Fannation Blog- MLS Rookies, great sign for the future of the league June 1, 2010
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- Starcraft 2 July 30, 2010Been playing it pretty much non stop after work since it has come out. Crazy awesome game. […]
- Starcraft 2 July 30, 2010
Redesigning with Analytics
I code websites for a living. So it’s not a surprise that I hear the question from a lot of people, “So I’m thinking about redesigning my website, what do you think of . . . ?” How people finish that question ranges from color preferences to the benefits of certain technical features. On occasion I offer my advise or my opinion if it’s something I feel strongly about, but the majority of the time my answer is, “I don’t know, have you looked at your analytics?”
Toddler Hiking Backpack
Our family enjoys backpacking. For a recent trip we felt it was important that our 2 (nearly 3) year old son begin to carry a few of his own supplies. But we ran into a snag; it’s difficult to find a “real” backpack for a toddler. I checked online for toddler hiking backpacks but was surprised to find nothing. There are plenty of backpacks to carry a toddler in or backpacks made for toddlers to carry, but all were geared for books or school. We needed something with multiple pockets, durable and flexible if he was going to do any hiking with it.
Fixing the lag with Elgato EyeTV and Nintendo Wii
I came across this tip on a Youtube review for running a Nintendo Wii on iMac using Elgato EyeTV. But since I can’t remember what video it was and have yet to find the solution on any website or forum, I decided to repost it. Hopefully I can save someone else the couple hours it took me to solve the lagging issue with Nintendo Wii running over Elgato EyeTV for Mac.
Flutter: Major step in using WordPress as a CMS
It’s no secret that WordPress is being adapted to go well beyond its traditional blog functionality. In my free time I’ve been doing a lot with WP and in most cases it becomes a content management system. But for a site that isn’t a blog it’s kind of like fitting a square peg in a round hole. Pages aren’t quite pages, posts turn into special pages, tags and categories are adapted for organizing and showing data, widgets are modified to make universal yet flexible pieces on the site, and the whole thing you have to kind of “get used to”. Plugins help expand the functionality and I’ve recently started playing around with Flutter, which is proving itself to be very a powerful step in using WordPress as a content management system.
Getting your Nike+ feed into WordPress
*This post has been updated to support the latest version of nikeplusphp (2.0.1). Sorry it was out of date for so long
Nike+ is a system designed by Nike to work with Apple iPod nano, touch, and iPhone 3GS to keep track of your running and a lot more. I’ve been using it for almost two years now and love it. It’s a device that attaches on my iPod nano and gets data from a chip that’s inside my Nike shoes and keeps track of my pace, distance, etc. I can then sync my running data to nikeplus.com where it graphs and keeps track of my running history. The site is ok, it does have its weaknesses. The site is done completely in Flash. Which can be frustrating for a number of reasons.
