Royal TS, my new favorite RDP client

Royal TS is my new favorite RDP client.  I was previously using Terminals, but the latest UI has me all confused and the favorites toolbar doesn’t seem to work for me.  Royal TS has a great UI and is very configurable.

Version 3.1.0.616

It has been a long time since the last update. Here are the changes:

• Support for storing and using a player's default/preferred jersey number and position.
• News postings will now be emailed to all players with specified email addresses, as well as individual subscribers.
• All pages now have a reference to new feed.
• Last but not least, performance ad bug fixes.

Version 3.0 details

What's new with version 3.0

• Site now runs on ASP.NET 2.0
• Mobile device support. View info
• Removed Reset password page temporarily for this version
• Calendar dates now show plus sign which is an add event link when the date is hovered over.
• Added weekly recurrence information to events
• Support for Print All Scorecards from a single date
• Sortable tables in Team Standings, Official List, and User List. More to come
• Added Print Officials Column setting
• Message of the day now taken from latest news headline
• Entering city and state will display list of zipcodes and user can click on them. (Ajax)
• City/State combo will now populate zipcode and state will automatically be filled in based on League's zipcode
• Game notes now supported. An icon that displays a hovering popup window will appear next to games that have entered notes
• Hide the sponsor box on the login screen
• Menu page will now show league account's paid through date
• Added default facility functionality
• Facility names now sorted in alphabetical order
• Feed icon will use the new LiveBookmarks icon that will be used in both FireFox and IE 7
• Better printing of game stats page
• Newer, prettier rss stylesheet (although it probably won't matter because IE7 and FF2 both supply a stylesheet of there own
• Add Event link moved to bottom of page next to Today link (view month)
• Add event link moved in view week page
• Changed cancel buttons to links that immediately browse to referrer url rather than doing a postback and then redirect.
• Added hCard microformat formatting where appropriate

Bug fixes

• Hide sponsor link when team sponsor is shown
• Fixed bug in Fixed Assign Players page
• Fix for ConsolidatePlayers when player is a captain
• When no division is selected and a player is not assigned, change unassign button to a delete button and allow them to delete player.
• Prevent login cookie from being accessed by javascript
• Fix for RememberMe setting not remembering user
• Better email address validation
• All font sizes (except in print media) changed to relative terms (small, smaller, etc.)
• Print font size changed to 10pt
• Fixes for various email clients (GMail, Outlook)
• Change password no longer allowed in demo leagues
• Hide Sponsor link on admin pages
• Fixed render problem with View Day page
• Email is now a required field when creating a user
• Don't show league sponsor on Contact Us page (too confusing)
• Hide coaches row if not logged in and no coaches assigned to team
• Event export now correctly handles multi day events

Version 3.0!

Version 3.0 was released today! Details to be released soon.

Version 2.4.1.3

• Coach users can no longer modify the teams when updating game scores
• Better error reporting detail to site administrators
• Better tracking of active users per league. This information will be displayed in future versions. Currently only available to site admins.

Version 2.4.1.1

A few very minor bug fixes were posted.

• Try to handle a problem parsing numbers when unassigning a player from a team. I still haven't figured out why the value isn't formatted correctly, but now you will not get a fatal error. It will just refresh the view (which will most likely fix the problem and you can try again. I will still be able to see that you had problems, just won't get a fatal error.
• Fixed logic that reported an error when deleting a facility, even though the facility was successfully deleted.

Version 2.4.1.0

• All links to maps now go to Google Maps
• Bug fix for Show Next Player and Show Previous Player links
• If your league options are set to NOT show rosters, then the Game Stats link will not be shown.
• quickSub updated to 0.3.5
• Fixed link to available leagues on error page
• Calendar labels admin page - Labels are displayed better to show what they'd really look like on different background.
• More XHTML/HTML Validation
• More error handling for recent
• Added more definitions of bots to the list for better bot management
• All sorts of behind the scene stuff added for future Flickr and Google Maps integration
• The next update will hopefully be to upgrade the app to the .NET 2.0 Framework

Version 2.4.0.0

• Default sort order of Team Standing page now adjustable.
• Hopefully redirecting bots to a 404 error will prevent them from requesting non-existant playerID
• Now supports Show Next Player and Show Previous Player on Team and Division
• More XHTML/HTML Validation
• Added help for Captain field on Team edit page
• Help file was being left open across requests. Fixed
• Use Ajax.NET v5.6.2.1
• Ajax functionality added where full page postback is not necessary.
• Removed delete link from roster. Players should only be unassigned. Orphaned players will be removed automatically.
• Ajax method results are now cached appropriately
• Better error reporting when requested league is not found
• Added Security check to NewsSubscribers page
• Fixed crash when league had no statistics

Version 2.3.0.0

• New Ajax.NET library (Ajax is a technology that allows the web page to be updated without a complete page request and response from the server)
• Javascript Cleanup
• Fixes for better XHTML/HTML Validation and Accessibility
• Better exception handling
• Performance fixes for stat pages
• Fix for DefaultButton working in Firefox
• Fixed menu boarder color
• Added help to various pages
• Added Last modified data in admin section
• No longer write RSS feed requests to WebError table
• New team sponsor layout
• Now show "Advertise here" when Show Sponsors is turned on an no sponsors are available
• Stat fix for baseball
• Fixed "Menu" item being displayed when not logged in

Version 2.1.1941.26364

• Updated header control and styles.
• Coaches now allowed to edit game scores and stats. You must create a user and assign that user to a coach.
• Added some context sensitive help to various data entry pages.
• LeagueSettings page will now look up zipcode without a full page postback to server (more Ajax functionality to come).
• Fixed Zipcode validation error message
• Added fix for baseball Batting Average
• Fixed Total row when Jersey and Position are not displayed
• Added tooltip to remove Coach button
• Fixed margin above team standings
• Fixed error on AssignPlayers page when Player X selected in two rows.
• Valid HTML fixes
• Division selector now will contain valid HTML when chars like & and quotes are in the division name or group

Version 2.1.1910.19055

• Now using FreeTextBox v3.03
• Added Atom feed and quicksub menu to Game schedule pages
• Added support for Firefox LiveBookmarks on pages with feeds
• Fix for sponsor control displaying correct text for bots
• Fix for a few pages that choked with the browser's UserAgent string was blank
• Fixed delete coach not working
• Made Points and Ties columns hideable

Version 1.9 goes live!

Many new features and tons of bug fixes have gone into this latest version based on all of the feedback I have received over the last year.  I won't list all of the nitty gritty bugs here, but I will list the new features:

• News/Announcements - Blog style:  There is a new link in the menu called News that allows league admins to post announcements and updates in a blog format.  Visitors will be visually notified that there are new posts to be viewed.
• RSS support: News and schedule data can be subscribed to via RSS feed readers allowing site users to be notified of updates without having to visit the site.  If you want to know more about RSS, visit the RSS Specification site for more information and download an RSS feed reader.
• Calendar event labels can now have custom background AND text colors.
• Your facilities (rinks, fields, courts, etc.) can now be linked up to an online map via MapQuest.com.  Just edit your existing facilities and specify an address and a map link will automatically be provided.
• Weather data is now available in the calendar.  This feature will be expanded in the future.
• Facility conflict wizard:  Viewing your list of facilities will now show a column identifying any double scheduling conflicts for the same facility.
• Sponsor links: League managers can now add league sponsor links to their site and they will be displayed at the top of each page the user visits.  Logged in admins will not see the links (to avoid increased viewing stats) and view counts can be viewed by admins.  Tell your league sponsors they have one more line of communication with your customers!

Why only version 1.9 with this many changes you ask?  I hope to soon publish the 2.0 version sometime before fall seasons begin that will allow photo publishing.  This new feature will allow you to publish photos and associate them with players, teams, divisions, etc..  Use of this feature will, unfortunately, cost more per month, since I will quickly run out of my available file space with all of the leagues posting pictures.  Until that time, I am calling this version 1.x.  Just wanted to get all of these other features into your hands.

New League Manager Beta

I have been slowly working on a new version of the League Manager application in anticipation spring and summer leagues. The new version will incorporate many of the new calendar features that I have listed below in some posts and well as other new features to be described latter. The main aim of this new version was to create a more stable environment that requires less maintenance. I believe that there will also be some significant performance increases for certain pages. Please check out the following leagues and let me know what you think:

• Basketball
• Hockey

A demo soccer league will also be added soon, but please email me if you wish to see that league sooner rather than later (right now it is on the backburner, but if I know someone will test it, then I'll put it up asap). Also, if you wish to test the new site with your own league, I'd be happy to set it up. However, this being a beta, in no way shape or form is your data protected or guarenteed to be stable. Please let me know about any problems that you find. Please email all questions, comments, and concerns about the Beta to:
beta@onlinescorekeeper.com.

The OnlineScorekeeper.com server was affected by the SQL Slammer worm that affected large portions of the internet last weekend. The hosting company has applied the latest patches and the site is running along smoothly now. Sorry for the inconvience.

Added a way to subscribe to this news blog so that you will be emailed any comments and updates posted here.

Message of the Day

Just added a new option in the League Settings page for adding a "Message of the Day" to the header section for your league. You can let visitors know about upcoming games, signup information, or give them tips on how to use the site. You can enter any text and format it with HTML tags.

Added a new feature that will be expanded in the future if there is interest and use. Whenever you see a listing for a game, there will be an icon () that allows you to add a calendar event to your Microsoft Outlook, or Netscape calendar (most calendar apps will also be able to import the file as well). Those of you who use a calendar app with reminder capabilities will also like that a reminder is automatically added for you. Future improvements will be to allow downloading of whole player, team, and division schedules in a single click. Let me know if you discover any problems with this new functionality and if you have any suggestions.

More fixes and changes to the coaching section. Coaches can now be modified and deleted from a team from the main coaching list. Menu now shows when this news page was last updated!

Made a few more improvements/fixes to the printing side of things. If a table spans pages, the header will be reprinted at the top for each page. Also, removed the sorting arrows from the printed page. If you have any other requests/bugs for printing please let me know.

Added support for adding Bye games. Click Add game link from Schedule page and click the Bye checkbox. Only the Game date and selected Home team information will be saved. Bye games will show up in the division, team and player schedules.

We're using a new web host, called WebHost4Life which looks to be much faster in response times.

• Fixed more bugs. Well, not really bugs. More to the effect that I added more robust error catching and handling.
• More improvements made to the Coaching section. Now you can assign coaches from the team page (Edit team info link) or from the Coaches list.

Still no progress on the new calendar integration. Progress is being made on improving the new calendar, but integrating it into the League Manager app will take a major coding and testing effort. Any league/people willing to help with the testing, please email me. The new calendar functionality can be tested here: http://www.onlinescorekeeper.com/calendar/ViewMonth.asp?Calendar=Calendar Use admin as the username and no password. Please don't delete all events or muck with stuff you did not create. But do create as many events and as complex as you like.

• Many more updates made to pages dealing with coaches (I'm still not happy with the implementaion, but it works!).
• The term "Facilities" which represents rinks, fields, courts, etc. based on the sport, can now be renamed for the whole league. Now, if you play the sport at a Rink, then everywhere where the word Facility used to be displayed, Rink will now be displayed.

Added a page to allow league admins to change various league settings. The following settings can be changed:

• League name
• League url
• Whether to show facilties in game lists

Also fixed some bugs.

Working on integrating a new calendar that work similar to MS Outlook. New features will be the ability to create recurring events that you enter once, but are scheduled on a regular basis (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly). Also event labels that color code labels.

• Scorecard now show blank official lines when no officials are specified
• Added email links on team detail page when email addresses for players are entered. Link to email whole team now included as well
• Captain email link added if entered
• Other minor fixes
• Printing is now greatly improved, but only on IE5.0 and above, Netscape 6.0 and greater and opera 5.0 and greater.
• Various page elements shown on the screen are hidden when printed. This is all handled using CSS.
• The printer button/icon in upper right menu now just displays the browser's print dialog for easy printing.

Added this section to keep you updated about what happening at OnlineScorekeeper.com