ELynah Live

cbuckser · October 27, 2008, 03:29:43 PM

Thanks so much for doing this, Age. It was great to have the updates on Friday.

cbuckser · November 07, 2008, 02:38:48 PM

Age, when you attend warmups, would you kindly post on Twitter the projected lines and defense pairings that you observe? Also, if you get your hands on a line sheet, would you post that (so long as it is not before the opponent's coaching staff gets access to that information)?

CowbellGuy · November 07, 2008, 04:19:06 PM

Well, first off I'm sick in bed, but I wasn't planning on going on this trip. Second, Twitters are limited to 140 characters. Not sure how much useful info I could squeeze in.

jtwcornell91 · November 07, 2008, 05:09:09 PM

[quote CowbellGuy]Well, first off I'm sick in bed, but I wasn't planning on going on this trip. Second, Twitters are limited to 140 characters. Not sure how much useful info I could squeeze in.[/quote]

You could do it all by uniform numbers. Or hand your iphone to Anne and have her do it for you. ;-)

Anne 85 · November 07, 2008, 09:15:07 PM

I'd be happy to help, but I'm not there either. And, I'm much less technologically adept than the rest of you. Now, if we could just make my lines book electronic, we'd be all set.

Anne '85

dss28 · November 08, 2008, 12:12:14 PM

Thanks, Age! This was really valuable for me yesterday

I was glued to my crackberry while hurrying from work to find somewhere with ESPNU ::banana::

upperdeck · November 08, 2008, 07:15:33 PM

question

couldnt the server take the ingame chatter from this board and twitterize it as well with just the first 140char of what ever the messages were ?? it could ignore the signatures and quoted stuff? less work for someone than being at the game and info for those trying to use it?

CowbellGuy · November 08, 2008, 07:35:40 PM

If you were getting text updates on your phone from Twitter would you want one for every bit of blather that ends up in these threads or, even worse, the whole board? The point of one person doing it is so there's a reliable, consistent, useful feed.

CowbellGuy · November 08, 2008, 07:39:18 PM

Also, I don't see what purpose that could possibly serve. If you want a digestable export of the posts you could, I dunno, use the RSS feed...

upperdeck · November 08, 2008, 07:48:32 PM

its not an issue for me.. just some have said they were using it.. a game seems to have 1-200 posts.. the twitter mostly has 0-0 scores every few minutes..

I dont use twitter as I am too old and I can just as easily follow this forum on my cell. I was just wondering if someone were actually following the game with it they might like more info.

if you imbedded something in the messages that you wanted to twitter then anyone here could submit a message and only the marked ones would be sent, thereby removing the "blather".. it was just a thought.

CowbellGuy · November 12, 2008, 05:48:07 PM

Been working on this a bit. The updates have generally been separated from Twitter. I can post updates as large as I want and have it show up in the ELynah Live div on this page without affecting the Twitter feed. When I have a normal score/time update, I can choose to send it to Twitter as well. That way, there will be extra information available from here, but the same previous functionality for those receiving Twitter updates while mobile. Tomorrow I'll change the div so it refreshes without needing to reload the page. Now I just need to hope for cell coverage in Hamilton...

CowbellGuy · November 13, 2008, 03:03:55 PM

Didn't have a chance to do the auto-reloading thing yet. You'll just have to do it manually for now.

Rita · October 27, 2010, 06:25:26 PM

Quote from: CowbellGuyNo, Twitter is in no way intended to replace ELF. I'm simply using it as a tool to broadcast updates from the rink to anyone who chooses to follow it and to ELF.

The advantage to using Twitter directly might be to have it send you text updates on your phone if you're going to be away from a computer during a game. Otherwise there's not much point to using it directly.

I figured it would be a very easy way to add some functionality, which it was, but typing out team names, times, etc. repeatedly became tedious very quickly (and led to a certain goal typo as well). So I wrote a little iPhone-optimized web interface to make my life easier, and it certainly did.

The other problem was undue load on Twitter, having it poll them every time a page was loaded on ELF, so I now have my server grab the Twitter feed every minute, and ELF loads the local copy. However, since I'm using my own interface, I'm going to have it just write its own copy of the updates to this server, so there won't be that up-to-1-minute delay for new posts.

The last part of the equation is to have the ELynah Live div on ELF auto-update periodically, perhaps every 30 seconds. Since it's loading a local file, that'll be trivial to implement. It just hasn't happened yet. Should be able to get to it before the next game.

I've searched the archives and I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. ::help:: (please)

Sometime last February someone sent me a weblink to subscribe to the ELF Twitter feed so that Age's tweets get sent to my cell phone. This is FANTASTIC when I'm not at my computer, but not necessary when I am. So I would like to be able to subscribe/unsubcribe as needed. However, I can't find the link (maybe it was sent over ELynah Chat?). Does anyone have it?

TIA. :-)

cbuckser · October 28, 2010, 01:18:24 AM

Quote from: Rita
Quote from: CowbellGuyNo, Twitter is in no way intended to replace ELF. I'm simply using it as a tool to broadcast updates from the rink to anyone who chooses to follow it and to ELF.

The advantage to using Twitter directly might be to have it send you text updates on your phone if you're going to be away from a computer during a game. Otherwise there's not much point to using it directly.

I figured it would be a very easy way to add some functionality, which it was, but typing out team names, times, etc. repeatedly became tedious very quickly (and led to a certain goal typo as well). So I wrote a little iPhone-optimized web interface to make my life easier, and it certainly did.

The other problem was undue load on Twitter, having it poll them every time a page was loaded on ELF, so I now have my server grab the Twitter feed every minute, and ELF loads the local copy. However, since I'm using my own interface, I'm going to have it just write its own copy of the updates to this server, so there won't be that up-to-1-minute delay for new posts.

The last part of the equation is to have the ELynah Live div on ELF auto-update periodically, perhaps every 30 seconds. Since it's loading a local file, that'll be trivial to implement. It just hasn't happened yet. Should be able to get to it before the next game.

I've searched the archives and I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. ::help:: (please)

Sometime last February someone sent me a weblink to subscribe to the ELF Twitter feed so that Age's tweets get sent to my cell phone. This is FANTASTIC when I'm not at my computer, but not necessary when I am. So I would like to be able to subscribe/unsubcribe as needed. However, I can't find the link (maybe it was sent over ELynah Chat?). Does anyone have it?

TIA. :-)

I think the easiest thing to do is go to the eLynah twitter page. From there, you can toggle on and off the telephone icon. (You'll need to log into twitter and follow eLynah on twitter to have this option.)

Rita · October 28, 2010, 10:48:26 AM

Quote from: cbuckser
Quote from: Rita
Quote from: CowbellGuyNo, Twitter is in no way intended to replace ELF. I'm simply using it as a tool to broadcast updates from the rink to anyone who chooses to follow it and to ELF.

The advantage to using Twitter directly might be to have it send you text updates on your phone if you're going to be away from a computer during a game. Otherwise there's not much point to using it directly.

I figured it would be a very easy way to add some functionality, which it was, but typing out team names, times, etc. repeatedly became tedious very quickly (and led to a certain goal typo as well). So I wrote a little iPhone-optimized web interface to make my life easier, and it certainly did.

The other problem was undue load on Twitter, having it poll them every time a page was loaded on ELF, so I now have my server grab the Twitter feed every minute, and ELF loads the local copy. However, since I'm using my own interface, I'm going to have it just write its own copy of the updates to this server, so there won't be that up-to-1-minute delay for new posts.

The last part of the equation is to have the ELynah Live div on ELF auto-update periodically, perhaps every 30 seconds. Since it's loading a local file, that'll be trivial to implement. It just hasn't happened yet. Should be able to get to it before the next game.

I've searched the archives and I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. ::help:: (please)

Sometime last February someone sent me a weblink to subscribe to the ELF Twitter feed so that Age's tweets get sent to my cell phone. This is FANTASTIC when I'm not at my computer, but not necessary when I am. So I would like to be able to subscribe/unsubcribe as needed. However, I can't find the link (maybe it was sent over ELynah Chat?). Does anyone have it?

TIA. :-)

I think the easiest thing to do is go to the eLynah twitter page. From there, you can toggle on and off the telephone icon. (You'll need to log into twitter and follow eLynah on twitter to have this option.)

Thanks, I finally found the telephone icon on the ELF twitter page. I guess what was confusing to me was that I thought I had used a link that by-passed ELF twitter, because the last time I logged into Twitter was to sign up to be an ELF twitter follower (but guess I didnt' tell them where to send the tweets).