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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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Loose Ends

Finished going through and commenting the code today, cleaned some little stuff up while I was at it. I also got the moons working on the homepage, and added a footer to each page (which I will probably style differently … Continue reading →

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Unusual weather

All the remaining floppies from Wednesday, as well as the ones Doug found yesterday, have been transferred to the Mac, and all .dsk files have been printed out to text files. I didn’t have any more disks that couldn’t be … Continue reading →

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Almost finished

The plot page is all but finished, there is just a small issue with some parts of a table that contains the date adjustment links. All the heavy lifting is done, now it is just the small details. I spent … Continue reading →

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From 5.25″ floppy to .txt

Today was mainly spent transferring weather data – first from floppy disks on the Apple ][ to .dsk files on the mac via ADT, then from the .dsk files to .txt files via Virtual ii. There were fortunately only two … Continue reading →

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Dates for our data?

The main problem we’ve run into so far as we’ve started transferring weather data to the Mac (besides the outside temperature for every field in November ’95 and January ’96 being 195.6 degrees fahrenheit, but there’s not much to do … Continue reading →

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