Martin Geisler Online

For some time now we’ve been connected to the Internet by the Danish provider Stofa. The connection is done via a cable-modem, so we can get a throughput of about 100 Kb per second. That’s not so bad :-)

The only problem was that Stofa didn’t have a flat-rate solution. But they have now and it’s called FlexRate. With FlexRate you can download up to 2 gigabytes every month for just 200 Danish krones (approximately 25$). Today we pay about 450 Danish krones a month (about 55$).

So, now I just cant wait to the new subscription is active!

PHP Weather will now calculate the relative humidity for you. It does this by using the temperature, and dew-point.

This also means thay you ought to be using at least version 1.17. I know the version-number has been incrementing pretty fast lately, but as you already know this is open source software, so user requests will be implemented as soon as I get the time.

And don’t worry, your old scripts will still works with this release, so there’s really no excuse for not upgrading :-)

I’ve just updated PHP Weather again. There was a bug in the code that parsed the air-pressure. I now know that the pressure can be written both as A2991 and as Q1013. The first form is 29.91 inHg and the second is 1013 hPa.

I thought that the pressure was always measured in hPa, so all the altimeter_* numbers were wrong if the pressure was reported in inHg. PHP Weather now deals correctly with both forms.

The version-number in you copy of PHP Weather should now say 1.11. You can find this number in the top of phpweather.inc.

This time Stefan Wiesendanger has speeded up the parsing by replacing the large switch- and case-statements with a couple of arrays. This also makes it easy to translate PHP Weather into other languages. If you do so, then please mail me, so that I can organize the translations.

Last week gimpster.com had a kind of anniversary. I’ve now had my domain six months! That meant that I’ve just paid almost 100 dollars to NETsite :-) But that’s okay — they have been quick and helpful when answering my questions. It only took them a few days to transfer me to this new server.