f! Blog archive for December 2009

I'm happy to announce a new partnership between HappyTC and FFindr. HappyTC is a Canada-based website with a simple goal: Make organising Ultimate teams (practices, games and of course parties) easier and hassle free — so that there’s more time to actually get out and play, and not sit in front of a computer. Patrick Winter, the brain behind this neat service, also posted an announcement on his blog. With the availability of custom tournament list...

Hey, it is already December. November was an animated month for FFindr: 6 blog posts, a new logo, Twitter integration into event/team pages, WJUC 2010 partnership, IFDA Interview, ... 18,259 Visits and 50,257 Pageviews for November from 127 different countries are only little behind the records set in October (about -3%, while considering that November has a day less), with once again more than 50k delivered pages. By the way, the majority of FFindr users browses the...

Currently I am spending more time than ever on FFindr, one late night session chases another. The complete database is about to get restructured, causing changes in almost every source file (and they are numerous, very numerous). It all started with the integration of leagues, that is events with several dates. This lead to new data tables that are differently joined and queried and thus trigger a domino of necessary adjustments. The bitter pill about this...

This summer a free Frisbee tournament registration manager launched. The tool has been conceived to simplify the time-consuming task of handling a registration life-cycle, taking care of collecting bids (i.e. a team or person that wants to play) selecting and announcing teams (sending confirmation e-mails around) managing a waiting list (showing the state of things). Since its launch more than 25 tournaments tested and used this online registration powered by FFindr. Last week, Matthias who organises 12. Nacht der...

2009 is drawing to a close, year-end retrospectives are popping up. Time to look back at the Ultimate year, just like last year's post: The Ultimate-Frisbee Champions 2008. In the following the result of my research for national champions from all over the world (to be precise: Grass Ultimate Frisbee for Open, Women and Mixed... names marked with ² signify beach champions, in case that no Grass Championships took place). Open Australia: Chilly (Victoria) Austria: Flugsaurier (Wels) Belarus: Underdog...