- Cutting planned features/Prioritized
- Stay simple
- This is a side project, a side project, a side project
- [important] Making sure it can run with a very minimum time and money forever so it won't just die (hence using GAE, no domain yet).
- Allocate no more than 1-2 hours a day
I'm assuming most visitors are interested in their hometeam's games rather than the league at large.
I don't know who the visitors are but I'd like to fix the actual "game-time" (normalized to UTC, then convert to visitor's local time) and to add TV schedules as well (USA, Canada, Intl) first before doing other things.
For now, people can bookmark the URL to their favourite team, e.g.: http://nbaschedules.appspot.com/heat.html
Having said that, my app is 100% static pages :) (may change in the future).
There's a JS library out there that can help me to achieve time normalization.
You currently have the games as <home team> vs <away team>, it would be clearer if it were <away team> at <home team> (with the time zone indicated, preferably eastern time).
My plan was to UTC-ed all the time and present them to the visitor based on their local timezone (so no need to convert PST, EST, or even worse for international visitors).
But the concept of <away team> at <home team> is definitely better! Thanks a lot!