PlanetJudo.com Updates

Hi PlanetJudo users,
I just wanted to post a quick update to update people as to what is happening with the site and so forth.

First up, blog counts:

• French Judo Blogs: 10
• Spanish Judo Blogs: 25
• English Judo Blogs: 124

Interestingly, when I look at the traffic on the site, English beats Spanish by very little with French quite a way behind. That is except for last month (August 2011) when the french part of the site was most heavily visited; I presume due to the World Championships being held in Paris.

I am very fortunate that Ibai looks after the Spanish part of the site, seeing as I don’t speak Spanish. If you would like to see a version of the site in your language, please do contact me. I would very much like to add a Japanese section in the near future and increase the number of French sites included. German is probably next after Japanese.

Those of you looking for the iPhone application may have noticed it is no longer on the AppStore, this will be remedied soon and I hope to start development on the app again soon.

Development on the site has stalled considerably with my hectic travel schedule and trying to keep my “real job” going. Also I launched a new web project recently, CarMindr.com which is a car MOT reminder service. That has been absorbing what little freetime I have had. But it has been live for a month now and is stable, so I can shave a little time for PlanetJudo and for blogging.

As always, any suggestions, questions, ideas, complaints welcomed via email to lw@judocoach.com

Lance

Hi everyone,

the French Language version of PlanetJudo is now live at http://www.planetjudo.com/french and is our second language specific version of Planet Judo after Ibai helped create http://www.planetjudo.com/spanish

Along with the new version, I have made some small changes to the site like adding different flags, a favicon and improving the speed performance for the Spanish site (hopefully anyway).

The French site only has a small number of feeds and the translation is not good. I’d appreciate any help you might be able to give in getting the terminology correct.

Lastly… I have added a donate button to the front page http://www.planetjudo.com As the site is getting bigger and more popular, the bandwidth consumption keeps going up as does the storage for the website. This all costs money to keep online, so if you find the site useful to you and have a few bucks/pounds/euros to spare, please consider clicking on the donate button on the front page and supporting the cause.

Whats next?

The next steps I’d like to take with the site are to create a German language version of the site in the short term and to completely re-write the code that runs the site in the long term. German was the close second in the vote that saw French chosen as the latest language version, so I’d like to progress that in the next month or so (any German speakers able to help?). I am also contemplating a Japanese version.

In the longer term, I would like to look in depth at the code that runs in the background to see if I can make it run faster. And more importantly to try and make the process of managing the site, adding new languages, etc easier and less work. I also want to lessen the load on the server. So again a few donations would really show me that people care about the site and the service it provides bringing all the Judo blogs together to make them easier to follow and easier to find.

Of course, if you find any problems on the site, just email me ( lw@judocoach.com ).

Yours in Judo,

Lance