Author Archives: Doug Foxgrover

Exchanging weather data

Wunderground protocol for uploading data to a personal weatherstation http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/PWS_-_Upload_Protocol —- Two radar animations (perhaps for our site), courtesy of WeatherUnderground: http://icons.wunderground.com/data/640×480/mw_ir_anim.gif http://icons.wunderground.com/data/640×480/mw_rd_anim.gif —- From Tom: I found these bits of information on the weather exchange file formatting: http://ambientweather.wikispaces.com/Weather+Exchange+csv+File+Format http://www.thunderheadtech.com/WxSolution/   … Continue reading

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The End

Well, looks like this is it. I uploaded all my code to COLLAB in the folder weatherFinal along with my documentation file. It’s been lots of fun, feel free to give me a holler if anything breaks or something is … Continue reading

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Nearing the end

I got the changes we talked about yesterday implemented. Some of them work, some of them don’t, and a few are questionable. Here is a summary: Added dawn/dusk and the cannon river link to the homepage Added a bar to … Continue reading

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*Clever Title Here*

Well, I got the time thing to work, i’m not really sure why it works but it does. I made a backup in case we want to revert. Also got the nav bar finalized and made some headway on my … Continue reading

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Time Struggles

The whole unixtime problem from the first page gave me such a headache by lunch that I put it away for the day. I think that there is some small detail in the PHP functions that I am missing. This … Continue reading

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Tabs Done

I re-did the tab system and have it working now. The default tab to show is the current one and it doesnt freak out when you select a different type (daily/monthly/yearly) and loses what time frame was selected. After wrestling … Continue reading

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Fun with data in Excel

I realized I hadn’t given an update in awhile, but I don’t have a whole lot to report – I’ve just been plowing through the Apple ][ data. The first part of the week was spent running various scripts on … Continue reading

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Tabs Tabs Tabs

Im working on a new way of doing the tab interface that should make it easier to play with settings like the default tab being displayed. I tried implementing a version on the almanac, but it wasnt quite done so … Continue reading

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Tabs

Today I worked on trying to clean up the tab interface. I want it to be that when you open the almanac, the daily section comes up but the 1970-today tab is selected, and I can’t seem to get it … Continue reading

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Little Things

Spent a chunk of the morning looking into the best way to add a past 24-hours plotting option. I did not know how to best approach this, and initially looked into a way for a button to change the values … Continue reading

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