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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.

Filed Under: C# Coding, Running, Software Dev & Productivity

Credit Crunch Video

January 24, 2009 by wroolie 1 Comment

Charles Nwokolo, a friend and former colleague, has posted this video on You tube regarding the credit crunch:

If you like it, be sure to go to youtube and leave a comment:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RB5hghM90nI

Filed Under: Politics

CSS Revisited

January 22, 2009 by wroolie Leave a Comment

I’ve read a lot about CSS back in 2000 or so and had pretty much exhausted the subject.  In fact, I’m very proud of my css knowledge.  I read the entire CSS1 W3C specification.image

But hat was a long time ago. Yesterday morning I started reading CSS Mastery, which I picked up from the Marylebone library for a quick thumb-through.  CSS has changed a lot and browsers are more strict in terms of compliance–making some of my layout methods obsolete.

Being an IE4/5 and Netscape designer is a lot difference than a IE6/7 and Firefox designer.  Here are a few things I need to break out of the habit of doing:

  • Using tables for layout (I think in terms of nested tables)
  • Not declaring my doc-types accurately
  • Mixing Presentation (width, height, nospan, etc) with markup

I know I’m not alone in these shortcomings, but I’ve always been a believer that you need to code to current standards, and not just code until it looks okay when you refresh your browser.  Otherwise, a new browser gets released and the old forgiving browser you tested on goes away.

Anyway, my eyes are opened after the first few chapters.  Question though: will CSS soon be irrelevant in the Silverlight / Flex world?

Filed Under: Software Dev & Productivity

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