Freezing Saddles Scoreboard backend "soft launch"

[hozn]

@cyclingfool 71796 wrote:

Thanks for all your work on the back end stuff!!! Having studies Pascal (of all things) in high school comp. sci. and dabbled with teaching myself some very basic Java, I am blown away by people that can actually do this sort of stuff.

No prob; I enjoy it. But I should recommend that you take a look at python instead! http://www.diveintopython.net/toc/index.html Perhaps a little less marketable than Java, but by far the most fun I have ever had programming.

@cyclingfool 71796 wrote:

Like acl, my rides are not appearing. I thought I’d figured it out when I realized I hadn’t joined the Bike Arlington club on Strava, buy I’ve done that now and given the FS page 30-45 min to see me and sync the couple rides I’d logged on Strava this week to help test with the soft launch, including one just this AM.

It looks like there is a bug in the sync code such that athletes are having their club (team) membership zeroed out — and then they are skipped for the next sync. I temporarily fixed it, but it might get reset. I should be able to run that to ground tonight or this weekend. (This is why we’re doing the pre-testing; thanks to everyone for helping out while we sort these things out!)

[Subby]

@peterw_diy 71664 wrote:

I prefer that BAFS not expose Strava profile info.
* I’d prefer that BAFS use my forum name than my Strava name.
* I’d prefer that BAFS use its own participant ID #s and not expose my Strava “athlete” number.
* I’d prefer that BAFS not show the names I’ve assigned to rides.
* I’d prefer that BAFS not expose my ride “activity” numbers, and certainly not link to the Strava display for those rides.

I’m new to Strava so I guess I’ll figure some of this out as I play with the soft-launch BAFS site, but it really gives me the heebie-jeebies thinking that BAFS could lead to exposing so much info — routes, days I ride vs. days I might be on vacation, rough home location, etc.

The site looks really nice. though. I like the ice blue color scheme. And thanks for putting the code on github. Note: I don’t see any license info; I’d suggest you clarify that so other localities can better judge whether they can just pull the code & run it on their own server.

I am a serial Strava friender and kudoser. Once I find out who you are, I will friend you on Strava and kudos your rides and you will be powerless against my relentless positivism.

MWUAHAHAHAHA.

Kudos!

[DismalScientist]

I think Strava should add a jeer button in addition to kudos.

[cyclingfool]

@hozn 71798 wrote:

No prob; I enjoy it. But I should recommend that you take a look at python instead! http://www.diveintopython.net/toc/index.html Perhaps a little less marketable than Java, but by far the most fun I have ever had programming.

The Pascal reference was just to date myself, though I suppose it was still helpful for helping me understand programming logic.

I have “Pocket”ed your python link for future reference at a time when I’m not inundated by work at the office and for grad school. Thanks for that. Python is used for custom scripts in ArcGIS, an interest of mine given my urban planning trajectory, so it may, in fact, be more marketable than Java in my case.

[cyclingfool]

@DismalScientist 71803 wrote:

I think Strava should add a jeer button in addition to kudos.

I would be mocked endlessly… :p If I had any friends on Strava, that is.

I have a feeling Subby’s gonna relentlessly track me down now.

[jrenaut]

@cyclingfool 71804 wrote:

The Pascal reference was just to date myself, though I suppose it was still helpful for helping me understand programming logic.

I have “Pocket”ed your python link for future reference at a time when I’m not inundated by work at the office and for grad school. Thanks for that. Python is used for custom scripts in ArcGIS, an interest of mine given my urban planning trajectory, so it may, in fact, be more marketable than Java in my case.

I never did Pascal, but I did C++ and FORTRAN in college (which probably dates me as older than I actually am). Then I did Java for work and thought it was great. Until the first time I tried Python. Python is better than Java in every way imaginable. For every problem that can be solved in five lines of Python, it can also be solved with 5 .jar files, 172 .xml files, a specialized server that takes 6 hours to deploy.

[dkel]

@jrenaut 71816 wrote:

I never did Pascal, but I did C++ and FORTRAN in college (which probably dates me as older than I actually am). Then I did Java for work and thought it was great. Until the first time I tried Python. Python is better than Java in every way imaginable. For every problem that can be solved in five lines of Python, it can also be solved with 5 .jar files, 172 .xml files, a specialized server that takes 6 hours to deploy.

Wait a minute…I was on the bike forum a minute ago…

:p

[Vicegrip]

@dkel 71829 wrote:

Wait a minute…I was on the bike forum a minute ago…

:p

..that was in english…

Big thanks to all that are making this not just work but work with all the little details that make it all the more fun and “local” but still pro in function.

[dkel]

@Vicegrip 71832 wrote:

Big thanks to all that are making this not just work but work with all the little details that make it all the more fun and “local” but still pro in function.

Hear, hear!

[creadinger]

@cyclingfool 71794 wrote:

Great point, although the basic metric measure for speed of this sort is usually kph.

m/s is reserved in common parlance for wind speed, at least in Eastern Europe. Why they didn’t just stick to kph for wind speed, too, I’ll never understand.

m/s is the official SI unit and is in all of the numerical models. kph is used just so that people can feel comfortable enough to go to sleep a night. kph is used in other realms like human transportation I guess, so people know it better.

[creadinger]

I see that names have been shortened to First name, Last initial and that there are 2 Chris R’s now. I doubt anyone would confuse me with the other Chris’ rides and mileage totals, but I would appreciate it we could separate ourselves so that I don’t log in and mistakenly think I’m in first place or something.

I can go by Christ, R or something. That’s what my name was on the Scantron tests in grade school….

[hozn]

Yes that was a known issue. I just pushed up the fix for that a few minutes ago.

[cvcalhoun]

I still don’t have a team, although I assume I’ll be assigned to one eventually. But I did give access to my data.

[hozn]

If you join the BikeArlington club your rides will show up during this test phase.

[Jason B]

Curious, Is there a way to check the competition from the strava site, like a club icon? I currently have to go through the link at the beginning of this thread, which is totally fine, but I just wanted to check if i was missing something.

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