Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
Älphä Blüë wrote:
[…]First, there’s naming conventions to consider for each team name. Each
website that houses schedules name their teams differently:ESPN names USC → USC
ncaa.org names USC → Southern California
[…]Isn’t there an XML feed or something that you could subscribe to where
this is already normalized? I know such things exist for pro football
(I think the provider I worked with was called SportsXML or something
like that).Best,
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]
Hi Marnen,
Yeah, eventually I can pull in data using an XML feed (as you
suggested). That will be the best method in the future. I’m kind of
just babying my app with the beginning load data so that I can hand
check things personally. Scheduling seems easy but it’s actually quite
difficult.
You have divisions, team names, formal team names, dates, times,
locations, week start containers, and the list goes on and on.
Once I have my site up and running and things are going well, I’ll then
be able to work on automating tasks like schedules.
I just wanted you to realize that I do agree with you. I’m definitely
for modular sites with a lot of automation to shorten work loads. I
just have limited time in order to get my site up and running before the
end of week 3 (which is when my subscription service will begin).
I’ll look into the company name you provided. I’m sure there’s a very
simple way of pulling in schedules that I can modify to work with my
system. However, right now, a lot of my existing app is
self-realization and still in discovery mode. I’m hopeful about getting
it up and running within the next two months but I may have to wait
until next season before I can deliver on my subscription service for
head-2-head…