v0.2 Released

Version 0.2 of the site is finally released. It's not much like I planned and instead contains a much improved interface for results and performance. As well as looking better, both sections have click through or drill down. For example, from the inital Best Performances page you can select best performances for a race and then from there, best performances for an athlete.

As much as I would like to spend some time working on the stats page for v0.3, I really need to rework the FFA interface, to get in more data and also to restructure the database somewhat.

FFA Interface

The site now has a basic interface that allows importing race data from the FFA site. It’s been more difficult than expected due to the weird way the FFA presents its data, especially for distances. I’ve so far imported races for the last 6 months of 2010 although there a few missing due to a bug in the importer. I’ll import the missing race data and the data for the rest of 2010 in the next few days. Going forward should be much easier.

Next up is to work a bit on the presentation which is “bare minimum” at the moment. I’ve got a new race selector tool half developed so hope to get it out there soon.

Results web site v0.1 release

Due to some unforeseen spare time, caused by a bad back, I've been developing a web site that automatically crawls around the internet to retrieve and store race results for all the runners at my club, the Foulées de Saint Germain en Laye. The more visible part of the project is the front end that allows the results to be presented in various formats and can be found at http://FSGL.wni-sec.com.

It’s still very basic but it will get better as time goes by. I need to work on the presentation as well, not least putting it into French.

I’d like to emphasize that my motivation for the site is, to misquote Mark Zuckerberg,

“Sometimes you do something because you like building things”.

Anyhow, please feel free to leave comments, suggestions, general abuse etc... Any criticism is acceptable, but remember, I know where you live, or can probably find out.