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Crusty Bugger » Nike+ iPod WordPress Widget Installation Tutorial

Woot! Got the wordpress widget installed with a few problems that I managed to fix.

Problem 1: Widget displays in miles, changed to KM

Problem 2: Somehow the DOCTYPE text is displayed before the white box. (See Screenshot). Fixed by downloading the nplus.xsl from the site, commented it out by hand, and change the script to grab the xsl from the filesystem.

Problem 3: Can’t really fix this one as I don’t have the time :P. When the plugin has got problems downloading the data from the nike plus website, we get a NaN (Not a Number) as the result. This can be solved by caching IMHO. I believe that caching the data for an hour or a day won’t stress out the data retrieval that the Nike servers sometimes faced.

Anyway, here’s a pat on the back to Chris Bert for writing such a cool utility. I can’t wait for the version 0.2

Ok, I’m all about the “not using the mouse to navigate if necessary” kind of thing. But sometimes, people take things a bit too far.

While having lunch here in Pasadena, three of us were talking about how the Snap.com search engine, for which we work, is oriented toward people who enjoy images and graphical search results, but… what about people who really don’t care about images?

Hmm. “How about ‘visearch?’ Combine a vi editor with a search engine?”

That is some cool hack you got there A search engine where you can ‘dd‘ to delete certain results, ‘j‘, ‘k‘, ‘n‘, ‘N‘, ‘GG‘ movement keys, and ‘i‘nsert comments in the search. Heck ‘:w‘ saves the search, and not to mention, the vim style ‘:set bg=white‘.

Mix all that with a black background and the wholesome goodness of glowing green terminal text, you get the awesomeness that is visearch.

Links: vi search: using commands of vi to search

This is a nice looking mod-job for the iBook.

I wonder if anyone could do this to my current iBook. That would be sweet. Pair it with wireless keyboard and mouse, it’d be a great conversation piece for the living room.

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