Two things are going on right now:

1. The Tour De France.

2. I need to learn a new charting library.

I started looking around and Highcharts seemed like a nice JS solution with a complete API. It does have it’s issues, however: The map is rendered without enough data points.

At the same time, I found a bunch of cool historical data on the Tour De France. I set up a MySQL database, made a few PHP pages, and here we have the results.

The most trivial being just creatig a post. It is amazing to see the acceleration, though there appears to be an plateau or possible even a decline in the last few years. Doping possibly?

What ages are winning the tour?

And the way to describe dependencies between files and media on cloud providers like Amazon S3.

Now, back to watching the races.