Silly Commuter Stats

bigease

Cool Chris. As a fellow coder I know the associated problems. Great job.

salsajake

Looks good, and as always, much appreciated, as I'm sure you will find out soon enough...

I know you've got rid of climb ratio, but could we still have height gain on? IIRC there were 18 people with height gain recorded, which was more than a third of the regular updaters. Those of us who don't live in the south-east have far less chance of racking up monster mileages, so a 'king of the mountains' column is good. A metre gained is as much a measure of how much / what type of cycling you have been doing as a mile ridden.

Also, is the intention with the type of riding to add categories such as "club rides" "mountain biking" "training rides" "racing" etc and be able to view tables by that, or is it just an individual record of each ride you can look back on? I'm just thinking this could become a useful training/recording tool, rather than just a banter generation machine!

CiB

Salsa - thanks for the input. I take your point about adding a climb factor, but the arguments against it when I raised this a few weeks ago were that it's a miles comparison, not many use it, it adds clutter to the table, and once established, the ratio doesn't alter much. Add to that the additional effort in including the add / remove / display of climbs (by year) and it became a pragmatic decision to drop it. Sorry about that.

Ride types - whatever you want. Everyone starts with Commute by default; I've added Commute In, Commute Out, Training, School Trip to mine. You can define a ride however you like (50 characters max) but it remains your definition. I had actually considered adding a Compare By Ride Type later on; it would either rely on users adding a matching ride def, or the awkward but more satisfying use of shared definitions. Not for now tho. I reckon my wife is convinced I've developed an internet pr0n habit, so I'm happy to let it run as it stands for now, bug fixes aside.

mcmullej

Chapeau, Chris!

tailwindhome

CIB

Like many others on here I have no idea if the reworking of the site took 10 minutes or 10 days.*

However long it took, you have our ongoing appreciation and gratitude.

Chapeau!



In my experience with the IT people at our place it cost €1200, took a fortnight and is still in transit from Dublin

GraemeT

Well done and thank you.

May I claim the honour of being the first one to f**k it up :oops:

What would happen, for instance, if some idiot entered his (or her) milage in the ride type box.

Could he (or she) delete or change this erroneous entry, or will it stand forever as a monument to ineptitude?

CiB

GraemeT wrote:

Well done and thank you.

May I claim the honour of being the first one to f**k it up :oops:

What would happen, for instance, if some idiot entered his (or her) milage in the ride type box.

Could he (or she) delete or change this erroneous entry, or will it stand forever as a monument to ineptitude?

That would be an act of monumental stupidity, to be left as a warning to others. Valid point tho - if users can stuff it up, they will.

It'll probably disappear later today through a combination of smoke & mirrors, & a quick delete query that runs when no-one is looking.

Porgy

Damn - back on the bike for 1 hour and I lost a pedal - the thread's sheered off. Can't get to the LBS for new pedals till tomorrow morning. :evil:

The Running Man

Act of genius CiB : many gratefull thanks!!

prawny

Looks like I'm off the bike for the rest of the week. Damn cold is on my chest and going up stairs is hard. And I'd just got back into the top 20

itboffin

Just totting up the stats tally this for this year

apart from my 6600 miles I've clocked 83 wet commuting days and 135 days windy enough to count as gale force, grrrrr!

Hence the Windshire location on my profile, grrrr!

annoyingly that means I had more dry days than wet this year, well it didn't feel like it, grrrr!

:evil:

salsajake

Thats 135 days when you probably had a fairly easy ride in one direction at least! Granted I'd rather have no wind at all than be blown in one way and having to ride like hell the other!

cambs

Grrr... work have blocked the new website.. will try updating from my phone.

itboffin

salsajake wrote:

Thats 135 days when you probably had a fairly easy ride in one direction at least! Granted I'd rather have no wind at all than be blown in one way and having to ride like hell the other!

You'd think so but no, the wind always shift direction on the way home :evil: :evil: :evil:

salsajake

change jobs so you work the other way to where you currently do!

If I have westerlies on the way in, usually still west on the way home - can only think of once when it reversed in the last 3 years, and fortunately that meant tailwind both ways - happy days

R_T_A

Hi CiB,

Love the new look etc. - good work. I can't seem to update though. I'm getting:

Server Error in '/ASPStats' Application.

startIndex cannot be larger than length of string.
Parameter name: startIndex

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. 

Exception Details: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: startIndex cannot be larger than length of string.
Parameter name: startIndex

I've tried it at home as well as work, but get the same problem. Sorry to be a pain, and it could well be a user error here!

roger_merriman

R_T_A wrote:

Hi CiB,

Love the new look etc. - good work. I can't seem to update though. I'm getting:

Server Error in '/ASPStats' Application.

startIndex cannot be larger than length of string.
Parameter name: startIndex

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. 

Exception Details: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: startIndex cannot be larger than length of string.
Parameter name: startIndex

I've tried it at home as well as work, but get the same problem. Sorry to be a pain, and it could well be a user error here!

what browser I'm getting that with safari 4 but is fine with firefox. this is on a mac haven't tried windows yet.

CiB

Hi RTA. I can't do anything during working hours, but will have a look tonight.


To anyone reporting errors, it will help enormously if you can provide enough information for me to able to know what I'm looking for.

As a minimum pls include what you are updating, any values in the various text boxes, which OS (Mac, XP, W7, Linux etc), and browser you're using.

There is a note on the old stats page explaining the new version that does state that the date field populated from the pop-up doesn't fill properly in the Chrome and Safari browsers, and that until I can suss this pls use another browser.

Thanks
CiB

cambs

Hi CiB, don't suppose you can do anything about this but our proxy blocks the new address because ' "Proxy Avoidance" content is forbidden by policy '.
I get a similar kind of error when using my phone for the internet connection "You are not able to access this service because Content control is in place" (from online.vodafone.co.uk )

Haven't tried it at home yet though.

CiB

Cambs

I'd get onto Vodafone and ask them why they see fit to stop you viewing a page full of numbers.

Content Control suggests that keywords / phrases are being blocked. Perhaps we could ask BentMikey, essexian and BollockBreath to request a name change through me to avoid those poor little souls at Vodafone from feeling the need to stop us corrupting the nation's morals. Although if it is these keywords / phrases being blocked you'll never see this message.

MonkeyMonster

itboffin wrote:

salsajake wrote:

Thats 135 days when you probably had a fairly easy ride in one direction at least! Granted I'd rather have no wind at all than be blown in one way and having to ride like hell the other!

You'd think so but no, the wind always shift direction on the way home :evil: :evil: :evil:

The PF had a word given you'd managed to dodge her for so long...

R_T_A

Didn't think about the browser - I'm using Chrome on XP, but I'm trying to add figures only.

They've blocked the site from work , so I'll use IE when I get back home.

will3

R_T_A wrote:

They've blocked the site from work , so I'll use IE when I get back home.

Yeah can't help thinking that the picture at the top is all very nice, but it might be better to make it look like a spreadsheet :oops: :roll:

CiB

will3 wrote:

R_T_A wrote:

They've blocked the site from work , so I'll use IE when I get back home.

Yeah can't help thinking that the picture at the top is all very nice, but it might be better to make it look like a spreadsheet :oops: :roll:

Good point well made. As the content is pretty much what it was in the old version, maybe the picture is the issue - it's got a lot of skin tone etc. I'll take it out over the w/e to see if that improves matters.

CiB

Ok - that's the Chrome / Safari browser thing sorted. It should be ok now R_T_A.

i've taken the banner image out too. if you find that you can (or can't) access it with it removed let me know.

Aidy

ChrisInBicester wrote:

Ok - that's the Chrome / Safari browser thing sorted. It should be ok now R_T_A.

i've taken the banner image out too. if you find that you can (or can't) access it with it removed let me know.

Any chance of making the side bar a top bar?

The page is now wider than I normally have browser windows, you see...

[Edit] Also, can the YTD column be click-to-sortable?[/Edit]

itboffin

Now then I need to do 362 miles this month to drag my sorry arsed YTD mileage to 7000, might not sound like a lot but come on, it's Dec. how many parties etc.

I see a couple of you will be hitting 8000 Chapeau chaps, outstanding work.

cjcp

itboffin wrote:

Now then I need to do 362 miles this month to drag my sorry arsed YTD mileage to 7000, might not sound like a lot but come on, it's Dec. how many parties etc.

I see a couple of you will be hitting 8000 Chapeau chaps, outstanding work.

It's very touch and go whether I make 8,000 miles - rough calculations suggest that I'll have to persuade Mrs CJ to let me go on at least three 1.5/two-hour rides over the Christmas period.

itboffin

cjcp wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Now then I need to do 362 miles this month to drag my sorry arsed YTD mileage to 7000, might not sound like a lot but come on, it's Dec. how many parties etc.

I see a couple of you will be hitting 8000 Chapeau chaps, outstanding work.

It's very touch and go whether I make 8,000 miles - rough calculations suggest that I'll have to persuade Mrs CJ to let me go on at least three 1.5/two-hour rides over the Christmas period.

Option 1) I'm just popping out to the shops :roll:
Option 2) I'll meet you there
Option 3) MTFU and ride faster :twisted:
Option 4) Admit defeat and hand in your cards at the door :P

cjcp

Presently bunged up with a cold, so there'll be no riding at all at this rate. Grrr.