[Maced] Carnival Manager
Garry Stokes
stokesg at tpg.com.au
Thu Jul 31 20:04:58 EST 2008
Yes, I thought that too .... I actually built my own in the early 90's
in HyperCard. I"ve done some thinking along the same lines re php, but
as a teacher eventually i decided that it failed the "schedule
feasibility" test.
When you make it, cna you keep the web pages really simple, so we can
use lynx for even better perfomance? .I've found that some sort of
search on incomplete surnames is necessary, and it should really filter
the available students according to their age group.
I'm a bit mystified about why you compare it to something like iwork or
ms office ... of course they are much more capable packages, but how
does the market for a sports carnival manager compare with general
office software?
Adam Rice wrote:
> Actually I downloaded it and entered test data
>
> It is built in FileMaker Pro and simply pulls simple data between pages.
>
> While it might be terribly useful, I can't see, from a development
> perspective, why it is worth $200
>
> A database is kept of the athletes, events, houses, and basic
> preferences like the name of the carnival.
> Simple look ups are used to combine the data into a rather
> non-intuitive interface.
>
> Because there are very minimal smarts included in the package, you
> have to keep jumping between sections to configure the event and you
> really need to sit down with the package for a while and learn how it
> works.
>
> Given that a full price, retail, copy of iLife or iWork costs $99,
> Microsoft Office costs $249, and a program that let my phone control
> my computer, change iTunes, puts presentation notes on my phone screen
> and lets me change slides, and includes proximity and call sensing
> over WiFi or Bluetooth so that my music turns down when I'm on the
> phone is only $23.95, I believe the price for this is too high.
>
> You would be far better off building this in PHP with MySQL. It
> wouldn't take very long, would be customised to the school, could be
> integrated into current services.
>
> Then, once the proof-of-concept version was finished which would
> replace all the functionality of Sports Carnival Manager, you could
> look at configuring it to feed off the already established user list
> in the Open Directory server (obviously writing the athletes list to
> the database so that it would work even when the computer was not on
> the network as is likely during a carnival) and it would work cross
> platform without the requirement of any downloads. Could also look at
> having it automatically roll the current events on screen on the day
> so that you can easily tag the winners of events.
> In carnivals where there could be some distance between the main tally
> room and some events (athletics comes to mind) you would be able to
> use an Ad-Hoc network in the field to establish satellite results
> tables that allow real time feedback on events.
> My brain is almost exploding with the possibilities :)
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> On 31/07/2008, at 5:58 PM, Jason Bradley wrote:
>
>> You've obviously never used the program??
>>
>> On 31/07/2008, at 5:19 PM, Adam Rice wrote:
>>
>>> Oh my.... $195 ex GST to manage a carnival.
>>>
>>> That seems a little rich... particularly since I can't see what it
>>> does that you couldn't do in Excel in about 30 minutes.
>>> *
>>> Adam Rice*
>>> K-12 Education Manager - Brisbane & Sunshine Coast
>>>
>>> *T* 07 3914 5344 | *F* 07 3852 4068 | *M* 04 3177 6211
>>> *A *Suite 1, Unit 29, 25 James Street
>>> * * Fortitude Valley, Queensland, 4006
>>> *E* arice at mac1.com.au <mailto:arice at mac1.com.au> | *ABN* 96 983
>>> 779 822
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>>> On 31/07/2008, at 4:32 PM, Jason Bradley wrote:
>>>
>>>> This one Jock?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.typeanddesign.com.au
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Jason
>>>>
>>>> On 31/07/2008, at 3:37 PM, Jock Webb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know if the company that sold Carnival Manager is
>>>>> still running. We seem to have lost our original- ****sports
>>>>> department.
>>>>> Jock
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