Author Archives: Doug Foxgrover

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 →

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Today was devoted entirely to learning new languages that we are going to use this summer. I will be dealing with the website side of things which means learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. HTML is a fairly easy language … Continue reading →