Archives » April, 2007

More runstoppable fun

I haven’t forgotten about the Runstoppable.com Wordpress widget, I’ve just been a bit busy. Yesterday I was able to fix some of the parsing problems I was having with the Notes section. Now that those are out of the way, I’m contemplating the widget options that will be available to the user.
Since Runstoppable.com [...]

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The beginnings of the Runstoppable sidebar widget.

That’s right, I found some time. I guess that’s what happens when everyone’s sick.
On the right is a little widget titled “My Runs.” It currently links to my Runs feed from Runstoppable.com. If you click on the date, the details will expand to show the date (again… yes it’s stupid), the route, [...]

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Connecting with XSLT

The final task in my long list of internal application enhancements was to automate the export/import of various data from our current in-house CRM software to a customized installation of our own software suite. At first, I thought this might be a bit of a daunting task, but then I remembered that we already [...]

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//TODO: Runstoppable Wordpress Widget

I’m putting this here so that maybe, just maybe, I’ll remember it. I came across a web site today that peaked my interest: Runstoppable.com. It’s a free service that acts as a running log and route planner. The cool thing is, it integrates pretty heavily with Google Maps, so you can [...]

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Why I hate conversion…

Being responsible for the conversion of data from one version to another, I’ve gotten to learn a great deal about some of the intricacies of our software. I’ve also become completely frustrated with the entire process.
Why? Well, in the course of our development cycle, we are given tasks to complete (features to implement, [...]

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