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October 25, 2009 11:41 p.m.

Haunted Wisconsin is On Your Phone

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Posted By: Andy

UPDATE (2010-02-20): This feature is temporarily disabled. Do you like Haunted Wisconsin but wish it traveled with you everywhere?  Well, now it does.

Send a text message with a city name or event name from ...

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October 7, 2009 6:24 a.m.

Great Pumpkin Down

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The giant pumpkin at the state fair grounds off of highway 94 was taken down by high winds last night.  The clip I just saw on TMJ4 said they will try to get that Halloween ...

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October 4, 2009 1:51 a.m.

Biggest Fan Haunt Night

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I'm sure you will be hearing more details from Johnny shortly but here is a quick summary of tonight.

Our biggest fan contest winner, Teri, may actually travel farther and to more haunts than ...

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October 3, 2009 3:56 p.m.

Four Reviews Already

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I just refreshed the reviews page and noticed four new reviews.  Thanks everybody!

We will be heading out to meet the contest winner in a few minutes.  I hope there will be a ton of ...

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October 2, 2009 1:47 a.m.

Historical Reviews

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Ever want to see reviews from previous years? Well now you can without digging through our archives. Event operators have been asking for this feature for quite a while and we finally made it happen ...

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October 1, 2009 11:38 p.m.

Hubertus House of Horror

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This is just a quick note to anyone who missed Hubertus House of Horror last year. The haunt season is just starting so now is a great time to visit those big name haunts that ...

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September 12, 2009 1:35 a.m.

My Fright Finder Updates

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We're working hard on My Fright Finder and hopefully we can make it a useful tool for remembering haunts you want to visit and planning scary nights out.

I added some basic functionality tonight ...

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August 8, 2009 3:21 a.m.

Making Things Nicer

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Today we upgraded the sites underlying framework to Django 1.1 and fixed the various bugs that cropped up.  Let me know if you run in to any zombies caused by the upgrade.

I made ...

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July 26, 2009 10:59 p.m.

Zombies and iPhones

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We've added zombies somewhere on the site...

Also, we're experimenting with an iPhone interface located at http://www.hauntedwisconsin.com/mobile/.

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July 19, 2009 11:11 p.m.

Lots of Small Updates

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Jenny and I made lots of small updates to the site this weekend.  Some of the changes are:

  • Added e-Ticket info for events
  • Some cosmetic changes to the event pages
  • Using your message board account ...

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October 24, 2008 6:21 p.m.

Review Comments

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Posted By: Andy

There have been a few requests to put comments back on reviews.  The feature is now back.

Comment away!

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October 17, 2008 3:04 p.m.

Seven Scares to See

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There is something creepy going on in Wisconsin and you don't want to miss it.  I've been to seven events so far and I can tell you each one is worth whatever it ...

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October 11, 2008 8:41 p.m.

Reviews in IE7

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If you are using IE7, you may have noticed the text in reviews can disappear.  I put in a workaround for that rendering bug today.  It's the same workaround I put in for IE6 ...

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October 5, 2008 10:14 p.m.

Pardon The Dust

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Sorry about the intermittent errors throughout the day.  I was making a bunch of changes throughout the site and I cringed every time an error log flashed by as one of you attempted to load ...

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October 4, 2008 12:42 a.m.

Reviews, Accounts Fixed, Printable Event View, and More

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We made a whole bunch of updates today:

  • Fixed the calendar on event details pages
  • Added weather links to event details
  • Added a printable event listing view with lots of handy info
  • Fixed the accounts ...

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October 3, 2008 10:31 a.m.

Waukesha Feargrounds Today

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We will be at the Wisconsin Feargrounds located at the Waukesha Expo Center tonight.  Come on out and say "Hi."

This is a great time of the season to see this haunt because of the ...

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September 21, 2008 6:23 a.m.

Extraordinary Review Crew

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Last night I got to meet a few of the review crew members and it turns out they are as extraordinary in real life as they are online.

I don't know much about most ...

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September 7, 2008 11:20 p.m.

Fixed RC Application

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The review crew application had an annoying limitation of 200 characters for any response (and you got an unhelpful "500 Server Error" if you went over that limit).  This is the same bug we had ...

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August 10, 2008 10:23 p.m.

Lots of Updates

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It's been a while since I posted what we've been working on since I broke the blogs a few weeks ago.  Too much has changes for me to remember it all but here ...

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July 20, 2008 11:23 p.m.

Today's Updates

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  • Hooked up new calendar widget to the actual event dates
  • Combined address and location on the event details page
  • Added geocoded maps on the event maps and direction pages

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July 20, 2008 12:55 a.m.

Site Update

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Between yesterday and today, I implemented the following:

  • Linked site accounts to message board accounts
  • Profile page only shows blog info if you have a blog
  • Linked blog summaries to the author email and main ...

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July 19, 2008 6:44 p.m.

Waukesha Bartz's

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There's a new Bartz's coming soon in Waukesha.  The obviously moved the store from Brookfield to Waukesha to be closer to their biggest customer....Jenny.

Exciting times!

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July 14, 2008 12:16 a.m.

Today's Updates

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Today Jenny and I worked on a few more things:

  • Added a calendar to the event details
  • Added contact information to the event details

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July 12, 2008 7:25 p.m.

Today's Updates

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Jenny and I spent the day on getting Haunted Wisconsin ready for the 2008 season.

  • Added nicEditor Editor for blog posts
  • Press Releases - Moved to Site Information section and took out haunted attractions and”
  • Submit ...

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