14Dayz Scheduled Maintenance

Notice: Maintenance is scheduled to take place on Saturday May 31th between 10:00 pm and Sunday June 1st 4:00 am GMT. We apologize for the inconvenience. The last scheduled maintenance was almost 2 years ago, when in August 2006 we moved 14Dayz to new hardware and a new data center. Please check here for updates on our progress and background information.

Update: Maintenance has been completed
Please let us know at if you have any problems.

This release addresses:
- Increased internal accuracy of the application
- Increased consistency between the UI and the back end
- Decreased number of background http requests needed in the time sheet
- Various minor issues

Thanks for your patience, we hope you continue to enjoy Simple web based on-line time tracking with 14Dayz.

You've got 40 seconds...

This is a Doeo. Doeos are sneaky, pink and square little things that have the tendency to appear suddenly in unexpected places. They disappear just as suddenly and as quickly and for no apparent reason whatsoever. Doeos are quick, nimble, cheerful and of course utterly evil.

In this action packed and spectacular game by Raitendo your objective is to gather 100 Doeos in 40 seconds over 5 splendidly designed levels until you find and capture the Doeo King (Apparently they have a King) and finally put an end to the madness.

To gather a Doeo, just touch it with the mouse pointer. This is a fun game to help you improve your hand/eye coordination and mousing skills. Important for any professional takes their on-line presence seriously. (Okay, okay, you got me; it's just an excuse to play a game on Friday :)

Mouse over the Doeo below and find the Play button to start the game.

Playing tip: You don;t have to click the Doeos, just touching them with the mouse is enough...

Anyway, cheers and thanks to Marcus Richert for this well Designed and very original game! Happy Weekend!

PayPal language codes are warped

It turns out PayPal has changed the way language codes are working when you send a customer to make a payment. We've got it fixed now in 14Dayz so if you experienced a strange foreign language, that was PayPal on the fritz.

To help some fellow developers in the future who are wondering why is PayPal displaying the payment screen in the wrong language here is the missing documentation.

PayPal now uses country codes instead of language codes. Which is basically a false assumption by PayPal. It is often made by developers. In lots of countries two or more languages are spoken. Some countries even have two or more official languages.

PayPal uses the url parameter lc (language code)
lc =
US
GB
NL
DE
IT
FR


These are now country codes, before they used to be language codes so setting the English language would be done by putting lc=en. Now to set it to English just use lc=US for US residents or lc=GB for people from the United Kingdom. This will also pre-select the country in the pull down menu for your customer, so it's not all bad. :)
Also, it seems they now need the code to be in upper case where as before lower case seemed to work fine. Hope this helps.