Monthly Archives: June 2011

Today I took a break from playing around with mySQL and spent most of the day going through the PHP tutorial that Will recommended last week, which is extremely engaging.  I was planning on delving a bit further into the … Continue reading →

I was poking around some of the old files from 2010 on COLLAB this morning when I stumbled across a PERL script. Having spent the good part of the last week looking at PHP scripts, tutorials and documentation, I decided … Continue reading →

The first half of yesterday was devoted to loading the 2010 raw weather data into databases that Will and I could use on both my own computer and the second lab computer.  I spent a lot of time playing around … Continue reading →

I spent all of today slowly plowing through all of the current site files. There are a lot of files in the directory, some of which are in use and some of which that arent. It was hard to discern … Continue reading →

After getting access to some of the past drafts of the weather site this morning, I started designing my own version of the site (essentially the same as what is in place right now) to get more comfortable with PHP. … Continue reading →

Today with Doug’s help I successfully installed XAMPP on my computer so that I could really start playing around with mySQL!  The excitement wore off a little bit as I realized there are only so many neat tricks I can … Continue reading →

My first two days on the weather programming job consisted mainly of getting a feel for the Carleton weather website and the tools I’ll need to be comfortable with to work with it.  I looked at the Carleton weather page … Continue reading →

Today was spent on learning PHP. Pretty cool stuff, a lot of fun to work with. The tutorial I was using was located here. Using Xampp, I set up an Apache server and began playing around with PHP scripts as I … Continue reading →

This site is for the weather station at Carleton College in Northfield, MN.

Day 1 was spent mostly gather a lot of background information about weather terminology, the features and drawbacks of many weather sites and beginning to explore programming languages that are being used on the project. I spent the morning and … Continue reading →