Winsford Swimming Club

Unofficial Experimental Site

This site is being developed by Oli Wright (Ethan's dad).

It's a small nerdy project I've been working on as a way to teach myself about web technologies.

All the information that I use in this site is publicly available on the ASA website. But it can be a bit unfriendly and slow and not particularly phone-friendly.

This site uses Google servers to 'scrape' data about Winsford swimmers from the ASA website. It then presents this data in what I hope is a more friendly and useful manner.

Take a look at the Swimmers or Personal Bests pages.

A new addition is the time conversion page, which lets you convert times between long and short course race times.

My ToDo list

Here's my list of things that this site doesn't currently do, that I'd like it to be able to do.

Make the PBs page 'linkable'. Currently if you set up a selection of swimmers, that selection is stored on your device in what's called HTML5 local storage. Which is all well and good unless you want to save a selection and then retrieve it later. I need to add the ability to optionally put the swimmers into the URL instead of using local storage, then you can send links with swimmer selections in them.
Fix the display of splits for longer IM races. Often the split times on the ASA site are nonsense (missing splits, or wrongly labelled distances), so I try to figure out what really happened. Most of the time what I've got works fine, but in some longer IM races it can get confused.
Add galas. This will include all qualifying times for all age groups so you'll be able to very easily see who qualifies for what.
Finish the Hy-Tek data import. Lots of our time-trial data is on this system and is not published to the ASA.
Add club records. Once we've got all our time-trial data in, then it should be perfectly possible to automatically generate club records.

What's New

18/10/2015

I finally got round to making the site update itself. So it should no longer matter that I keep forgetting to press the 'update' button.

17/7/2015

Improved the progress graph on the Swimmers page. This is my first piece of 3rd party software that I'm using, called Highcharts. Just click on an event name in the personal bests table to get a graph of the swimmer's progress over time for that event.

5/7/2015

Added the ability to 'upgrade' swimmers that I had listed as Cat1 to Cat2 when they're upgraded on the ASA website. Previously when I found a Winsford swimmer was Cat1, they were left as Cat1 indefinitely, so would never become visible in the app.

2/7/2015

Finally got round to adding a time conversion page that I promised a few people. This is like other swim time converters that you might come across, but I like to think mine is better. The conversion is done directly using the ASA conversion algorithm, rather than from the tables that were produced using that algorithm. And it runs in your browser, rather than sending conversion requests off to some server somewhere. That means it's fast, and it should even work without an internet connection as long as you have the page cached. As a bonus I've done a couple of extra slimmed-down versions of the page here and here, with different methods of entering times. Use whichever one you prefer. Conversions will also be stored in your browser history.

29/9/2014

Added icons for most devices. I don't have any Apple or Windows 8 devices, so I can't be sure these will have worked.

24/9/2014

Added the Swimmers page to the nav bar.
Added swimmer selector to the swimmer page if none is specified in the URL.
Swimmer page will update the page's URL and title when a swimmer is selected.
Changed the icon from the default app-engine icon, to the Winsford 'W'.

17/9/2014

Added the beginnings of some graphing. It's very crude at the moment, but it will get better. If you want to take a look, click on a swimmer's name in the PB table (the only way to get to a swimmer's page at the moment), then click on an event name in their PB table on the swimmer page.

8/9/2014

Lots of work towards being able to import data from our Hy-Tek database. I've succeeded in getting pretty much all the information I need out of a HY3 meets results file exported from Hy-Tek Team Manager. Now I just need to merge the data into this system's database.
Fixed a massive bug relating to how dates are displayed. It turns out that I was showing all dates off by one month. This turns out to be because JavaScript's Date object has this absolutely ridiculous convention where days are numbered from 1, but months are numbered from 0.
Added a history of swims for an event in the swimmer's page. Go to the PB page and add a swimmer that you're interested in, then click on their name and it will take you to that swimmer's page (you can bookmark this page if you like). Now if you click on an event name in the PB list, you'll get a history of all the races for that event. This is a precursor to graphs, which I'll hopefully start working on soon...

5/9/2014

Moved the source code over to GitHub and connected it with Google Cloud Platform's Push-to-Deploy. The code is hosted here.

31/8/2014

Added a page for each swimmer, showing their PBs including venue and date. Click on a swimmer's name to go to their page.
Added swimmer name (with link) to swim details page.
Started to tidy up some JavaScript, now that I know that some people are starting to take a closer look. Hello Ben. :-)