Continued fun with bingo and demographics generators!

[magibrain]

Today, in an effort to avoid actually writing anything (because writing is scary), I programmed functionality into my demographics/random sets generator which let you import comma-delimited lists of values. This, combined with the option I worked up a while ago which let you import random sets from the demographics generator into the bingo generator, means that I can do wacky stuff like working up a bingo card with a bunch of randomly-generated sets of things like fandom, trope, and wordcount. See below:

This is a bingo card which I will probably never do anything with, but at least it exists as a proof of concept.

Fandom: (original) Trope: I Told You So Wordcount: 100	Fandom: Stargate SG-1 Trope: Lifeboat Shortage Wordcount: 150	Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII Trope: Rickety Bridge Wordcount: 150	Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII Trope: Hopelessly Outnumbered Wordcount: 250	Fandom: (original) Trope: Water & Electricity Wordcount: 250
Fandom: White Collar Trope: Stranded in a Blizzard Wordcount: 300	Fandom: Stargate SG-1 Trope: Rickety Bridge Wordcount: 100	Fandom: Stargate SG-1 Trope: Dying Request Wordcount: 150	Fandom: White Collar Trope: Something Went Click Wordcount: 200	Fandom: Stargate SG-1 Trope: Mistaken Identity Wordcount: 300
Fandom: White Collar Trope: Keep It Safe from Them Wordcount: 200	Fandom: (original) Trope: Snake Pit Wordcount: 300	Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII Trope: It's a Bomb! Wordcount: 250	Fandom: White Collar Trope: On Fire Wordcount: 150	Fandom: White Collar Trope: Lost Child Wordcount: 250
Fandom: (original) Trope: Knife in the Back Wordcount: 200	Fandom: White Collar Trope: I Told You So Wordcount: 250	Fandom: White Collar Trope: Botched Spell Wordcount: 200	Fandom: Stargate SG-1 Trope: You Are So Busted Wordcount: 250	Fandom: White Collar Trope: Everything Is Spiders Wordcount: 250
Fandom: (original) Trope: The Pilot Just Died Wordcount: 300	Fandom: (original) Trope: Running out of Air Wordcount: 150	Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII Trope: It Looks Hungry Wordcount: 100	Fandom: White Collar Trope: ... 05 ... 04 ... 03 ... Wordcount: 250	Fandom: Stargate SG-1 Trope: Blastoff Malfunction Wordcount: 150

Now, the demographics generator (unlike the bingo generator) is still in alpha, is desperately ugly, and lacks a ton of stuff that would make it easier to use – like, say, paging down to show you that your options have, in fact, been added when you click the button in the comma-delimited list options. That's because I'm a back-end developer by trade, and just getting jQuery to play nicely enough that it would import the comma-delimited list in the first place meant an hour of hand-to-hand coding. Nicer stuff will happen later, once my urge to procrastinate on writing exceeds my frustration with front-end technologies again.

But, you know, if this sort of challenge appeals to you, there's now a clunky interface on my site that allows you to set up bingo cards like this.

In other news, today I have learned that jQuery does not like passing data out of its AJAX scope, and that you have to tell it not to run its AJAX asynchronously if you actually want to provide its information to another part of your script. Even if that part of the script comes after the AJAX call. ...I feel like that one, I should have known.

Comments

[adraekh]

Ahh, this is cool, and I may yoink/play with this this in a few weeks for inspiration to write shortish-things. :D

Thanks for sharing!

[magibrain]

Enjoy it! And let me know if you come up with any awesome new uses, or potential awesome new uses which could be supported with added functionality.