Schonhose

Well, that is the big question today. Not only haven’t I posted much on my blog, I even forgot posting photos on my photoblog (yet again). So what is the reason for this?

I have been working on a new webbased application which hasn’t got a name yet. But what it does is registering basketball statistics. There are quite a few programs on the market and none of those programs are either free or do what I want. What else was there to do other than trying to build my own? So over the last few weeks I did some programming in PHP, a lot of programming in MooTools and managed to get a working concept.

Below you can see a quick snapshot of the program running on the Samsung NC-10 netbook.

A couple of interesting facts:

• Was built using HTML, PHP and MooTools 1.2
• Uses a SQLite database to store information for each player
• Performs AJAX calls to store information in the database
• Can register made and missed shots per player
• Is able to distinguish shots from behind or inside the arc (based on direction of play)
• Keeps track of almost every statistics important in basketball
• Features a live-scoreboard for tracking the score and the time played
• Doesn’t have an admin interface yet

Leave a note in the comments if you have some ideas about either the program or what it should be called.