Deego Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Its the last few days to get your entry in for the December 05 CoTM table, which will be the last one I do Due to increasing work loads, both at work and other projects I am involved in, I have decided that I will not be running a Cacher of the month table for 2006. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people that have entered over the past 2 years, without you there would have been no table. I will still be updating the Hall of Fame and the UK records page . I will also be doing a 2005 table over the next few weeks (after the December table is published). I have thought long and hard about this but it’s the only thing that I can do to ensure I can still get a few caches done here and there. If anybody wishes to take it over, then please let me know. I can add a link to your pages and can tell everyone via email that it will live on. Thanks again to everyone who entered. Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Was it something that I said? I never did CoTM, but I know many that do (did maybe now) and they will be sad to see it go. I'm sure someone will hold out a hand and take this on. Moote Quote Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Firstly let me thank Deego for doing this for the past couple of years. Though never being a contender we always enjoyed seeing where we finished each month. Secondly I fully understand your reasons Brian - been there...etc., Thirdly for a change I can agree with Moote I am sure someone will be along to take on the task for us... Any takers? Quote Link to comment
+The Klever Boys Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 That's sad news Deego, but I'm sure everyone understands. Many thanks for all your efforts, and for running it for this long! Russ Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 although a relative newbie to caching, I too would like to say an enormous thank you to Brian for his sterling work. It will indeed be an enormous disappointment not to be able to check to see whether we are even in the top half of cachers each month, but we must give brian the chance to find SOME caches! Seriously, thanks for the hard work, maybe in the future we can come up with some automated way of doing it! Dave Quote Link to comment
StuartP Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Investigations into an replacement are under way. Hopefully with a web front end, to reduce the human effort required. More news when we've got some progress Cheers Stuart Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Investigations into an replacement are under way. Hopefully with a web front end, to reduce the human effort required. More news when we've got some progress Cheers Stuart Oh before anyone jumps in saying Sock Puppet. StuartP, is looking at this with myself and maybe a couple of others if there are any takers Moote Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Sinks to knees in slomo, camera smoothly pans up, looking down on my up-turned face: "Nooooooo!!!" Ah well, every party has to come to an end, and at least this one hasn't involved a fist-fight or vomit - as far as I know. Thank you very much for running it for the last couple of years Brian, I've always enjoyed taking part. Should you feel you'd like someone who's been a keen supporter of it in the past to take over, I am available. I understand how work can get in the way of caching (I've another article to finish before the weekend, I've just discovered. Who'd have thought there was a real word for a sexual attraction to sausages?) and support your brave decision to pack it in and spoil other peoples fun Cheers again! SP Quote Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 (edited) Camera pans quickly across a lush green field, shot widens and widens to a fast approaching hill, reaches hill summit to reveal a running SP, arms in the air, we hear his sweet baritone voice bellow "The hills are alive with the sound of CoTM". The GeoChat nuttas are working hard at filling Deego's shoes seamlessly*ahem*. Watch this space. P.S. StuartP was the founder of GeoChat so he is an official nutta Edited January 11, 2006 by The Hokesters Quote Link to comment
+G Force Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Now that you have the time and are available to go out cahing I'm sure you would be a contender for the Cacher of the Month if there was one. Many thanks for all the work over the last couple years as you did well to give a few of us further enjoyment from the sport. Quote Link to comment
+adambro Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Sounds like it needs the PHP/MySQL treatment. Is this the kind of thing Moote/StuartP are doing? adam Quote Link to comment
+browni Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Brian, Sorry to see you are not doing COTM any more but perfectly undersatnd. Don't forget the offer of caching one day with Dawn and myself some time soon. I am sure COTM will carry on and you can get up there in the top numbers. Quote Link to comment
Nediam Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Big thankyou to Deego for all the hard work he's put in over the last couple of years . Sorry to hear you've had to pack it in but I'm sure everyone understands. Suppose you're gonna have a go at breaking all the records now you've got some spare time? Good to hear there are some generous people looking into keeping it going Thanks again Brian Quote Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 SNIP Who'd have thought there was a real word for a sexual attraction to sausages?) SNIP You can't say that and then not tell us what the word is. Quote Link to comment
+adambro Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Right okay, here is my very much work in progress solution that uses PHP/MySQL. http://www.aebrookes.co.uk/cotm/index.php Feedback and comments much appreciated. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Who'd have thought there was a real word for a sexual attraction to sausages?) You can't say that and then not tell us what the word is. Botulinonia. Look it up. On a specialist page somewhere! Quote Link to comment
+Messe Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Sad Day has come...We all know just how hard you have worked in the last 2 years to keep it going...we all thank you very much. If any one deserves a break its you B....ooooohh just when I was getting Good at not getting the wooden spoon each month .... Quote Link to comment
+Stuey Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Feedback and comments much appreciated. Ace! If you can get us to submit scores using a web form and it goes into a database which produces league tables each calendar month...... good on ya! Quote Link to comment
+Stuey Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Its the last few days to get your entry in for the December 05 CoTM table, which will be the last one I do Cheers Brian, it has been very good of you, and I have appreciated the effort that you have put in! Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Thanks Brian for all you have done with COTM - never was far up the list but it was fun to look and see who had done what. Quote Link to comment
+Bill D (wwh) Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Thank you, Brian, for all the effort you've put into CoTM over the last few years! I'm not into numbers myself (time would be a fine thing!), but I've entered regularly because I thought it was a great idea and worth supporting. Ironically I shan't be able to enter your final CoTM, as I didn't manage a single cache find in December. Hopefully the plans to keep CoTM going will bear fruit. Quote Link to comment
Nediam Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Right okay, here is my very much work in progress solution that uses PHP/MySQL. http://www.aebrookes.co.uk/cotm/index.php Feedback and comments much appreciated. Latin Bad! Rest good Seriously though, it does look very good especially considering the amount of time you've had. I'm more than happy with it, let's see what everyone else thinks. (graphics look impressive and proffesional to boot). I wish I knew more about webstuff so I could volunteer, unfortunately I don't, so all I can offer is my time to sift through e-mails etc (if thats any help?). Quote Link to comment
+bargee Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Very sorry to hear but all i acn say is big respest to brian for running it up to now. Thanks Deego. Lots and Lots of caches out there for you to go and find, get back to your roots Quote Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Right okay, here is my very much work in progress solution that uses PHP/MySQL. http://www.aebrookes.co.uk/cotm/index.php Feedback and comments much appreciated. Looks great, well done on the work so far Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted January 12, 2006 Author Share Posted January 12, 2006 (edited) Thanks for all the nice comments I am learning php, but it is hard to find the time needed, its a vicious circle Edited January 12, 2006 by Deego Quote Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Right okay, here is my very much work in progress solution that uses PHP/MySQL. http://www.aebrookes.co.uk/cotm/index.php Feedback and comments much appreciated. Oh nice going so far Adam. Did you contact Moote and StuartP to see how far they had got with it? Quote Link to comment
NickPick Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Thanks for all your very hard work over the years Brian. It's good to see that someone else is taking it on. Perhaps one day in the future, I'll rise above the bottom slot. Quote Link to comment
+adambro Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Oh nice going so far Adam. Did you contact Moote and StuartP to see how far they had got with it? Yes we are in communication. Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted January 12, 2006 Author Share Posted January 12, 2006 It would be nice to see it continue and I will still be entering , maybe with more than the three caches that I found in December Quote Link to comment
+*bingoboy* Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 thanks for all your time and work Deego if we ever meet there will be a beer provided Quote Link to comment
+The Cache Hoppers Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Thanks Brian for all your hard work. I shall miss my reminder emails from you each month, even though I didn't need one for December. Happy caching Quote Link to comment
+steviep Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 A big thank you from me for your hard work on COTM I will miss e-mailing you each month, hope to bump into you one day and buy you a beer mate! Cheers! Quote Link to comment
+mongoose39uk Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Well son! What can I say. Sorry you wont be doing it anymore, Thanks for all the hard work. Now you will have time to come caching I hope! Cheers Pop Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Many thanks for all the hard work. Have sent my last stats in just to secure bottom spot for December. I know how much work all this is having done the dustoff scores during the last year and that list isnt half as good as yours. As someone who has actually met brian i can confirm he does carry a spare trigpoint with him as well as patching compound and a trowel and allthough he may win trigger of the month cacher of the month may be beyond him Quote Link to comment
+dogastus Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 I'd just like to add my thanks, Brian. Also thanks for the reminder emails which I did need occasionally! I can really imagine how much work was involved every month in sorting through all that data. Quote Link to comment
+The White Family Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 We'd also like to add our thanks to Brian for all the time and effort he has put into Cacher of the Month. Quote Link to comment
+Yorkypudding Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Hi, I agree with many here, thank you for such a great service and all voluntary great respect to you Brian. Yorkypudding xx Quote Link to comment
+adambro Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I'm continuing to make progress with my CoTM system, http://www.aebrookes.co.uk/cotm/index.php. I've now got all the previous entries into my database so you can view previous months results. Took me a few hours with some playing around with Microsoft Excel and some PHP scripts. This is the key step towards making CoTM easier to look after. (Note to Deego: Is it okay for me to copy your data like I have?) You can view individual profiles of users to see how many times they've taken part, totals etc. The next thing I'll be doing is making it so users can login and add their results into the database. Regards, Adam Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 (edited) Looks good to me. Taking the data is also ok with me If you drop me an email (deegoguk at aol.com) I can send the entrys for december (table closes on the 15th) as an xls file and will link from my site to yours ???? How about a year table ? see 2004 year table I was planning the same for 2005 Looks like I can go caching next weekend :D Edited January 13, 2006 by Deego Quote Link to comment
+Nellies Knackers Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 May be a silly question but could this take info direct from gc.com or gcuk of uk cachers and remove the need for any other work at all,or would that be too easy? As gcuk have permission to read Groundspeak's database maybe an arrangement could be made... Quote Link to comment
+adambro Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 (edited) Doesn't seem like a silly question. Integrating into GCUK would seem like a sensible option, but since Deego is involved with GCUK I would have thought this would have been considered before. Maybe their agreement with Groundspeak is quite restrictive. Deego you can email be at adam.brookes at gmail.com. Are you going to continue to look after the UK records list and the hall of fame? Regards, Adam Ps. Did you get my email Moote? Edited January 13, 2006 by adambro Quote Link to comment
+adambro Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 How about a year table ? see 2004 year table I was planning the same for 2005 Done, see http://www.aebrookes.co.uk/cotm/year.php?year=2004. Also, if you look at http://www.aebrookes.co.uk/cotm/year.php?year=2005 you'll see the stats for 2005, just missing the results for December. Now i'm going to add a link to expand each of the tables to see all results not just the top ten. Quote Link to comment
+The Klever Boys Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 May be a silly question but could this take info direct from gc.com or gcuk of uk cachers and remove the need for any other work at all,or would that be too easy?As gcuk have permission to read Groundspeak's database maybe an arrangement could be made... Yes, good suggestion because the number of caches found isn't truly the number of caches you have found, it appears to be the total number you have submitted whilst entering the COTM competition. It's quite impressive though - good work Adambro! Quote Link to comment
+2202 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Firstly, congrats and coms to Deego for the work put in. Secondly the linking with GC.com could prove interesting as it may show a 'who's hot, and who's sadly lagging behind', if it is done on a yearly basis with the ability to have a form table extraction month by month. Worth exploring to bring it up to another league so to speak, and not just repeat what has gone before (however good). Quote Link to comment
+adambro Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Yup good points 2202. I've got it creating stats for year dynamically so you'll be able to keep an eye on who is where in the table before the year end. Quote Link to comment
+Pengy&Tigger Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 May be a silly question but could this take info direct from gc.com or gcuk of uk cachers and remove the need for any other work at all,or would that be too easy?As gcuk have permission to read Groundspeak's database maybe an arrangement could be made... There are member's only caches and non-Uk caches, which contribute towards COTM but are not on GCUK. There's also the travel bug points, which are not in GCUK either. T Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 As Tigger says not all caches are/were counted on G:UK locationless/members only/ caches out of the UK. plus I wanted it to be enter when you want to enter, so email seemed the best way at the time. Using php makes it more dynamic than Html (do you give lessons ) Yes I will still be doing the UK records and Hall of fame. Quote Link to comment
+adambro Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Yes I will still be doing the UK records and Hall of fame. OK, sorry I just missed it from your original post. Quote Link to comment
+adambro Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Could the person who contacted me through my website please get in touch again with some contact details so I can discuss their concerns. Thanks. Adam Quote Link to comment
+Pengy&Tigger Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 I have a suggestion, but feel free to say if I'm out of order. The reason Deego can't do it anymore is because of the time it takes up to manually put it all together. Adambro has put something automated together with a dtabase and scripts. Perhaps if Adambro could assist/provide the code and database to Deego, the COTM could still live on, in the same place as the HOF and records page? Just a thought. T Quote Link to comment
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