I recently got a Cessna 172 up to a ground speed as high as the model number while on a trip to San Luis Obispo (KSBP) and Santa Barbera (KSBA). The same winds which have been powering the Southern California wildfires proved quite a boon on the return trip. At 6000 we saw tailwinds as high as 60 knots from approximately 150 to 160 degrees.
The route of flight for this particular leg was IFR: KSBA V27 KSBP. It was about 8AM local (1500 Zulu). The aircraft was a Cessna 172N, N1920F.
Of course, the other direction, while flying into the wind was not so much fun. Pictures after the break.
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In this tutorial we will examine a simple plug in created primarily as a jQuery script with just enough php to load the script. The purpose of this plug in is to change the functionality of links to audio files. If there is a link to an mp3 file on the page and the user clicks it we will add a small flash media player below the link. A second click on the link will hide the media player. In a later tutorial we will examine how to extend this to a wider range of audio types. At the end of this series of tutorials, you will have something akin to my “Dynamic-MP3″ plug in, without the administration pages.
Continue reading ‘A Simple Media Plugin – Part 1: Basic MP3 Player Replace’
Now that WordPress has moved to jQuery as its JavaScript engine (as of 2.3), there is a whole new world opened to the the plug in developer. While it has always been possible to develop a plug in for WordPress which makes use of a JavaScript component, the potential collisions with the other libraries were consistently problematic and a plug in which captured the ‘onload’ event could break all of the JavaScript on a page.
Enter jQuery:
jQuery, with its $(document).ready event nicely solves this problem. No longer does the developer need to hack JavaScript files outside of their package in order to make sure that the system execution proceeds smoothly. With the addition of XPath style selection, jQuery becomes an incredibly powerful tool for modifying WordPress without needing to delve incredibly deeply into the WordPress PlugIn API.
To that end, I am going to be writing a series of tutorials on trickery with WordPress and jQuery. I’ll add links here as theses go up.
File under: Don’t know what’s good for me.
Despite the fact that I am not the world’s most dilligent when it comes to blogs — I’ve given up 2 over the past several years due to inactivity — I decided to start another one. What’s going to be different about this blog? Well to start with, I am not going to try to write a rambling diary about inconsequentialities. Instead I am going to try and confine this blog to things of actual interest (to me): Computers/Coding, Airplanes, and anything else I find genuinely interesting.
We’ll see how it goes.
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