Chino -- Scorecast

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Case of The Wired Golfers!
A Very Thin Client.
Live Event Netcasting.
Customizable Emulators

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Project:
A client is building a embedded scoring system for golfers. Among it's many features, this system will keep track of scores, give running tallies of side games, and send or receive personal messages for the golfers on the course.

Golfers enter their scores for each hole from battery-powered scoring kiosks or hand-held devices. Because of the "wireless" network, bandwidth is at a premium and network traffic must be kept to a minimum. But the system must remain responsive to the user and all data must be constantly updated to reflect individual/tournament scores and changing course conditions.
Solution:
ASP, COM, DCOM, MSIE4, CDF, CSS, DHTML, Jscript, Scriptlets, and Macromedia Flash.

Working with a team of highly skilled information designers and the client's fine IT staff, we used the latest technologies of 1997 to build this embedded intranet based application.

Because of the power and network restrictions I used DHTML and Javascript to build a single page client-side application that never unloaded from RAM. This single page contained all the data required to present the user with 26 possible "screens".

All graphical elements were preloaded, and the page itself was never redirected or refreshed. The last was so that the battery powered devices need not have to access it's hard drive, which had gone to power-saving mode 5 minutes after the unit boot-up. Data updates and submissions were executed with "agents" created with MSIE's Scriptlets technology. This saved network bandwidth, since only the data that needed to be updated was transfered. There was no HTML data tranmitted with each transaction.

The highly designed graphical interface was made with Macromedia Flash. The application of vector graphics to the web affords us the use of high design without scarificing filesize or ram/cpu/network bandwidth. For instance a 640x480x24bit GUI in Flash, with no animation was between 11KB - 18KB (depending on gradients). Compared to a bitmap of the same image that would be around 100KB - 200KB! In this project we used 'still' Flash graphics overlayed with CSS defined live text. The resulting dynamic GUI is stunning and I highly recommend it!

Project: A client is building a embedded scoring system for golfers. Among it's many features, this system will keep track of scores, give running tallies of side games, and send or receive personal messages for the golfers on the course.
Golfers enter their scores for each hole from battery-powered scoring kiosks or hand-held devices. Because of the "wireless" network, bandwidth is at a premium and network traffic must be kept to a minimum. But the system must remain responsive to the user and all data must be constantly updated to reflect individual/tournament scores and changing course conditions. Solution: ASP, COM, DCOM, MSIE4, CDF, CSS, DHTML, Jscript, Scriptlets, and Macromedia Flash. Working with a team of highly skilled information designers and the client's fine IT staff, we used the latest technologies of 1997 to build this embedded intranet based application. Because of the power and network restrictions I used DHTML and Javascript to build a single page client-side application that never unloaded from RAM. This single page contained all the data required to present the user with 26 possible "screens". All graphical elements were preloaded, and the page itself was never redirected or refreshed. The last was so that the battery powered devices need not have to access it's hard drive, which had gone to power-saving mode 5 minutes after the unit boot-up. Data updates and submissions were executed with "agents" created with MSIE's Scriptlets technology. This saved network bandwidth, since only the data that needed to be updated was transfered. There was no HTML data tranmitted with each transaction. The highly designed graphical interface was made with Macromedia Flash. The application of vector graphics to the web affords us the use of high design without scarificing filesize or ram/cpu/network bandwidth. For instance a 640x480x24bit GUI in Flash, with no animation was between 11KB - 18KB (depending on gradients). Compared to a bitmap of the same image that would be around 100KB - 200KB! In this project we used 'still' Flash graphics overlayed with CSS defined live text. The resulting dynamic GUI is stunning and I highly recommend it!