New Site Idea
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Forum Name: Ideas / Issues / Problems / Fixes / Updates
Forum Discription: Find something broken, Have an Idea, Find something new!
URL: http://www.professorpaddle.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3026
Printed Date: 28 Apr 2024 at 12:16pm
Topic: New Site Idea
Posted By: James
Subject: New Site Idea
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2005 at 5:59pm
As everyone should know by now, I am willing to build what ever you
want into this site. I am always looking for ways to make it the
coolest site we can have for paddling in washington, of course that
starts with your feedback.
Here is my latest idea for the site.
Ok so I would build a script that allows you to set a phone number or
email address and when a certain river that you pick hits a level that
you pick, you get an email or a text message on your phone telling
you about the current level of that river. This would
take a bit of work, but if you want it I will build it. That of course
means that if no one is interested I will leave it be. Look forward to
hearing feedback about that one.
James
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2005 at 8:43am
I would think the easiest way to do this would be to ask the user for a
phone number and network. You'd have to figure out what networks have
what email address and then create the email address to send messages
to their phone so it would be something like 2065551212@tmobile.net.
Then you could add to the stored proc that gets called to check for
trips that have just ended to have it look for trigger events that
users have setup, this could be a big query. Then if you have sql mail
setup you can send the email from sql or you can send it from the guage
service, but you want to be careful not to slow down the guage updating.
There are probably other ways to accomplish the same thing, but this is
an idea that would work, but could need some tweaking because it might
affect other things.
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Posted By: James
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2005 at 5:54pm
Thanks there Mic,
For others that might read this post, the point of this thread is
really not to find out how to build this or other tools, it is more to
find out if I should invest any of my time into this tool/idea. I have
tons of ideas that I think are cool but the general concensus is that
if people don't use them, they are pointless. And so far not to many
people have given feedback. This leads me to believe that I should put
a hold on building more stuff into the site.
I appreciate the feedback Mic. If you have more technical idea's feel free to send me an email.
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