My Life – Page 16

Heavy snow in London

February 3, 2009 by wroolie Leave a Comment

So yesterday, the big news here in the UK is the heavy snow. I made the trip into London yesterday as usual, but found lots of trains cancelled and had to wait a long time to get in. The snow meant I couldn’t ride the motorcycle for any of the trip.

Things were so bad that we only worked a half day anyway and tried to make the difficult trip home.

Now, it’s 5:45 am and I’ve been looking through websites trying to determine whether it is worth making the effort at all today.

Here are some pictures I took yesterday:

Everyone says the same thing: in lots of places, this is nothing! True. I can’t imagine them closing down Minneapolis for this kind of snow.

I tried to act all tough– like I can handle this easily because I’m American and we see this all the time. Of course, I grew up in California– so I am just as inexperienced as anyone else.

Nike+ plugin from ear-fung.us

January 28, 2009 by wroolie 2 Comments

I’ve been messing around with the Nike+ api and C# for a while now. It’s one of the projects I play with to keep my skills up before heading off to work. One of the big influences of this project is the WordPress API developed by Mark at www.ear-fung.us.

Since moving back to WordPress from Dasblog, I havent’ been able to get this working because of my windows host. Now, after a few weeks of migration, I’ve finally moved to a Linux VPS. You can see my 3 most recent runs on the right-hand menu. Thanks Mark.

Nike+ C# code

January 28, 2009 by wroolie 1 Comment

A lot of people are emailing me with problems they are having downloading the Nike+ api code from Google Code. In order to access it, you need a google api login and password. This sucks, I know.

I will try to find a more open svn repository for this. I use some for Overpass, but don’t really want to mix my pet project with it. For the meantime, here is the project as it stands now. If you are finding this post at a day later than 28 January 2009, you might want to look for a future post where I give more up to date source code.

The is mostly the API, so don’t expect a nice GUI. However, I have included a windows app which I use for quick tests. I also have some unit tests, but these need to be maintained a little better. My plan was to work on this a bit more before releasing it, but a lot of people seem to be looking for something like this.

http://wroolie.co.uk/files/Nike+.zip

There is no rocket science here. The only difficult bit is connecting to Nike+. You can lift the code from this project if you want to. Ideally, see if you can access the SVN repository. If you add anything cool to it, please let me know. I mostly work on this when I have a few spare minutes here and there (and I don’t have much of those), so it would be nice to see it grow or see if it is used anywhere interesting.