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There is nothing fancy about the app; its a simple user registration system combined with a "reporting" mechanism that plays a .wav file as a bgsound when an invasion is reported. I've disabled e-mail support as that caused a horrible mess in the beginning. That's all. No reason it can't be ported to another platform, no reason it can't stay as-is (except that its learning code).
My goal was to pitch the entire code base and rewrite from scratch. There are a lot of new features in .NET 2.0 that would cover the user registration system. One item I wanted to add was the ability to add districts in the browser. But there's a catch to that:
The .wav files that do the announcement are presently generated in a .NET win app. They read a database of the cogs vs. districts to pre-generate each sound file. Some names are spelled differently so they "sound" better. This is using the MS Speech SDK as a core technology. Once the files are pre-generated, I upload them--- all 1100 of them! Hence, why adding districts isn't the easiest thing to do.
Wondered if there was a web service out there that would generate the speech wav files for me, then download that to the web cache instead of pre-generating all of them.
What I had hoped to do was make this all part of a admin portion of the website, but that would require the speech sdk to be loaded on the host. With Nick owning the server its likely not an issue, but it is a consideration if you are considering a port to another platform. Its not a simple slam dunk (nor is it rocket science).
Just some technical thoughts...
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