It’s been a hectic year, but I’m very glad to announce the first of two updates for the UniScore website!

New Features:

• New members account area
• The Buddies League – this allows you to see much more detailed statistics about you and your friends.
• Added player in-game statistics comparison so you can see who is the best at checking out, scoring high or number of time you’ve won/lost against this person.
• Watch match facility new design.
• In game page new design.
• The ability to hide the top (title) of the site during a match to save space on smaller computers.
• Added new “quick links” in the navigation to help people traverse the website.
• Added some code to stop a member accidentally hitting “Score It” twice.
• You must now log in when ever you play a match, registration is of course free.

My Account

In-game Screen

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a known issue where decimal places can be submitted.

The votes are in:

Would you be interested in playing somebody over the internet, and if so would you like us to find competitors that are at your skill level?

We now have a new vote running! When starting a match would you like the option to start on a double, statistics would be separated from non-double off matches… Place your votes now at http://uniscore.unicorn-darts.com/vote.pl

The Buddies League:

Buddies League

There is a new page called “Buddies League”. Any time you play against another registered user they’ll be automatically added to your Buddies League.

Once you’ve completed a match against this person you’ll be able to see where they’re positioned in your league and you’ll be able to review details about how they’re doing better/worse than you.

New Statistics Available:

• Number of legs won against each person
• 3-dart average
• Top overall checkout
• Checkout percentage
• Number of 180s scored
• Number of 140s scored
• Number of 120s scored
• Number of 100s scored
• Fewest darts used to checkout
• Number of 3-dart finishes
• Number of 2-dart finishes
• Number of 1-dart finishes

Due to the popular demand of UniScore that statistics are now updated daily.

We will need you to simply use the site as you would http://uniscore.unicorn-darts.com and report anything that doesn’t quite look or act as you would expect… if you would also like to post any questions or comments about the new updates that would also be greatfully received.

You will be sent details to a development copy of the website where you’ll be able to login with your own account details.

Any volunteers? Please post here.

When I originally wrote the code for UniScore dealing with this I chose legs + sets… Now I’m not so sure, what do you think? Should I add both and let the members choose their preference or should it be left “as is”?

Please feel free to have your say either here, on Twitter or Facebook, what do you think, are there other options I’ve not considered?

Although I’ve been tinkering around with C and Objective-C in the past this is the first time I’ve been able to put it to use outside of my Systems Administration role! As this is my first iPhone app I really wanted it to be as feature rich as possible to show exactly what can be done and the best way for me to do this is to develop an application for UniScore (uniscore.unicorn-darts.com), giving you access to all the features that it currently supports with the vision to add (or bolt) on features as they get added to the framework (utilising XMLRPC services such as SOAP).

I will be adding a directory of my applications along with other work (that I’m allowed to publicise) and CV soon, so watch this space!