WaltOHara | 06 Nov 2021 10:55 p.m. PST |
IF you plan on attending HISTORICON 2022, the Guidebook app can be a great help to you. Basically it takes the place of the printed program book and runs on your mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. For information how to get your hands on the app, go to this link here. link Thanks for the time and see you at the convention Walt O'Hara
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shthar | 07 Nov 2021 1:06 a.m. PST |
Will this work on my princess phone? |
Cardinal Ximenez | 07 Nov 2021 3:17 a.m. PST |
Unfortunately a bag phone is the minimum requirement. 😉 Always appreciated Walt. |
Royal Air Force | 07 Nov 2021 4:58 a.m. PST |
Hey Walt, the Saturday times seem to be off |
Oddball | 07 Nov 2021 6:57 a.m. PST |
Does it list where the mask pick up and drop off locations are for those that forget them? Gotta follow the rules. |
Cardinal Ximenez | 07 Nov 2021 7:10 a.m. PST |
Download is quick and easy. Not able to attend and this will be a nice way to see what's on the schedule. Thanks again, Walt! |
WaltOHara | 07 Nov 2021 8:58 a.m. PST |
Royal Air Force, message me, i can fix any errors before the show. Walt |
AuttieCat | 07 Nov 2021 9:06 a.m. PST |
#1 Reason why I will not be attending: There is always some body who pushes the rules. If you forget to bring a mask, then I suggest that you stop at a store and pick a box or two of them up! Tom Semian Irvine, PA. 16329 |
Royal Air Force | 07 Nov 2021 9:39 a.m. PST |
Walt, messaged you via Facebook |
Rustycop Retired 2019 | 07 Nov 2021 11:13 a.m. PST |
Just downloaded the app took minutes to do. There's a lot on it to use. Should be a video on how to best use it at historicon. This is a great tool. It's like my Disney app. The only thing I didn't care for was the first thing you see is MASK are now required at Historicon. We get it already. Great job Walt. |
WaltOHara | 07 Nov 2021 11:29 a.m. PST |
A Video, that's actually a GREAT idea. Any volunteers to capture footage at the con? I'll film it and put it together for the next one. I agree, I think using it at the convention is the best way to show it. |
WaltOHara | 07 Nov 2021 1:07 p.m. PST |
RAF: thanks for pointing this out. I've found some errors in the data load, I'm going to do a line by line edit tonight and republish. To everyone: There will be an update at some point late tonight to fix some errors in the event data load. No muss, no fuss-- kind of painstaking, but we'll get it done. Walt |
Rustycop Retired 2019 | 07 Nov 2021 2:53 p.m. PST |
No need to explain Walt thank you for your efforts. |
enfant perdus | 07 Nov 2021 2:53 p.m. PST |
Used this at a previous convention and it was incredibly useful. Thanks Walt! |
Martyn K | 08 Nov 2021 6:55 a.m. PST |
I am having a few problems with the app. I don't know if it is just me or if there is a minor issue that needs to be addressed. If I go to the games list it is listing games by end time rather than start time. I do not seem to be able to find a setting to change this item. As a result of the above, when I go to a day (let's say Friday) the first game that I see is a game ending at 5am. On the details of the game it starts on Thursday at 1pm and Finishes on Friday at 5am. My guess is that the finish time was entered as am rather than pm by mistake. The second of these items would not be an issue if the games were listed by start time. My guess is that most players are trying to find the games by start time. Please take these comments in the spirit in which they are meant. I am try to alert you to a couple of issues prior to the convention so that they can be corrected. They are not intended to be critical. It is obvious that a lot of work has gone into this app and it could be very useful at the con. |
Martyn K | 08 Nov 2021 10:06 a.m. PST |
I also tried to post a discussion comment on one of my games and it says that my account is blocked and to contact the guidebook owner. |
Dadster | 08 Nov 2021 12:49 p.m. PST |
The link sends me to a Wordpress logoin screen. |
Royal Air Force | 08 Nov 2021 1:36 p.m. PST |
Dadster,click on the Third Point of Singularity link at the top of that page. |
WaltOHara | 08 Nov 2021 4:48 p.m. PST |
Martin, message me, I'll look at your listing. General comment. I loaded the data from the registration Friday and it showed no errors. However, after hearing from Ray (RAF) I'm currently doing a line by line audit. I admit, that didn't go well, so I'm changing it all one line at a time. First time this has happened in a decade. So I'm keeping records of all the changes I'm making to fix this and sending it to Guidebook so they can get the feedback they need. I'll point out that this app has been a huge help for the last ten years or so, this is just an anomaly, I think. They recently changed the infrastructure for the app to facilitate virtual cons during COVID, that might be the reason. Apologies if anyone is having trouble. If YOUR PARTICULAR event is jacked up, PLEASE, contact me. Make the effort to do so. I don't' want to put an inaccurate product on the street. I'm on Facebook, easy to find. Also email, see the about me on 3PoS (Third point of singularity). More direct link to the blog post: link Thanks for your patience, I'm chugging away at it as we speak. Walt |
Rustycop Retired 2019 | 08 Nov 2021 8:54 p.m. PST |
Thank you Walt again for your efforts. |
enfant perdus | 09 Nov 2021 4:32 p.m. PST |
Walt, the thing I consistently noticed is that many events have the wrong end time. The bright side is it seems to always be an obvious error (e.g.., an event lasting 16 hrs) and I only noticed because as I was adding my events to my schedule it kept telling me I had conflicts with previous or upcoming events. |
WaltOHara | 09 Nov 2021 11:49 p.m. PST |
Note everyone. I just pulled a 3 night slog fixing the problem. The consistent error would be that the end time would usually be hours behind what it was scheduled for. I've just going in and redid all the events one by one. Solution: open guidebook up on a device that can attach to the internet. It will update with the revised information and update the schedule. Thank you for your patience. Walt |