davearonson/darts

Web based tool to track Toastmaster meeting roles

DARTS: Dave Aronson's Role Tracking System

This is, or rather was, a system for Toastmasters clubs to use to keep track of whose turn it was to do what role at what meeting, based on when they had last done what, and when they had signed up (or were assigned) to do what in the near future. It depended on data retrieved from FreeToastHost 1.0, which is no longer available, having been suddenly replaced by the completely incompatible 2.0. So now, DARTS resides here as a sample of what my JavaScript skills were like back around 2007 to 2009.

It was initially an offline program written in Python. I decided to translate it into JavaScript so that people could use it more easily, simply copying the HTML into their own club's file space, rather than copying the Python code, copying the hidden data files from FreeToastHost, running the Python program (possibly preceded by installing Python), and then interpreting the results.

But never fear, you can still see what it looked like in operation. First you can see the screenshots, but also there's a demo at:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9324440/darts/darts.html

The only difference is that that one retrieves the JavaScript from the same directory (i.e., doesn't specify), whereas the Real Thing (here) draws it from the Fairfax Toastmasters Club's public filespace on FreeToastHost (1.0)... which doesn't exist any more.

-Dave