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| Points and Silverlight | |
| 7/2/08 |
So -- do you like silly little things that look cool? Do ya?
Don't kid yourself, man. You're a cyclist. I know how you are. Of course you like shiny things. Good. Cuz we have a brand new silly little shiny thing on the head 2 head page... using the new-fangled RIA technology called Silverlight. Yeah, I know, you're gonna have to download a little installer (it'll prompt you) and maybe even restart your browser (sorry), whatever, it's the offseason, I know you've got time. In slightly more relevant news, the points are mostly recalculated. |
| Where mah points?! | |
| 5/8/08 | Yer points done had to go buh-bye for a lil while so we could improve the algo-rythm. Points done be back soon, ah promise. |
| California | |
| 4/4/08 |
We have twenty races from California in the database now.
Now that we're eating results from all over the nation, there are some fun problems with people who have the same name in different parts of the country. We'll have a system for resolving that stuff in place for next season... in the meanwhile, blame your parents for naming you "John Smith," eh? CXMag did a little blurb on us in their 2nd issue, so maybe you read it and that's why you're here. Or maybe you just google your name a lot. In any case, if you can't find any results here from your local race series, drop us some feedback with a link to the results website and we'll see about |
| Nationals Results | |
| 3/4/08 |
If you were holding your breath for Nationals results, well, maybe someone can print this out for your headstone.
Otherwise, here they are! Furthermore, there's some new Virtual Earth madness going on with the race pages. What the hell does Virtual Earth have to do with cross, you might ask? Fair enough. Here's what happened: (Scene: A rainy February evening. We see a bike racer drinking a cup of coffee, looking despondently at his grit-encrusted drivetrain) Cup of Coffee: You know what would be cooler than cleaning your bike? Bike Racer: What? Cup of Coffee: If you made a map showing where every cross race in the US was. Bike Racer: How would I ever get that information? Cup of Coffee: Trick the people who visit your website into telling you. Throw a mapping widget on there that lets them click where a race was. Bike Racer: It sounds like you just want me to write more code. Cup of Coffee: No, you should totally do it. Take another sip if don't believe me. (Bike Racer takes a large swig of coffee) Bike Racer: Thanks caffeine! You're full of good ideas! (End Scene) |
| An Ode to OBRA | |
| 1/28/08 |
The OBRA website is the best thing in the world. We can load new data from there SO FAST we're already past 2007 and heading right for 2006.
In somewhat related news, I am very, very sick of people who put things that have no reason to be a PDF in PDF form. Since this is a results site, it doesn't take a genius to figure out I'm talking about the nationals results, which got put in 40 different pdfs -- because the only thing I like more than wondering if Acrobat reader is going to hang firefox is trying to write a parser for PDF documents. But I totally understand why those things had to be in PDF format, they had images and tables. Maybe someday someone will invent a standard for putting images and tables straight onto the web... they could even call it "HTML" or something. Note: the above opinions are those of angry-programmer-man and not of crossresults.com as a whole, which in fact likes Nationals and still wants to be friends. |
| Cross Crusade | |
| 1/22/08 |
We ate the Cross Crusade. It was delightful. 1000 racers in a single event... database says "burp."
The new races are in the sidebar and also here. |
| The Skulls-to-Beers Ratio | |
| 1/14/08 |
Sometimes we think really hard before adding a new feature. Is this useful, or is it just an annoying number that only raging nerds care about? Do ads means we're sellouts? Do no ads mean we're idiots? Is someone going to murder me in my sleep because I wrote text that made them sound like a sandbagger??
This is not one of those times. This feature sounded so sweet that we coded it without even considering the ramifications: The Skulls-To-Beers ratio. Here's the deal -- we want to get some more info about races so we can hit the best ones next year. The pictures were a good start, but come on, this is a stats site -- I can't aggregate a bunch of picture URLs into a spreadsheet to make my 2008 race schedule, now, can I? (Note: Purely hypothetical. There is no proof I am already planning my 2008 season in Excel). Seriously, this is an unabashed ruse to get people to tell us where the coolest races are. So now when you see a race page, you'll be able to rate the race in the upper right. You can't see a race's ratings until you've voted, so you'll either have to stay in the dark or give us that precious, precious data. Let's not even pretend you have the willpower to resist, so get clickin'. Skulls are a measure of how hard the course was. Some people like courses that are really hard, some people like courses that are really easy, so low skulls are not a bad thing. Just let us know what you thought. More skulls = harder course. What defines a "hard course" is entirely up to you. Beers measure how totally frickin' sweet an event was. More beers = more frickin' sweetness. Unlike skulls, low beers are pretty much a bad thing, although I guess some people thrive on everyone else being unhappy. So let us know the frickin' sweetness of the event, too -- once again, by your own subjective degrees of awesome. |
| Heading West | |
| 1/9/08 |
The crossresults.com parser continues its inexorable march west across the nation, devouring the Team Lake Effect Series in Ohio and the Ohio Valley Cross Series. Not all of these morsels were tasty; in fact, a heavy dose of Excel was needed just to make a few of these web pages palatable.
Perhaps some day crossresults.com will be such a monstrous beast that it can dictate the format you put your results out in, but for now it will be content to sit the corner, meekly chewing on that jumble of html you call "results". And one other thing -- that CX Magazine link on the left is no joke -- there is a better than 0% chance you will read something about crossresults in the next issue. In the event you subscribe to CX Magazine just to read about us -- please note that I did not say 100% chance. |
| Y2K! Y2K! | |
| 1/3/08 |
Protip: If you write code that says "show the nemeses from the current year," that code will stop working on January 1st.
Bad Code Monkey! No tubulars! |
| Holy crap! | |
| 1/1/08 |
If this site goes down in the next 24 hours it's probably because $10/month hosting doesn't hold up so well to being the VeloNews Site of the Day.
This could easily account for tens of new visitors! |