Fred's blog

While working on gptg I wanted to be able to phone to the club by clicking on the tel link. To be able to do this I had to do the following in firefox:

• open the about:config page
• add the Boolean property network.protocol-handler.external.tel with a value of true
• add the String property network.protocol-handler.app.tel with a value of /usr/local/bin/phone-call

And phone-call is a simple shell script that is calling twinkle my SIP client:

#!/bin/sh

exec twinkle --immediate --call "`echo $1 | sed s/tel://`"

# phone-call ends here

My goal is to have at least 10 members in each country around the world to spread the use of the site.

But I have a chicken and egg issue to solve with http://www.gptg.org/: to have more members I need more golfs and to have more golfs I need more members...

If you have any idea to spread the use of http://www.gptg.org/, contact me.

Here are the benefits for registered users:

• home page.
• a map with the golfs where you have played.
• invite other members to play.
• store your golf scores.
• add or modify golf clubs and courses.
• send messages to other members.
• publish your reviews.

These come in addition to the non-registered services:

• search engine.
• info on golf clubs and courses.
• maps.
• weather forecast.

I'm currently working on a social network site for golfers. If you want to beta test, just create an account on http://greatplacestogolf.org/ and play arround. Comments welcome!!!

Here are the features:

• See maps for your courses. You will see a map of all the places you have played on.
• Fiind partners on each course around the world.
• Reviews of courses.
• You can add your prefered courses yourself.
• Soon management of your golf partners to be able to organize rounds quickly.

Technical features:

• implemented in django the web framework in python.
• Google maps.
• Rss feed of the reviews.
• Review and profile are entered in wiki syntax (textile).
• Use of the hatom and hcal microformats

For example, here is the map of all my clubs:

I don't know why but this golf season was very bad. I lost one point of index :-(

And to crown it all, I broke my driver this summer. I play now with a Callaway X460 but I need to be more familiar with it ;-)