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August In Photos 2010

Randy Hicks — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:05:18 +0000

Here are some of my random pics from August of 2010!!! Hope you enjoy

Cedar Hill Park Disc Golf, Nashville TN

Randy Hicks — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:04:51 +0000

I finally made it out to a new course the other day. I’ve been hearing about this course for the last year or more and just never had the energy to make it out there. Cedar Hill Park just put Nashville one notch up on my scale! This disc course is really amazing, it’s on par with some of the best courses I’ve played.

The Cedar Hill Course seems to cater to every through. They have all concrete pads, well placed baskets and plenty of trees to make every shot count. For me the great thing is they have a number of very technical shots, but still have just enough long drives to let you cut loose!

Honestly, I went and checked out the course at pdga.com and dgcoursereview.com before I went, and from the look of it I thought this was going to be another humdrum course. Truth is the pictures I took below don’t make this course look very intimidating, all the same it’s is a challenge!

Here are some pics I took from the tees, however, I guess I forgot hole 18?

WPNashville – The Nashville WordPress Community

Randy Hicks — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:55:05 +0000

WPNashville is here and it’s for you the Nashville WordPress Community! At this point we are flying under the radar hoping to catch all the bugs and grammar checks. We are also hoping correct anything that may not comply with the WordPress standards. Please, go and read click around and let us know if there is anything you would do better or different. We at WPNashville are trying to support and encourage the Nashville WordPress Community, not re-create it.

Here is a little of what you’ll find.

Our Goal

Our Goal is to represent Nashville to the WordPress community, and to provide the opportunity to connect with other WordPress users in the local area. We would like this community to be your resource and an alternative to endlessly scouring the internet for the tinniest answer. We hope that what is found here will fall directly in line with what you’ll read on the WordPress.org/about page.

Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. – WordPress.org/about

Our Hope

Through meeting up every week or every other week we hope to provide a steady, useful group of WordPress users that are willing to help out those of us who have pulled our hair out over the simplest questions. We encourage face to face hands-on learning from friends, piers and other WordPress users. Above all we hope to encourage meeting new people. Learning WP is great, but meeting other people in your local community is made so much easier when you have something in common. Reading about other people’s lives has encourage most of us to start writing about our own, and in turn we’ve meet countless people we would have otherwise never known.

July In Photos 2010

Randy Hicks — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:07:49 +0000

Here are some of my random pics from July of 2010!!! Hope you enjoy

Does My Scooter Need Insurance?

Randy Hicks — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:53:09 +0000

So the questions is what do I need by law to be on the road with my scooter? Honestly a common sense person would tell you that you’re going to need the usual stuff, but hey I’m not your usual person. I spent the last two years under the radar thinking by 50cc Honda Ruckus didn’t need insurance & registration. HA!! That is now some what laughable and believe me I have laughed at myself quite a bit for thinking thinking it was true.

Yesterday, 7-29-10 I was pulled over twice for the expired tags. The first officer gave me a citation to fix all I needed to fix, and was willing to let me head back home with little scooter. Weeelll, I did but later that same day had a meeting across town and thought, “hey, I just got my first ticket in two years so what are the chances!”. HA!!! The chance was pretty high, apparently I was destined to have my scooter put into the system. I was pulled over about 5min from my house by a motorcycle cop.

This time there wasn’t as much sympathy for the situation. The cop was a nice guy, but he said he wasn’t going to let me slide and proceeded to have my scooter taken to the impound. He did however give me a tip, that if I was to get my scooter out of the impound with in 2hrs of it’s arrival I would save $200. (for what ever reason the price on an impound, at this place, goes up $200 after the first 2hrs, weird.)

So what did I do?

I decided that it was best to spend a little cash on a U-Haul than wait and spend even more cash on the impound. Not to mention all the hassle of finding a truck that can haul the scooter. In the end I spent about $50 on U-Haul and about $100 on the impound. Yeah that sucks, and makes me some what of a dumbass for not taking care of business sooner, but I seem to learn the hard way a lot of the time.

What’s the point?

Now you know, your 50cc scooter needs Insurance & Registration.

June 2010 in Photos

Randy Hicks — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:00:59 +0000

Here is my month in pics for June 2010. It’s rather pitiful if you look back on the other months, but hey who’s counting right! Enjoy! :)

May 2010 in Photos

Randy Hicks — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:33:39 +0000

Here are my latest random photo’s of last month. Enjoy! :) Still can’t believe that Nashville flooded!! Craziness!!!

Nashville Is Under Water!!!

Randy Hicks — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:27:43 +0000

Read the story @SarahSanfino.com

April 2010 in Photos

Randy Hicks — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:37:56 +0000

Here are my latest random photo’s of last month. Enjoy! :)

VC WordPress Theming

Randy Hicks — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:15:46 +0000

I’ve been developing with WordPress for about 2.5 yrs and this morning I really wanted to write something about all the work that I do, but am realizing that I just don’t know what to say with out writing a freaking book on the DevTime of WordPress. Not to mention there are so many people out there who have already laid down the law on what WordPress is.

So to curb my need to publish I though I would share a WP function that I have found to be a huge time saver, and something WP uses a lot. As you’ll see below it’s not much to speak of and it’s fairly basic in the scheme of things, but it will save a lot of time when comparing incoming variables with default variables.

wp_parse_args()

You can find this in wp-includes/functions.php -> line 2887 wp3.0 beta1



/**

* Merge user defined arguments into defaults array.

*

* This function is used throughout WordPress to allow for both string or array

* to be merged into another array.

*

* @since 2.2.0

*

* @param string|array $args Value to merge with $defaults

* @param array $defaults Array that serves as the defaults.

* @return array Merged user defined values with defaults.

*/

function wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults = '' ) {

if ( is_object( $args ) )

$r = get_object_vars( $args );

elseif ( is_array( $args ) )

$r =& $args;

else

wp_parse_str( $args, $r );

if ( is_array( $defaults ) ) return array_merge( $defaults, $r ); return $r; }

Here is an example being used in the form function of a widget class, which is a great place to set defaults variables.



function form( $instance ) {
$widget_options = get_option('_my_widget_options');
//Defaults

$defaults = array(

'title_display' => 'Text',

'text_title' => '',

'image_title' => '',

'link' => '',

'post_cat' => $widget_options['post_cat'],

'post_count' => $widget_options['post_count'],

'word_count' => $widget_options['word_count'],

'read_more' => $widget_options['read_more'],

'strip_tags' => $widget_options['strip_tags'],

'show_thumbnail' => '',

'show_video' => '',

'css_class' => ''

);
$r = wp_parse_args( $instance, $defaults );

extract( $r, EXTR_SKIP );

echo 'do cool stuff here...'; }

So yeah, really exciting stuff right? Maybe not, but hey if you’re into php & WordPress you should check this out for sure. It’s been around for while so there is really no excuse.