Re: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built?
Well I'm in the US and I saw a hat that I liked in the http://eshop.athens2004.com/ shop (sorry not CF). 14.40 euros is no big deal so I wanted to buy it. To do that you have to register and I couldn't. It did not have USA listed in the country drop down. Is it me?! because I saw a bunch of other countries there that are not in the EU. It didn't list Canada either. Sorry about being OT, I know that NBC (a television network here in the US) bought all the broadcasting rights to the Olympics but damn why can't my capitalist pig ass buy a darn hat?!heh Ian - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ian Sheridan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.savagevines.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built?
Australia's not there either Ian.I bet it's to do with the different national Olympic Committees.I bet you have to buy all that stuff through the US Olympic Committee's site (or whatever the US committee's name is). When the Sydney Olympics came around they passed special legislation to control the use of all sorts of stuff, including huge lumps of the English language.For example it was against the law to use the word Sydney and 2000 in the same sentence without the express written permission of his Lordship Juan Antonio Samaranch. A client of mine made some components for the torches.A nice order for him, and adds some nice prestige to his small business, but he's not allowed to tell anyone without the express written permission of Jacques Rogge hisself. He can't even use the word Olympic in any of his company's correspondence. So it wouldn't surprise me at all if you can't buy hats through the Athens site, and you have to buy it through the US Olympic committee site. You ought to be able to get a great deal on US Basketball team memorabilia. No one's going to want that.In fact I heard the coach's job is up for grabs. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com _ From: Ian Sheridan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 23 August 2004 11:44 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built? Well I'm in the US and I saw a hat that I liked in the http://eshop.athens2004.com/ shop (sorry not CF). 14.40 euros is no big deal so I wanted to buy it. To do that you have to register and I couldn't. It did not have USA listed in the country drop down. Is it me?! because I saw a bunch of other countries there that are not in the EU. It didn't list Canada either. Sorry about being OT, I know that NBC (a television network here in the US) bought all the broadcasting rights to the Olympics but damn why can't my capitalist pig ass buy a darn hat?!heh Ian [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.athens2004.com - Original Message - From: Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:03:31 +1000 Subject: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built? To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now that the Olympics are under way, I've been looking at the web site at http://www.athens2004.com/ and it's pretty impressive.Does anyone know anything about what sort of beast powers it?Anything about how it's made up? I know they've got huge sums of sponsors' money to spend on it, and all the input for scores comes from laptops at the venues, input by the officials and made available to other officials, media and the web site.The input for details of the athletes etc comes from their home country Olympic Committees through their own local clubs I guess,but for such a huge site, with such huge traffic, there must be a really big donk driving it.The site itself is pretty quiet about how it's built,but does anyone know anything about it?Or know where there's a description of how it's built? I see that they've learned from the fiasco over the Sydney2000 site, where a disabled user sued the Sydney2000 Organising Committeejust before the games started because he couldn't easily access the site using his screen reader, and they had to scramble with only a few weeks to go and recode the site.This site is not perfect in accessible terms, but itsa light-year ahead of the Sydney2000 one. For example, all font sizes on this site are relative so users can use their own preferences to set character size. (Ctrl-wheel for windows users) Anyway it's a matter of curiosity and interest rather than professional need.But I'd love to know more about what's under the hood of this site. Anyone know? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built?
Running Microsoft/IIS 5.0 on LINUX?You sure about that one? :-) From: Qasim Rasheed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.athens2004.com From: Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built?
Looks like PHP... why? Looking source code show meUDMComment... Googling UDMComment gets: http://www.binoculars.com/brands/Collins_binoculars.html That site works with PHP... Maybe Cheers On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:43:45 -0400, Michael T. Tangorre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Microsoft/IIS 5.0 on LINUX?You sure about that one? :-) From: Qasim Rasheed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.athens2004.com From: Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built?
UDMComment is part of UDMSearch, an web site search engine: http://search.mnogo.ru/ _ From: Marco Antonio C. Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 10:43 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built? Looks like PHP... why? Looking source code show meUDMComment... Googling UDMComment gets: http://www.binoculars.com/brands/Collins_binoculars.html That site works with PHP... Maybe Cheers On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:43:45 -0400, Michael T. Tangorre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Microsoft/IIS 5.0 on LINUX?You sure about that one? :-) From: Qasim Rasheed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.athens2004.com From: Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built?
At least some of the site is running on jsp I received the following exception: [Exception in:/secure/tiles/results/discipline_days.jsp] null in the beach volleyball section http://www.athens2004.com/en/resultsBeach_Voleyball/results?oid=4b34d7faef26ef00VgnVCM402b130c0aRCRDdcpnews=1rsc=BV000 On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:58:25 -0400, Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UDMComment is part of UDMSearch, an web site search engine: http://search.mnogo.ru/ _ From: Marco Antonio C. Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 10:43 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built? Looks like PHP... why? Looking source code show meUDMComment... Googling UDMComment gets: http://www.binoculars.com/brands/Collins_binoculars.html That site works with PHP... Maybe Cheers On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:43:45 -0400, Michael T. Tangorre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Microsoft/IIS 5.0 on LINUX?You sure about that one? :-) From: Qasim Rasheed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.athens2004.com From: Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built?
Now that the Olympics are under way, I've been looking at the web site at http://www.athens2004.com/ and it's pretty impressive.Does anyone know anything about what sort of beast powers it?Anything about how it's made up? I know they've got huge sums of sponsors' money to spend on it, and all the input for scores comes from laptops at the venues, input by the officials and made available to other officials, media and the web site.The input for details of the athletes etc comes from their home country Olympic Committees through their own local clubs I guess,but for such a huge site, with such huge traffic, there must be a really big donk driving it.The site itself is pretty quiet about how it's built,but does anyone know anything about it?Or know where there's a description of how it's built? I see that they've learned from the fiasco over the Sydney2000 site, where a disabled user sued the Sydney2000 Organising Committeejust before the games started because he couldn't easily access the site using his screen reader, and they had to scramble with only a few weeks to go and recode the site.This site is not perfect in accessible terms, but itsa light-year ahead of the Sydney2000 one. For example, all font sizes on this site are relative so users can use their own preferences to set character size. (Ctrl-wheel for windows users) Anyway it's a matter of curiosity and interest rather than professional need.But I'd love to know more about what's under the hood of this site. Anyone know? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built?
probably java -- Original Message -- From: Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:03:31 +1000 Now that the Olympics are under way, I've been looking at the web site at http://www.athens2004.com/ and it's pretty impressive.Does anyone know anything about what sort of beast powers it?Anything about how it's made up? I know they've got huge sums of sponsors' money to spend on it, and all the input for scores comes from laptops at the venues, input by the officials and made available to other officials, media and the web site.The input for details of the athletes etc comes from their home country Olympic Committees through their own local clubs I guess,but for such a huge site, with such huge traffic, there must be a really big donk driving it.The site itself is pretty quiet about how it's built,but does anyone know anything about it?Or know where there's a description of how it's built? I see that they've learned from the fiasco over the Sydney2000 site, where a disabled user sued the Sydney2000 Organising Committeejust before the games started because he couldn't easily access the site using his screen reader, and they had to scramble with only a few weeks to go and recode the site.This site is not perfect in accessible terms, but itsa light-year ahead of the Sydney2000 one. For example, all font sizes on this site are relative so users can use their own preferences to set character size. (Ctrl-wheel for windows users) Anyway it's a matter of curiosity and interest rather than professional need.But I'd love to know more about what's under the hood of this site. Anyone know? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
