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Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank
From what I observed at the Canadian Regional, they had Flash displaying all the scoring and ranking, and a MySQL database holding all the data, but I'm not sure what they used to link the two together.
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My guess is that there is some kind of server running on those computers that accepts connections from the flash displays. Those probably use the XMLSocket object or whatever it is called in actionscript to connect.
Anyone know if the whole stuff was working well? Or was it more trouble than worth? Do you think its a good idea for FIRST to go to such a radically different set up this year? I pretty sure they used Windows before with some kind of database (maybe Filemaker?).