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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 . 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

OMG! I must be living in the dark ages or something, as I didn’t realize that you can tag location on a photo, and Flickr will then map the location for you.

I’m going to ‘need’ a GPS enabled camera, as this looks fun. I wonder if the Garmin Forerunner 305 can store points to be retrieved later, when I need the info. If yes, then I won’t need a GPS enabled camera after all. Oh, that watch should be on my wish list as well

This is a very interesting graph created by the Nike+iPod kit:

The graph looks progressive due to the BPM based playlist I made for my walk/jogs. I’ll post about BPM based playlist soon.

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