06-04-2003, 08:34 AM
|  | Wooden Poster | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Pittsburgh, PA: Orlando, FL Age: 27
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| | | How many would be interested in this?
Hi Everyone. I'm developing software for personal use that keeps track of the stats of all the coasters I have been on. Eventually I would like to have it include all the coasters in the USA so that I can simply check a check box to indicate that I have been on it. I'm going to program it so it can tell me the stats for each coaster I have been on, tell me which is the tallest/fastest/longest, also what park it's in and other stuff. I'm currently developing it now with very little actually activated. Is there anyone else who would like to see the final product? I guess you can say I'm looking for beta testers or just some feedback as to what to do with it. If you interested, let me know.
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06-04-2003, 10:03 AM
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| | | That sounds really cool; I'd be interested in testing, or just viewing the final product. Good luck!
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06-04-2003, 10:55 AM
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| | | Same here, it sounds like something pretty cool and I'd love to try it. Do you have any idea of when it'll be done, or close to done?
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06-04-2003, 10:55 AM
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| | | I'll let you know when I make a little more progress on it. RIght now I'm still getting the screens to look good.
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06-04-2003, 01:40 PM
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| | | Sounds very cool DOB. I'm definitly interested.
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06-04-2003, 02:39 PM
|  | Bite my shiny metal ***! | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Ca$hville, Nashvega$ Age: 29
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| | | I have a coaster count program as well on my Palm. It requires the Database program HanDBase, which for its small price (I think 20 bucks or something), it's very much worth it. Mine not only lists the coasters I've ridden, but I also have the number of times I've ridden it (along with some rudimentry stats about it, like type, builder, height, speed, etc.) |
06-04-2003, 03:23 PM
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| | Sounds awesome Daugeter Of Beast. I'd be very interested in it, as long as you don't charge me. 
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06-04-2003, 03:34 PM
| | Wooden Poster | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Pittsburgh, PA: Orlando, FL Age: 27
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| | | How could I possibly charge fellow coaster enthusists? That would be a true crime. Anyway. As of today (thankfully work was slow), it's about 60% done. Once it's ready for testing/feeback, I'll let everyone know.
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06-04-2003, 03:59 PM
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| | | It sounds cool and could I be one of the first people to test it? |
06-04-2003, 04:07 PM
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| | | Sure. Why not?
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06-04-2003, 04:18 PM
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| | | WOw. Cool Stuff! Feel free to use our database on tn. |
06-04-2003, 04:53 PM
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| | | It would be cool if you could have it say something like, "you have ridden 45,738 feet of steel track, 33,121 feet of wooden track 78,859 total feet of track, 16 vertical loops..." and so on. Like if it added the stats of the coasters. Just a thought.
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06-04-2003, 09:07 PM
| | Wooden Poster | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Pittsburgh, PA: Orlando, FL Age: 27
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| | | Thanks for the ok on the database. That will help make a few things easier.
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06-04-2003, 09:22 PM
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| | | Ok guys. Here's our first hurdle. Say you want to enter that you rode a certain coaster. What do you think would be the best way to view what coasters are for a certain park? There are two ways this could be done...which one do you think will work better? 1). You can just type in the name of the coaster, and select the park from a drop down list of all the parks. Or, 2). Select the park from a drop down list, then have another drop down list filter the coasters that are only at that park. Then you can pick the coaster you were on from the sorted list. Does that make sense? Anyway, let me know which is better and I'll initialize it tomorrow.
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06-04-2003, 10:13 PM
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| | | Drop down park list, then drop down coaster list. It will make it easier to select a park, and then be able to check ever coaster from that park without having to search for each and every one.
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