{"id":2030,"date":"2014-12-21T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2014-12-21T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:27:10","slug":"derbylisting-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/derbylisting-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Derbylisting.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last posted. While a lot has been happening, I wanted to highlight one thing on particular. The list of roller derby leagues that used to live in a spreadsheet is now available as a website.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/derbylisting.com\">Derbylisting.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will make it easier to find and easier for me to update since everything is now housed in a database. \u00a0Three cheers for databases!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of the tools and tech used to build the site&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ghost.org\">Ghost<\/a> was used for the blog portion. While I&#8217;m more familiar with WordPress, I opted for Ghost to try something new, and because it&#8217;s a bit more lightweight than WordPress. I modified the free theme <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zebheone\/GhostScroll\">Purple Slimer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trirand.com\/blog\/\">jqGrid<\/a> was used for the list display. I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/datatables.net\">DataTables<\/a> first, and while it resulted in a more aesthetically pleasing grid\/table, I found jqGrid&#8217;s logic easier for me to grasp and manipulate. It does appear that jqGrid is changing a bit (and changing names to <a href=\"http:\/\/guriddo.net\">Guriddo<\/a>) so I do need to make sure the new version fits my needs. \u00a0And I\u00a0plan\u00a0on testing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jqwidgets.com\">jqWidgets<\/a>&#8216; grid at some point.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysql.com\">mySQL<\/a> was used for the database. I don&#8217;t particularly love mySQL, but my host offers support for it so I just went with that. It&#8217;s also easy to use, despite it&#8217;s quirks. \u00a0I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlite.org\">SQLite<\/a>, but it required a bit more effort to make my data model work the way I wanted.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/php.net\">PHP<\/a> was used to connect to the database and convert the results into JSON so that they could be displayed in the grid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s the big stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Chris Bojanower for allowing me to use the great photo on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last posted. While a lot has been happening, I wanted to highlight one thing on particular. The list of roller derby leagues that used to live in a spreadsheet is now available as a website. Introducing&#8230; Derbylisting.com This will make it easier to find and easier for me to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,51,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook-friendly","category-linkage","category-roller-derby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}