Monday, November 29, 2010

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.

4 comments:

  1. Hi Nick. Good idea and like the feel of the site - copied directly from the club site but providing soem extra features. The race results and stats are fantastic but can you incorporate results from outside the Yvelines by looking up the FFA databases ?

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  2. Hi James.

    Yes I can. I need to adjust my "results gathering" program for the FFA site and I hope to starting importing data sometime next week

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  3. Hey Nick,

    Can you also find some former results? I'd like to check Michel Zoubiri's victories...
    Whatever, good idea, and i'll keep an eye on your blog.

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  4. I'll try to write an interface for hieroglyphic writing but it may take some time

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