Posted by Kevin, on March 22nd, 2009
Seems I’m constantly in a state of jealously over some of the plug-ins that are available and being created for WordPress. I’d love to see similar modules created for Drupal of course. The latest plug-in I was coveting was the Earth Hour plug-in created by Duane and Dale of BraveNewCode. Not long after I saw it, I put a tweet out on Twitter asking if something similar existed for Drupal. I didn’t hear anything back, and to be honest, I didn’t really expect to. Well as it turns out, @mgifford saw my tweet and actually set to work on porting the WP plug-in that BraveNewCode wrote to Drupal! Once he had it running, he posted about it and let me know via twitter that it was available. I’ve now got it installed, and I’ve been watching the counter for the number of sites grow steadily! It’s pretty sweet, so if you’ve got a drupal site, why not install the module?
Posted by Kevin, on March 9th, 2009
I recently got a chance to be a beta tester for an iPhone application. Specifically it was for an updated version of the RunKeeper Pro application. (iTunes link) This application will track your speed and distance for a particular activity (walking, running, cycling, etc) and then plot your course on a google map for you to look at and share with others (if you like). They even have integration with Twitter so you can tweet your results!
How did I get this chance? Read on for a bit of background before I talk about the experience.
Back around the middle of January, I noticed a tweet by iphoneincanada saying that for one day only the RunKeeper Pro application for the iPhone was free. (As a side note, I read later that the reason it was free for a day had something to do with being able to introduce two versions (free/paid) but allow existing customers access to the ‘Pro’ version for no charge – some shortcoming of the iPhone App Store I think) Anyway, with me being such a fan of free stuff, I decided to download the RunKeeper Pro version for free, just in case I’d ever want to use it. I remember thinking at the time that I couldn’t see myself ‘lugging’ my iPhone with me on runs, it just seemed too bulky. This is kind of funny when you consider I used to drag my Garmin eTrex Legend along with me on some runs just to be able to get a GPS track of the run, but maybe not as funny when you consider I had been using an iPod shuffle on my runs in the not too distant past.
