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Head over to the AFL Widget page to get the latest version.
Version 1.5.1 introduces the option of selecting between 3 different sources for ladder data:
This is due to the fact that the AFL keeps changing their website faster than I can fix the widget!
Sportal.com.au is the default for now because the AFL site isn’t showing any ladder data as of 26/03/07, but it might come back on line one day.
Having 2 or 3 different sources for the ladder data makes it less likely that the widget will break if one of the sites decides to change format because it is unlikely that all the sites will change at the same time.
So let me know if there are any problems with the new widget, once again, it may need tweaking once the season starts later this week!
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EDIT: I have a new version in the works, it allows you to select between 3 different sources for the widget to use for fetching the ladder data. I’m hedging my bets on the fact that it is hightly unlikely that all 3 sources change their website layouts at the same time! It’s going through the final stages of testing and should be out in time for the first round.
No sooner do I release a new “fixed” version of the widget for season 2007 then the bloody AFL go and change things on me again!
The AFL Ladder Widget v1.5.0 has been updated for 2007 to use a new ladder data link from the AFL Website. This link was active during development of the widget. However soon after releasing it, the link has stopped producing valid data, resulting in the “Error with Data” message reported by the widget.
The page reference I found the ladder on has even stopped displaying the ladder but hasn’t disappeared entirely, which leads me to hope that the ladder will start working at the address once the season starts.
I am aware of this problem and monitoring the situation, but the widget might not be ready in time for the start of the season, it might depend on when the AFL brings their own ladder on line or me giving up on the AFL site and using a different source for the data.
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Ok, so I think I’ve got a new version of the AFL Ladder ready for action in 2007, shoot on over to the AFL Ladder Widget page to get it. The new widget has an option to show more team information in the tool tips that appear if you hover over each team name.
I say “I think” because since the major rework of the AFL website for this season (it now uses AJAX and XML files all over the place) there is a potential problem if the AFL doesn’t actively update the XML data file the widget now downloads and uses to generate the ladder. The AFL hasn’t brought the season 2007 ladder page on line yet so there’s no way to tell 100% if the widget will work properly until the season starts and they update their own ladder.
But I have been monitoring the contents of the XML file over the last couple of weeks and it has been changing to show the results of the pre-season games so that gives me some confidence that the XML source file is at least somewhat ok. There are still some quirks with the data in the file (all in the recent results and past results data) which will become clear if you use the new option to display the extra information, but I am hoping that will improve as the season proper begins.
So here’s hoping the thing works ok, otherwise I might have to tweak it again after the season starts…
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Ok, so I shouldn’t have tempted fate with the comment about the AFL Widget not needing updating before the next season!
The AFL have updated their site in the last day or so and now the widget has broken… I can’t even find the ladder on their site any more, and to top things off the new and “improved” site doesn’t work in Safari either!
I think it is time to look for a new place to download the ladder data from… stay tuned for an update, hopefully in time for the new season.
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So after a long almost 2 months or so of being down, the site is back up again!
We’ve relocated from the USA to Australia and we’ve just got DSL connected tonight and the server back up and running. So check back soon for pictures of our US cross country drive and our new place in Australia.
Stay tuned!
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Here’s a link to some of Rebecca’s artwork, some of it she created in the last few months while out at Portland.
I know some people have been keen to see her work so follow this link to the images which are currently hosted on the Maryland State Arts Council site, and search for “Whittemore”.
She’s said she’s going to work on a new website of her own, so keep an eye out for that appearing in the next few months!
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To paraphrase the poetic genius of Bon Scott, we’re on our way to the Promised Land! That’s right, my contract in the US has ended and I’m returning to Australia, not alone as I ventured here, but Rebecca is coming with me! We’ll be back in late August, returning to Adelaide.
So that means that this site will be down from some time early in August, probably around the 9th, while everthing gets packed up and moved, but the plan is for the site to resurface on the other side of the planet in a month or two. In the mean time I’ve set up a redirection page at letaage.wordpress.com to hold this space and to provide a link to an alternative download site for the AFL Ladder Widget.
I’ll still be contactable via email at tom.armitage at tenix.com during this time and should surface in Australia with my old mobile phone number (for those of you who still have it!), I’m looking forward to having a Coopers and a countery at the Prince and watching some footy!
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Well, something in the latest Apple software update to version 10.4.7 seems to have broken the AFL Ladder Widget 1.4.2 and prior. The problem worked out to be how the Dashboard Javascript engine interpreted a non-breaking whitespace character when compared to a normal space character. Previously they matched, now they don’t, and this was causing problems with teams with spaces in their names (Sydney Swans, Brisbane Lions etc) not rendering correctly and causing the highlight function to stop working and the ladder to spill off the edge of the widget.
So to cut to the chase, there’s a new version of the ladder available here or from the AFL Ladder Widget page on this site.
Let me know if there are any problems with this new version.
I have had requests for additional information on the widget, like percentages. I have been working on an update to do this, the current widget already collects the percentages as it read all the rest of the table data, but I am not happy with how large the widget gets with percentages added in an extra column. So until I can come up with a better way of displaying and managing all the information, I’m going to leave it the way it is.
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