[Serpico]

(First post - Hi!)

Been lurking a while but this is interesting me.

I'm in the middle (well, beginning really) of developing an app to replace Klimb which I thought doesn't work well for logging fingerboard workouts or reviewing data. What sort of features would people be interested in?
- Prefer web interface or a windows app
- Is it important to have mobile versions?
- Want it to interface with devices such as heart rate monitors etc?
- How would you see the fingerboard logging working? At the moment it won't log if you are using a different hold with each hand (i.e. The large central slot to assist hanging the 45s on the beastmaker) which I realised recently might need sorting?
- How do you like to review your training?

This is a long-term free time project for me so I'm not expecting to have anything finished for the best part of a year, but I'll be after some of you training monsters to beta test if anyones up for it

Ta muchly

So, over a year on, how's it going?

[csurfleet]

Not as well as I'd have hoped, but I keep having a play every couple of weeks. One weekend soon I'm going to sit down and hammer out a full 2 days of effort on it, which should get it to an initial beta state people can look at.

Watch this space, and I'll consider myself  ed! 

[Pebblespanker]

UKC for the virtual version, updated when at work as mentioned above mine's customised and whilst not ideal I don't have the time to develop an Excel spreadsheet with VBA type coding - working in IT does that to you

Big fat page a day diary for when I am actually working out at home on the board or down t'wall so I remember the probs I did and notes on possible weaknesses (lots) so I don't forget - old age kicking in ... diary also good when you have had a bad day at the wall/board so you can look back and see how far you have progressed which is usually a positive boost

[Serpico]

Not as well as I'd have hoped, but I keep having a play every couple of weeks. One weekend soon I'm going to sit down and hammer out a full 2 days of effort on it, which should get it to an initial beta state people can look at.

Watch this space, and I'll consider myself  ed! 

Forgot to reply...
Good work on keeping with it, after the initial thread I was inspired to do some mods to Klimb. I've recently done some programming copy and paste butchering and have actually got it to a state where it's actually starting to get quite useful. Unfortunately there's just too much stuff that I don't know how to do.
At some point I'm going to upload it all to the Wiki (breath holding not advised).

[csurfleet]

I'd be interested to take a look at that, always need good ideas to steal! I'll do a couple of late nights in the office next week and see if I can't get something to look at, even if its only a couple of screenshots for people to critique.

[Serpico]

You've got the original Klimb?
I've tweaked the grade equivalence and added font and UK tech grades, added distance to the Cardio page, and Body fat% to the vitals page, added a resting heart rate and sleep quality page, and added duration to the workout log. The most useful thing I've found that can't just be done with pen and paper is add this page, which lets you see what you've done over a month and compare it to the same month last year, and see your year's total volume and compare it to the same point 12months previous.
At some point I'll upload it all to the wiki with some instructions, and possibly my tweaked version of the source code.


klimb shot for UKB

[csurfleet]

Cool, it should be simple to add stuff like that to the reporting side. At the moment everything I've done is designed to record fingerboard workouts but the climb recording stuff should mirror Klimb fairly closely.

Priority should be providing tools not currently available, so I've totally ignored stuff like weights workouts, cardio etc as other tools already do them better than I could ever hope to (mapmyride etc) but I'll look at adding them on at a later date.

In order of priority I'm looking at:
- Fingerboard workout data entry and browsing (so a diary page which will link the climbs/wieghts/cardio etc in later) - 70% done
- Vitals recording (weight/BMI/fat% etc)
- Fingerboard workout reporting
- Climbs data entry and import (allowing imports from the UKC logbook downloads to speed things up)
- Reporting
- Weights and cardio stuff

So Klimb will still be relevant for the foreseeable future. I'll make the effort to provide an import feature from Klimb if I can figure it too eventually.

[Serpico]

At some point I'll upload it all to the wiki ...

No I won't:

Upload warning
".jar" is not a permitted file type.

[csurfleet]

I could stick it in dropbox if you email me the zip?

[Serpico]

Cool, msg me your email.

[slackline]

You could grab an account yourself, they have 2Gb account free

[Serpico]

I'd not heard of it before, the reviews seem good.

[Serpico]

Right, installed it. There was a message during the install that said "Synchronizing your bank details with LagerStarfish industries", which I presume is normal?

I've dropped the tweaked version of Klimb in there for anyone who already uses the original version, just paste this version into your klimb folder in program files and make a shortcut to it.
I've another version which I currently use, which needs some modification to the existing klimb script file, which I'll upload at some point, installation of that is a bit more complicated though.
Does this deserve it's own thread?

[slackline]

Does this deserve it's own thread?

How about writing it up on the Wiki?  I've started a section for diaries under training.

[Serpico]

I've tweaked the wiki entry. Maybe a combination of wiki and a new thread?

[slackline]

I've tweaked the wiki entry. Maybe a combination of wiki and a new thread?

Good idea, make sure to change the link to point to the new thread (or to it and this one).

Perhaps have the wiki as the defacto place for documenting how to use it, and then use the thread for discussion of problems and enhancements/tweaks when people have problems, or would like to see additional functionality. 

[csurfleet]

Brill