Author Archives: Doug Foxgrover

I spent the first half of the day discovering that very few people on the internet seem to be interested in transferring information from 5.25″ floppy disks to modern computers in 2011, and that even fewer people have the necessary … Continue reading →

After I rolled in at 8, I did a little more playing around with CSS until our meeting at 9. For the rest of the morning, I started investigating ways to have text pop up when you mouse over a … Continue reading →

Spent the entire day learning more about CSS and started to apply it to my site design. I re-wrote a bunch of code to make it more CSS controllable. It’s tricky to learn and I’m by no means a pro-designer … Continue reading →

The Feature Wish List. The sky is the limit!

Spent most of today writing my own version of the current site. I currently have a working homepage that displays the last data that was taken before the site was frozen and copied, along with the history and setup pages. … Continue reading →

I spent the bulk of today reading the book on relational database systems, taking breaks to play around with PHP a bit more and to track the storms that have been hovering and swirling around Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas … Continue reading →

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 →