!

Trader Tuesday #2: Make me faster!

Posted on July 8th, 2008 by vaheder

This week’s release consists of several fixes of slow code, most notably in the Top Traders list. Look for new features next week in Trader Tuesday #3!

Memcached: Cache early, Cache often

Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by vaheder

This morning we took part in a webinar on the subject of Memcached, a caching system that can be used for speeding up all sorts of accesses to data that may originate from a database. Hosted by Sun Microsystems (who now runs the MySQL project), the WebEx conference went quite well from a technical standpoint, [...]

Trader Tuesday #1: User-generated tabs

Posted on July 1st, 2008 by vaheder

An exciting new feature has been added to the Xpree Prediction Market: user-generated tabs. Administrators can now add their own tabs to the interface, containing any information they want. This includes links to more information or documentation, site-specific FAQs or tutorials, and, most importantly, the prizes! Prizes that users can win for being their marketplace’s [...]

Trader Tuesdays!

Posted on July 1st, 2008 by vaheder

As an easy way for our users to anticipate and expect new features to the system, we’ve decided to introduce Trader Tuesdays, where a new release of the Xpree prediction market will be scheduled to go out on the appropriate Tuesday, with a feature list and explanation of features made available here, on the blog. [...]