So I ran another half marathon. It was the Miami Beach 13.1. Well I attempted to run it. I probably should have stopped when I got foot pain at mile 1. The weather was too nice to pass up…oh well. I got through it and got my medal! I’ll be taking a Brett Favre style retirement from running for a while.

I’m looking forward to running this race again. Hopefully next year I can stay injury free. I’d like to see how I can deal with all the big bridges while not having to deal with pain.

While working on a project today I figured out how to use jQuery’s $.ajax functionality to consume an ASP.NET 1.1 web service. I was always under the impression that this wasn’t possible. However, this is quite easy. By default an ASP.NET 1.1 web service will accept an HTTP GET, HTTP POST, or HTTP SOAP. Calling a 1.1 web service is as easy as:

$.ajax({
	type: "POST",
	url: 'PathToYourService.asmx/FunctionName',
	data: 'foo1=value1&foo2=value&foo3=value',
	dataType: "xml",
	success: function(xml) {
		//do something with your data
	}
});

Replace the data variables with your service parameters and you should be all set. jQuery makes parsing all that XML really easy as well.

I ran my first half marathon this weekend. It was the Miami ING marathon. The humidity was awful but at least we didn’t get the rain that was supposed to hit us. It was tough but I got through it and I’m still standing (sort of). This was a major accomplishment for me. I didn’t think I’d ever be able to do this. I’m doing another one in 5 weeks!

I made this video on our camping trip this weekend. It’s about a 2 hour span crammed into 24 seconds. Pretty cool… This app on my phone is the coolest thing ever.

I used iMotion on my iPhone to create this short time lapse video. It snapped a picture every 30 seconds. The playback is 15 frames per second. Pretty cool little app. I can already imagine a bunch of uses for this.