Kids metre board

[jainser]

Had a quick look through the other forums but for the life of me can't remember where this was mentioned before.

Now I know it's very easy me sitting here (with a Barcardi & coke) but a separate metre board for the little Free Spirits is a great idea. My kids are (I think) enjoying it but it's a downer for them to be 200+

Either way is cool, really not trying to convice anyone to do it, as I have no idea what so ever how much work is involved.

....hang on what was that noise...........yes..............I think................no I'm sure......................it was the barcardi bottle calling me............................cheeky

[MaxDev]

Jainser - I think the only difficulty here is that a person's age is not visible on the C2 University standings pages. This would mean that JL would need to add an additional data feed - run once per FS member for whom the C2 ID has been determined.

However, it's not a huge amount of work, and probably simpler than his recent enhancements...

The datasource for a member would be:
http://www.concept2.com/sranking03/prof ... ex=<member C2 ID>

Parsing this will give the user's age (and biometric data, which could also be used at some point?). This could be used to set a flag (new column in the database table that stores the list of FS users) that denotes that the user is a junior.

Then a page needs setting up with a slightly modified version of the metre board code, which only extracts data for users with the flag set - this would give the Junior Metre Board (probably also want to add an additional column with the age in?).

Max

[jainser]

WOW I read all that and let me try to visualise to you what happened in my head.

Large empty space, light wind blowing in from the west and a large lump of bushweed rolling across

Seriously though, if it can be done and enough folks think it's a good idea, then great lets do it.

However the last thing I want ot do is load more work on to the guys that all ready have a lot work maitaining our great website.

Would it help if people who have kids just emailed/PM'd there ages/birth year across?

[MaxDev]

WOW I read all that and let me try to visualise to you what happened in my head.

Large empty space, light wind blowing in from the west and a large lump of bushweed rolling across

Haha Well, I guess it was a bit "techie speak" - as a database programmer myself, I guess I sometimes fail to remember that not everyone does this kind of thing for a living

However the last thing I want ot do is load more work on to the guys that all ready have a lot work maitaining our great website.

Would it help if people who have kids just emailed/PM'd there ages/birth year across?

Yes and no.

Yes - it removes the extra data feed, scheduling this job, parsing etc., but the database changes and new page for the Junior Board are still required, so maybe one-third less work to set it up in the first place.

No - the problem then becomes one of maintainability (a concept of fundamental importance to software engineers) - when a new junior member joins the club in the future, JL would have to add their details to the database manually - obviously not ideal.

The advantage of extracting the data from the C2 profiles is that it is all automatic. Once the new code is written, an U19 (or whatever we decide constitutes junior) who joins FS would immediately appear on the junior board as well as the normal one.

Given that the actual amount of work involved is (I think) relatively small, it's probably worth doing 'properly' - getting all of the data (where it can be obtained) from C2.

Max

[Thomas W-P]

Jl has amazing skills. I thought that the easiest way would be to add a "I want to be in the junior metre board" button on the individual page.

Then we can opt in and out. I suspect this would be minimal coding on JL's part.

But what for their target? I was thinking we could havea series:

Height of Mount Everest
The width of the English Channel
etc.

[BorisZ]

I can place good i.v. access, if you like, and can prevent the patient from moving! If this is what you are talking about...