KCBS Judges - Application Beta Testers Wanted

wow - that sounds awesome!

I wrote something similar last year in C# WinForms app. I used AOL's "free" geocode and directions service (OpenStreetMap) so that I didn't have to show their map to use it. I'm just wondering if you used it too since all of the others that I found required that I show their maps and/or pay a fee. I found it very useful, and thought about making it a free service. The idea was to make it a website where a person could create an account, log search critera (time/distance, state championships, min payout), and get an initial list. Every day the app would check kcbs.us, update the list, and send out eMail announcements if a new comp showed up. One of the ideas was that my service would query the website once per day for all users.

In the end, I just ran out of steam. I had issues with the HTML rendering, turning it into a service like that required a lot of work, kcbs.us used horrible HTML (I would have preferred a web service), they stopped publishing purses and state championships, and then it looked like PickledPig already had a similar app that was in use. I used it a few months later to get KCBS comp results too. I spun in up a few weeks ago to do something with it, and I found that kcbs.us' HTML pattern had changed and was even less standard. The good side was that I changed it the other day to query a different website in a similar fassion. Anyway, I'm not trying to hijack, I think it's great that you've gone this far. I'm not a Java person, but if you ever wanna compare notes, drop me a line.

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Is it PC only or does it work on Mac?

I would be interested. I am a developer and could look at it from that angle.

I haven't tried the app in question, but the OP said it was Java which would lead me to believe that unless it includes calls to JNI, it should run on Mac, and linux too. C# apps can run on them through Mono, but not always as well.

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