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Changes and Acknowledgements

Changes to Events in the Area are not noted here. A summary of the latest changes is given at the top of the Diary page.

Changes

Last Change 11th July 2008

  • The 2008-2009 season committee members are now listed in our Contacts.

Changes 1st July 2008

  • Included music from the CD ‘A Tribute to Derek Haynes’ in various lists in Club Resources. This includes ‘The Celtic Cross’ which is on our dance as well as a number of other popular ones we were missing the music for.

Changes 27th May 2008

  • Fixed the colour coding for popularity changes in the dance lists referenced from the Club Resources page.
  • Fixed a nasty bug in popularity ratings where I had treated recent events as further away in the current year!
  • Improved hardness rating algorithm to use whether a dance is first, last, an extra, or starred as hard in a programme. Future work on hardness will try to use MiniCrib to give an initial hardness rating to the less popular dances as they don't appear often enough in dance programmes for the current algorithm to work well.

Changes 24th May 2008

  • We have stopped for the Summer.

Changes 13th May 2008

  • The site is on a new server. Better cache control has been implemented to cut down on unnecessary refetches. With the pdf changes last week it should all work much faster, that should complete the tuning for a while.

Changes 8th May 2008

  • End of Season: Please bring a plate for our End of Season on the 22nd May.
  • The pdf of notices in Events in the Area is now much smaller and loads faster. Monochrome images are stored as black and whie 300 pixels per inch rather than greyscale 150 pixels per inch.

Change 25th April 2008

  • Our AGM will now be on the 15th May, not the 1st. Sorry for the late change. 1st May will be an normal evening and will be taken by Lilias.

Changes 14th April 2008

  • Images of notices in Events in the Area added from now on will be about 50% bigger but will look much better when printed and the OCR (optical character rcognition) will be better. (The latest additions are listed at the top of the diary page,and the OCR text can be got by selecting and copying as if the image is text)

Changes 8th April 2008

  • Dance and music lists in Resources updated. Popularity now colour coded according to recent changes. The spreadsheet is removed to stop google trawling though it and it wasn't of general use.

Changes 13th March 2008

  • Made the site more mobile phone friendly (hopefully!)

Changes 12th February 2008

  • Put 3 hands round silhouettes on home page.

Changes 3rd January 2008

  • Added details of our Burns Night.

Changes 21st December 2007

  • After the very nice Christmas Social we meet on 3rd January.

Changes 17th December 2007

  • Removed some lists from resources as only of special use and a clutter (lists of cribs printed and missing music)

Changes 9th December 2007

  • Added a section Why should I dance with a note about the health benefits of dancing to the Introduction.

Changes 31st November 2007

  • Fixed problems in the dance lists in Resources

Changes 28th November 2007

  • Announced Christmas Social
  • New notices of external events will be listed in the latest additions section at the top of our Diary page.

Changes 13th November 2007

  • Added a description of how I assess dance difficulty to the Library.

Changes 4th November 2007

  • Added an mp3 of David Talbot talking about us on Richard Skinner on Saturday to the Library.

Changes 13th October 2007

  • Added a page for Photos of our events
  • Added indexes at the start of pages e.g. Introduction

Changes 4th October 2007

  • Added a number of new entries to Events in the area.
  • The Start of Season Dance is over so details removed

Changes 14th September 2007

Changes 20th August 2007

  • Added Chairman’s report to About us.
  • Added nice logo to Start of Season Dance, and added map to printable ad
  • Put BHS ad Scottish Dance week into Events in the area.

Changes 11th August 2007

Changes 24th June 2007

  • Put in new Google Map key on halls map, dunno why last one worked and then didn't
  • Cleared old entries out of Events in the area. Afraid the outdoor dance at South Hill Park was a washout.

Last Change 19th June 2007

  • Updated David’s phone number and corrected spelling of Maeve’s surname.

Changes 6th June 2007

  • Pruned any changes from before January 2007.

Changes 1st June 2007

  • We have stopped for the Summer and will restart on Thursday 6th September.
  • The Club Diary has been updated for the 2007-2008 season.

Changes 27th-28th May 2007

  • The new committee elected at the AGM is listed in the Contacts page.
  • Added Scottish Fiddlers Special Guest Evening on Wed 6thJune,
    St John’s End of Season Social on Sat 7th July,
    and The Scottish Tattoo 2007 on Sun 30th Sept
    to Events in the area.
  • Added cribs for the Start of Season Dance, and put a short banner into the Home page.

Changes 3rd May 2007

  • Added the Farnham Summer Dance on Thursday 19th June, and the BHS Branch / Guildford SCDC Dance for Scottish Week 2007 on Saturday 15th Sept to Events in the area.
  • Added Bracknell’s 50th Anniversary and Farewell to the Highlands to Doug’s Notes.
  • Add the Quadrilles and the Lancers to Doug’s Notes.

Changes 21st April 2007

  • Added our Start of Season Dance with Craigievar 29th Sept to Events in the area.
  • We're having Deborah not Anne on 10th May.
  • Now use MSFilter to remove rubbish from the web files exported from Excel in resources. Also ensure fonts included in text type PDF.

Changes 14th April 2007

  • Added Frimley Summer Dancing on Wednesdays and the BHS Summer Open Air Dance Sun 16th June to Events in the area.
  • For wider compatibility version 4 of Acrobat PDF is now used instead of a later version.

Changes 5th April 2007

  • Added Maidenhead Afternoon Tea Dance Sun 13th May to Events in the area.
  • The website has been moved to a new host, a noticeable change is you can now bookmark individual pages.

Changes 11th March 2007

  • Added BHS Border Branch May Ball on 19th May to Events in the area
  • We've booked Craigievar for a Social Dance at Carnation Hall Winkfield on the 29th September. Full details will be put here when we've completed the programme.

Changes 15th February 2007

  • May 3rd social night has been cancelled due to local elections.
  • Added Argyll SCD Day School on 21st April to Events in the area

Changes 29th January 2007

  • Burns Night and Lynwood notices removed.

Changes 21st January 2007

  • We’re only having the omnivorous haggis for Burns Night as no-one said they preferred vegetarian. Plus we’re having some poetry reading.
  • Lynwood starts at 2.30 (not 3.00). Better arrive a quarter of an hour earlier to find the place and change. Put pdf of cribs and map on web.

Changes 4th January 2007

Changes from before January 2007 have been pruned.

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Acknowledgements

David McQuillan set up this website.


Spyce
A Python Server Pages program used here to generate static pages.


District Tartans.com
I used to use a background tartan pattern based on the Berkshire design by Rabbitt Goody but it clashed badly when I got the right colours for the logo.


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