I'm sold on Google AppEngine. A couple days of learning python+etc. and I have this:
![[Image: ZItOyxL.png]](http://i.imgur.com/ZItOyxL.png)
('Home' links to an index of all the monster types.)
Link to the not-very-interesting current version.
Nothing special visually, but it loads quicker than the Spreadsheet version, it's got a separate page for each type rather than forcing people to share, and the database is a much saner structure meaning the queries are simpler and faster.
todo:
- update form using Google logins (not too tricky hopefully; I have the barebones one I inserted test data with - just need to work out the login aspect, and validate inputs to positive numbers and such)
- bulk update form (so I can insert all the old info)
- admin tool to cleanly delete bad updates
- figure out how to put it online (the google Cloud site was crashing on me all of yesterday)
- special monsters (not even started)
Other thoughts:
- can add a checkbox to the update page that links the farm name to your Google account, so that in future when you view the update page you get it prepopulated with your farm's existing rows.
- can hypothetically give people access to the bulk update form, would be whitelist only
- when logged in, make each farm name a link to the update page that prefills the form with that farm+monster info, so you can one-click edit them
![[Image: ZItOyxL.png]](http://i.imgur.com/ZItOyxL.png)
('Home' links to an index of all the monster types.)
Link to the not-very-interesting current version.
Nothing special visually, but it loads quicker than the Spreadsheet version, it's got a separate page for each type rather than forcing people to share, and the database is a much saner structure meaning the queries are simpler and faster.
todo:
- update form using Google logins (not too tricky hopefully; I have the barebones one I inserted test data with - just need to work out the login aspect, and validate inputs to positive numbers and such)
- bulk update form (so I can insert all the old info)
- admin tool to cleanly delete bad updates
- figure out how to put it online (the google Cloud site was crashing on me all of yesterday)
- special monsters (not even started)
Other thoughts:
- can add a checkbox to the update page that links the farm name to your Google account, so that in future when you view the update page you get it prepopulated with your farm's existing rows.
- can hypothetically give people access to the bulk update form, would be whitelist only
- when logged in, make each farm name a link to the update page that prefills the form with that farm+monster info, so you can one-click edit them

