| Date | 05/01/2008 |
| Headline | Fixture Extravaganza, Twicknham |
| Details | Once again we are delighted to be able to ue the Invincibles Bar at Twickenham to host the annual meeting for all clubs looking to organise fixtures. The RFU, via Alan Black, have also agreed to at least provide food for the evening, although drinks may be a tad harder to come by! Our sincere gratitude to Alan for his untiring support for youth rugby.
The date set is Friday, January 25th and doors open at 6pm. There will be time to meet up with old acquaintances and make new friends whilst setting out dates for fixtures. All are welcome! |
| Date | 13/08/2007 |
| Headline | New Season Information |
| Details | Hello and welcome to the 2007/8 season! The exchange has been through a maintenance period and now looks fit to use once more. Subtle changes 'under the hood' should help make the use of Fixex a positive experience. All fees are now due (just £10 before the end of September as usual), and you can use Paypal to make life easier. Wishing you all a super season - we look forward to meeting you in January for the annual fixture extravaganza! |
| Date | 15/04/2007 |
| Headline | Close of season |
| Details | As the 2006/07 season draws to an end we will be shutting down the exchange for some maintenance to the software. Mostly, the database will be cleared of all fixtures in order to remove a lot of 'orphan' entries where teams have been removed but fixtures left in place. The current version of the software ensures all fixtures for teams are removed when a team is deleted, but there are still some 'legacy' issues to resolve. The shut down will take place towards the end of May, and the maintenance should only take a few days. An email will be circulated to all teams when completed. |
| Date | 28/01/2007 |
| Headline | Fixex Version 2 |
| Details | A new version of the software is almost ready! We have taken on board the valuable suggestions received and tried to build them in. You will now be able to change your password, add in your club web site and generally manage your club details more effectively. There are some minor bug fixes, too. We are hoping to add in some more features, including linking clubs to google maps so that you can see where in the world everyone actually is! A further development will be the ability to add in 'B' teams and development sides, but this will take longer to build. Keep those suggestions coming! |
| Date | 28/01/2007 |
| Headline | Extravaganza Report |
| Details | The annual meeting at twickenham was very well attended again this year, and our thanks go to the RFU for continuing to host the event and provide food and drink to the visitors. There were over 200 people from a wide number of clubs, and hopefully all made significant progress on their fixtures for the coming season. We also donated £300 to S.P.I.R.E at the event, but announced that from now on we would seek 'good causes' for the donation to go to. Finally, the new version of the Fixex software is nearly ready - thanks to all who suggested ways to improve it... we're working on them! |
| Date | 30/10/2006 |
| Headline | Small bug found! |
| Details | When a team is created and fixtures added for that team, they stay in the database even if you later remove the team from your account. This can cause problems later on where the number of available fixtures is shown to be wrong. To put this right we will be migrating to a new version of the web site as of early November 2006. This is an interim move, as a completely new version is being built ready for release in January. Hopefully, the January release will coincide with the date for the Fixture Extravaganza, which is usually held on the last Friday of January. |
| Date | 07/09/2006 |
| Headline | New Season |
| Details | The new season is upon us and if you are a Fixex member you need to renew your subscription if you haven't already. Subs are £10 for the entire club if you pay before the end of September, and £15 thereafter. Cheques made payable to 'The Fixture Exchange', please, and sent to the usual address.. |
| Date | 19/09/2007 |
| Headline | Under 13 Team Needed |
| Details | Lexus cars are running a festival at Chipping Sodbury RFC (just north of Bristol) and have a space this weekend (23rd Sept.) for an Under 13 side to join the event. If you are able to attend at such short notice, please contact Annabel Harrison, Lexus Marketing, on 0845 608 9090 |
| Date | 15/05/2007 |
| Headline | Close of Season maintenance |
| Details | The season for 2006/7 has now closed and the site will be taken off line for a while so that it can be upgraded. There are no major alterations planned, but the database will be cleaned out and re-set, leaving only the information for the clubs and teams intact. This will take place during June and July. If you have paid your subs for the new season already (back at Twickenham or whenever) then your account will carry forward automatically. If you have not paid for the coming season then your account will become 'pending' until a payment is received. Have a good summer, everyone! |
| Date | 04/02/2007 |
| Headline | New Version, New Bugs! |
| Details | On releasing the new version there was a bug when new clubs registered - they would not get any details sent in the automatically generated email. This is now fixed. We also momentarily lost the ability to view and/or edit your own fixtures. This is also fixed. As far as we can tell, this version now functions as it should, but please let us know if you find anything that isn't behaving as you would expect... |
| Date | 28/01/2007 |
| Headline | Peter Conner Award |
| Details | We have taken the decision to seek nominations for all future donations from the Fixture Exchange. Each year we have given our proceeds to S.P.I.R.E but feel it is now time to offer other good causes our support. In recognition of the work Pete Conner did to establish the exchange, and in his remembrance, we would like to invite you all to nominate good causes within rugby for the annual award to be made to. This could be for an individual who has overcome adversity to find achievement, or for a charitable cause who you think deserving. More news (and voting) will be announced presently. |
| Date | 07/01/2007 |
| Headline | Fixture Extravaganza 2007 |
| Details | The Extravaganza will be held on 26th January in the Invincibles bar at Twickenham. Starting at 4.30pm with light refreshments it will continue until 9.00pm, with dinner and a drink provided by the RFU. All are welcome - please be prepared to join the Exchange if you are not already a member (£15 per club per year). |
| Date | 15/09/2006 |
| Headline | Change to adding fixtures |
| Details | As of today, you can specify 'Home', 'Away' or 'Any' as your preferred venue for a fixture. Hopefully this will reduce the number of double entries in the database and help simplify how you use the software. Please let us know if there are any further refinements that you would like.
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| Date | 07/09/2006 |
| Headline | New Software! |
| Details | The Fixex software has been completely re-written over the summer, updating it from an older version of .ASP to be now running fully in PHP. Please let us know if you find any bugs, or if there are features you would like to see added in to the system. The Fixex Development Team. |
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