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I’ve purchased a domain pongposition.com and will be developing there.

To recap the project, I’m creating a web application that will track scores and rank players for the ping-pong league at my work. I’ll be using PHP, SQL to manage the data (pushing my skills), and I’ll build a nice little ajax interface for it (much more at home).

Visually and technically, the app will be broken up into 3 sections for a simple phase 1.

• Leaderboard – this will rank the players, I may borrow some of the algorithm my buddy the iceman came up with.
• Game Entry – this section will be the form where you enter game data, win, loss, skunk, etc.
• Recent Activity – I’m going to time-stamp and display the results of the most recent games.

Folks at work, if your reading this and thinking, “What the hell, I thought we were developing this together!”, I’m really just doing this to test my dev skills, maybe we can modularly break it down and use it for the collaborative effort, but I’m doing this mainly as a test for myself.

Well, that’s it, I’m off to it! Check back for progress.

Whether my version cross-pollinates with the Touchwood version remains to be seen. I still think it would be a fun excersize for me to put my mid-level php & db skills to the test. The basic functionality would be as follows;

• Ability for players to enter match wins and losses.
• An algorithm that would sort players based on past performance, upsets, wins & losses.
• Maybe some fancy AJAX updating.

In my typical fashion of over-planning under-developing I’ve already come up w/ phase 2 features.

• User registration w/ league setup, probably on top of Drupal or similar.
• Email notifications w/ a dispute score feature.
• AIR widget that allows upload from desktop.

Hey, Killerspin, Butterfly and Stiga! Let’s talk sponsorship!