MPG monthly competition

[ungawd]

I love tablets which is why I have two of them. The convenience of them can't be matched by even the smallest netbooks. My dislike is the on-screen keyboard. SwiftKey Tablet-X is the best IME I've found yet it's still not a physical keyboard. Trying to get the cursor lined up to insert or remove a letter or letters is the biggest pain. Selection, copy, and paste is absolutely terrible on both tablets. To combat the keyboard I bought a Logitech Bluetooth Keyboard for Android and love it. Then I can't alleviate the issue with the cursor. Mice just don't function properly with Android and that drives me crazy. Anyway, for websurfing, reading, and media tablets are outstanding when the d@m^ browser doesn't crash.

 

[GeneralZod]

Try to open Safari on FB or here. The cursor issue can drive a person mad. Even with those issues, they are amazing.

 

[ungawd]

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Notes:
1. This is being served from a tablet and may be slow.
2. (FIXED) Do not use commas in any text field as it doesn't yet have sanity checks and will screw with data retrieval.
3. Enter whatever and however much you want (fictional data) as the current db will be wiped.
4. This is far from complete; I will at some point post a roadmap.

 

[stimpy2301]

Looks great so far. A few questions/comments:
1) Thanks for having a way to save your car's info ... I noticed immediately I'd be annoyed by having to enter it every time.
2) What happens if we make a mistake? (Like I just did entering one?) Do we have the ability to go back and edit?
3) When will the db be wiped? Once you've completed it?

 

[ungawd]

Looks great so far. A few questions/comments:
1) Thanks for having a way to save your car's info ... I noticed immediately I'd be annoyed by having to enter it every time.
2) What happens if we make a mistake? (Like I just did entering one?) Do we have the ability to go back and edit?
3) When will the db be wiped? Once you've completed it?

1. indeed. I found it quite annoying and immediately added it to my todo list.
2. *I'll be adding a way to edit fillups, it will disqualify that fillup from the monthly competition if it was not submitted in the current month. I will also perform a submit and recall as it occurs on the cardata modification form. This will allow users to once-over their input data with the option to edit before moving on.
- * this will most likely be implemented during the writing of the admin interface
3. I'll keep the data that's been entered until full live deployment, June 1 sounds good. The database structure is sound so I don't see myself rebuilding it for any reason. Data integrity can be maintained after adding additional columns to the tables so subtle changes could be made.

 

[ungawd]

I do encourage the creation of multiple accounts and lots of entries with variations. It is testing afterall. I will paginate the fillup listing results, 50 per sounds good, the next time I work on it.

 

[ctenc001]

I know i'm a little late to thisand am reviving a month old topic, but is this still going on? Has it been moved to another thread? I'd like to get in on it!

 

[muniorbust]

I just got here too.
Looks like you can click the link in ungawd's signature:
MPG/Dragstrip Web Application (Beta)

Cool to see the enthusiam, but I don't think I'll to join in, but I plan to use Fuelly.