Google AppEngine app for Winsford Swimming Club.

Oli Wright (oli.wright.github@gmail.com) The app is hosted at http://winsford-asc.appspot.com/

This is a small project I'm working on as a way to teach myself about lots of web technologies that have largely passed me by over the last 20 years or so.

My children are active in the local swimming club so I thought it would be good to write something to support that.

This app runs on Google AppEngine, and scrapes its data mainly from https://www.swimmingresults.org which is the website of British Swimming and the ASA (Amateur Swimming Association).

The idea is to build a local database of all races for all swimmers within the Winsford swimming club, and present it in a way useful for swimmers, parents, club officials and coaches.

And I learn all about Python, JavaScript, CSS and HTTP while I'm at it.

This is my first go at Python, JavaScript and CSS. As with all 'first goes', it can be a bit messy. I came across the Google style guides when I was well into the project...

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascriptguide.xml

...so I'm trying to adopt a lot of their conventions. But you'll find plenty that isn't yet quite there.

My religious beliefs prevent me from putting curly braces in the wrong place however. So apologies to JavaScript programmers who like to do that.

If you're interested in adapting this for another swimming club, you'll probably be dismayed by the number of occurrances of "Winsford" throughout the code. That's because I'm just writing it for myself at the moment. Feel free to make improvements.

Oli