Thanks for all the positive feedback, Greg brought this up to me and I thought it would be a good addition / resource for our TeAm.
As some of you may know I run the internet hosting for
http://smokeball.gygabyte.com (also known as
http://gygabite.com/smokeball),
so I have the freedom to put things like this online.
Greg sent me some scripts and a logo that I modified for our use, tested, optimized, tested and after about 24 hours of burn in time we decided it was working well enough to use.
There are some further modifications to make, I have to confess that I am passable at html & ColdFusion but have little experience doing CGI.
This was set up for UNIX and I run an NT server, so I had to make some changes there too.
I know that sometimes it takes a long time to run, for comparison you should load the
team page from S@H and see if that also takes a long time.
If their server is running slow and this program is fetching that data then it will compound the latency effect.
Also there is the fact that the page is about 700K in size due to the large number of memebers on our team. Over a slow connection, receiving 3.5K / second this could easily take 200 + seconds just to receive the html. I just loaded the Berkley stats page and it took 80 seconds over my Cable modem.
Baldy18
I agree that splitting up the table would help, that way there would be something to look at while the rest is loading. Right now I am not sure how to do this. If there is someone really adept at CGI / PERL who wants to look at it just PM or email me.
This is a great TeAm to be a part of, I really appreciate you guys. Many of you give a lot of your time / skills & resources to make it better for all of us.
I could name names, but there are so many that I am sure I would leave someone out. You know who you are, so do we.
😉