Lap Time Results??? Who's in charge?

[kl3640]

Yes, that's part of the reason I haven't touched the site.  I also have a 17 month old. :)

I wouldn't hold my breath for Westhold to come out with anything new, but they could surprise me.

The reason the links are broken is cause goDaddy installed .NET 3.5 CLR on the hosting machine and I'm assuming the datagridview control that produces that code is not compatiable with 3.5.  The site was developed using the 2.0 framework.

I just haven't had the time with the new child and moving houses this year to take a look at it.

Plus I have a bike with no forks sitting in the garage right now.  It needs new bodywork and a bunch of other stuff... 

I have a Win 2003 Svr R3 VMS, w/SQL Svr Exp and IIS, on to which we can put the 2.0 release of .NET.  I could get a domain to point at it, we'd just need to use a non-std port for the http daemon (which we could put in DNS) and create a unique db instance.  It has plenty of space and bandwidth and two public IP's.  Let me know if you have the time (although a transfer would probably take just as much time as a code update to .NET 3.5 compliance; but at least I could help with the former).

[r1owner]

POS   that stands for Professionally Offered Stuff       right, Scott ?     

Yeah.... uh yeah..... that's it! :)

[BowleroftheYear]

i dont see the amateur middleweight supersport race posted for this past weekend at summit

[r1owner]

If you guys want to see the results, you're going to need to email CCS.  I doubt they read these threads.

[SimplyRed]

First, Kudos to Scott for creating the Lap Times site pro bono.

I second that.  For the longest time, laptimes were not available online.  Now, they're available 2-3 days after an event.  Big step forward - thanks!

[Peter.BoyWonder]

Is it just my browsers or are all of the links on the lap times/results websites blown out? I have to call that javascript function by pasting it in the URL bar of the browser and passing my competition number as an argument. Seems like that is happening in IE 6, 7 and firefox.......or is that what this whole thread is about in the first place? I am a .net guy so I could help some if needed.
-Peter

[Russell2566]

It's an output issue not a browser issue.

I've spoken to Scott briefly and I am going to take a stab at writing a new lap time viewer. I'll have to chat again with Scott about getting old data and I have no idea if CCS would actually upload to a new location, but I'll get something worked out.

I've got certain features I already plan on implementing and Scott made a few good suggestions as well. Feel free to PM me with any suggestions as well. I'm sure it will take me a week or two to even get a Beta out, so be patient with me :) After I get things running as well I'll consider making the app open sourced with Subversion access for anyone who wants to contribute.

[Russell2566]

A few features so far on the top of my list:

• Email notification
• Rider Comparison to your self or any rider
• Trending & Charting
• Data Exporting
• Ability to add your own laptimes from say other practice events or non-ccs to be used in charting
• UI that allows you to more easily see YOUR laptimes
• ...

[Peter.BoyWonder]

A few features so far on the top of my list:

• Email notification
• Rider Comparison to your self or any rider
• Trending & Charting
• Data Exporting
• Ability to add your own laptimes from say other practice events or non-ccs to be used in charting
• UI that allows you to more easily see YOUR laptimes
• ...

All of that would be well above and beyond any of my expectations! I would be happy with a list of lap times for each time that I was on the track! So do I understand correctly that this data comes from a flat file? If so, eeeew.

[Russell2566]

The data comes from a flat file generated by the scoring app, which I'm assuming Scott parses and dumps into MSSQL.

[bel-biv]

Scott - thanks for getting us this far.  It really wasn't long ago that there was nothing available for on-line lap time viewing

Russel - If you are able to implement your planned changes, you will never want for beer following a race day that I attend.

[r1owner]

Yes a flat file!  and ewww!  is correct.  Yes, I parse then import into MSSQL.

In fact, I think that whole Westhold product runs with flat files at the track.

Really IMO, CCS needs to have some way to simply associate a rider to a transponder.  As I understand it (and I could be wrong).  Each weekend, they have to key in something at the track to associate a rider to a transponder.  It would seem to me to be much easier to have a dropdownlist that they simply pick a rider from and then a dropdownlist of transponders.

If they did that, then you could very easily get all your laptimes from all your races ever.  As it is now, if one person keys in 717X one weekend for me, then 717EX the next, there's really no way to get the times from one weekend to the next and know for sure they are for me.

Back when I had time and the drive, I was thinking of implementing this very feature, but it would require some buy in from CCS as they would have to do some maintenance on their end.

But, the benefits are huge, cause then they could easily track a rider and their finishing positions.  Along with that comes.........  DING, DING.... POINTS automatically updated and viewable via the web.

All that said, CCS is doing a kick butt job this year getting results posted.