Welcome New Member

[THE FIFER]

welcome aboard hope you enjoy the site

 

Philippe Polet

[JohnQuinn]

Hope you enjoy the site Philippe, and very much look forward to reading your idea's on our great hobby. Cheers John

[greenlands]

Welcome to Pigeon Basics Phillippe

[Bryngwynt Lofts]

Welcome and enjoy our great site.

[Guest homestead]

welcome Philippe enjoy the site

[tiger]

welcome

[sapper756]

a warm welcome to you Phillippe

[buster151]

welcome to Basics

[showman]

Welcome to PB, and hope you enjoy your time on here.

[Guest Philippe Polet]

Thank you all for this welcome.

 

I'm from Belgium and a big fan of this sport.

 

I will further introduce myself shortly.

 

Kind regards.

[Guest Philippe Polet]

Hello,

 

My name is Philippe. I’m 44 and coming from the French speaking half of Belgium.

Please forgive then my grammatical mistakes. I hope there will not be too much of them .

 

I started to race my own birds when I was 14. I grew up in a family of pigeon fanciers. At a time, we’ve been up to 6 fanciers only in my close family. I have so much good memories of that time!

But it was 20 years ago and I finally had to stop for professional reasons.

 

I’m an IT manager working in Luxembourg for a German company and I must regularly travel to foreign countries. Fortunately, I stay in touch with our sport thanks to two uncles, still very actives in racing pigeons.

 

Aside from pigeon breeding, I have one other passion (well actually I have also a third one which is the Civilization video game but this is another story ) that is programming software.

 

I wrote a good computer program in the 90’s to manage my loft. That tool became finally totally obsolete, even if my uncles were still using it recently; they were facing more and more issues.

 

So 2 years ago, I started to rewrite it completely, for them in the first place, using the latest internet technology. It was real fun for me to merge these two passions together and I was so happy with the result that I decided to share it with the fancier community.

 

I started to speak about it on a French forum in April and the feedback I received allowed me to improve my program a lot. I can post the list of all new features that have been developed thanks to the ideas and comments I received from that discussion thread… It is impressive and I appreciated it so much!

 

And to be honest, that is what leads me to here.

 

I’ve just translated it into English and I would like to have the appreciation of English speaking fanciers. I know my translation is not 100% accurate and also there are probably bugs linked to the kilometer-miles conversion but I think the software is quite good.

 

I hope some of you will find it interesting too dig a bit into the available features and I look forward to reading any feedback you may provide. I will also be ready to support you and to answer any question you may have.

 

I will be more than happy to open a dedicated discussion thread with more details about the software if allowed by the forum admins. Just let me know.

 

Until then, I wish you a very good start of week.

(and sorry to have been so long )

[Guest Philippe Polet]

Just to clarify, I'm not selling anything. PiRcube is free.

I'm here because I'm looking for feedback/comments/advices.

I would like to make sure my program is convenient for English & Scottish fanciers too.

[buster151]

Its only free for 3 months after signing up

[Guest Philippe Polet]

It’s free and allows you to manage your loft, your pedigrees, your results and use most available features that I can list if you want.

 

I also developed additional tools like coefficient of inbreeding calculator, strains proportion management or full offspring tree and statistics. These require a subscription of 1€ per months.

 

As I rent a professional server to host PiRcube, it has a cost and this optional subscription should allow me to not loose money. At least I hope so.

[buster151]

do you have to log in in demo to use it? as every time I try to the little box comes up to use demo

[Guest Philippe Polet]

Yes. When you have not yet introduced any data, most pages are empty and it is difficult to evaluate the different features.

 

So I created a demo account containing fictive data that anyone can use to evaluate the software. You must connect using the username demo and the password pir3demo

 

You can do anything you want there as the data are recurrently restored.

[Guest Philippe Polet]

New feature in PiRcube allowing the definition of the different strains existing in your loft and the setting of their proportion for each of your birds.

 

Here is a sample picture of the screen allowing the strains settings in the pigeon data sheet:

 

[Guest Philippe Polet]

Still added graphs showing the global proportion of all strains for your current breeders only or for all living pigeons.

 

[Guest Philippe Polet]

Small functionality added, useful during these breeding times.

 

The loft management page provides the possibility to view the pedigree of not-yet-born youngsters. With the coefficient of inbreeding calculation tool, the common ancestors and their cumulated results statistics, it’s now easier to determine the best possible partners for this coming breeding.

 

A sample of what is the new look of the brood management tool:

 

[buster151]

all looking good sir

[Guest Philippe Polet]

Thank you, it is becoming more and more complete but there are still several questions I have. Such as “Is the GB band format correctly managed in all cases? What about the conversion from kilometres to miles and the speed unit? Is the online translation tool effective?â€.

 

I need feedback to answer those questions or to improve these functionalities.

 

To encourage this, I will be happy to provide a 1 year extension of the trial period to the 5 first users whom will send the keyword “Pigeonbasics†from the Contact page of the application.