28th June 2001, 06:58 pm
Yesterday I made two new releases of PHP
Weather. The stable
version now includes a Hungarian translation donated by Gyulai
Mihály. That brings the total
number of translations up to 11.
The unstable version has also been improved. It’s now possible to get a
list of countries and a list of stations in a specific country, so that
it’s easy to make pages like the ones you find at the NWS Internet
Weather Source. All the
database backends can do this — even the ‘null’ database. So this means
that things should work right out of the box.
The output has also been changed, so that it’s more correct now. Instead of
saying things like light showers of rain it now says showers of light
rain. The problem is that showers can’t be light because it’s a
descriptor. It’s only rain that can be light because it’s a form of
precipitation. (I didn’t figure this out myself — Thanks goes to Johnny
Funder for this information.)
21st June 2001, 12:24 pm
I’m done with the gymnasium — I had my final exam two days ago. It was
in mathematics and I got 11. All-in-all I must say, that I’m very pleased
with the exams. My average grade is 10.5 which means that I have access to
whatever study I would like to try. But it really doesn’t matter, since
there isn’t any limits on Computer Science. Everybody that wants to give
it a try is let in, because there’s too few applicants.
But I now have two months of spare time before I’ll start at the
Department of Computer Science in Aarhus
(DAIMI). It’s just so great to be able to relax
after the last four weeks.
Now that I have all this spare time, I hope to make a release of the new
and improved PHP
Weather version 2.x. You
can try the snapshot or the latest code directly from
CVS. And if you haven’t noticed yet, then I’ve
moved the tarballs and zip-files to
SourceForge, so you should go
here if you want to
download it.
You’ll also find that the stable version of PHP
Weather has jumped to
1.55. The only new feature is support for proxyservers. So if you’ve been
needing that, be sure to upgrade. You’ll have to set three variables at
the top of phpweather.inc to enable the support.
14th June 2001, 02:04 pm
Yesterday was an exciting day. I went to my exam, and my mom and dad bought
a new car. We had a Citroën BX before, but
now we have a C5 :-)
As you can see on the pictures at the right, it’s a really nice car — our
model is also silver-gray. I’ve tried it already, and I must say that it’s
very silent and comfortable to drive. It runs on diesel instead of
gasoline, so the engine has a different feel to it. It’s also equipped
with servo-steering, so it’s easy to maneuver.
Compared to our old car, it has a lot of fancy features like central
locking. This is controlled by a remote control, which can also be used to
close the electric windows. Very nifty :-)
They bought a new car, mainly because the old one was getting — well
old… It’s about ten years old now. But we’re also planning to drive to
Eastern Europe this summer and have our vacation there. And with the new
car it’s much more pleasant to travel by road.
14th June 2001, 11:08 am
Yesterday I had my exam in History. And I got the grade 11. So things are
going even better that I had anticipated. Now there’s only one exam left:
Mathematics next week.
So Cookie and I will be studying hard once
again… Speaking of which — hurry over to his
site and write something nice in his
guestbook! Why? Because he scored 13
yesterday :-) Congratulations!
7th June 2001, 06:06 pm
Yesterday I had my exam in Danish. It went very well and I got the grade
11. I should analyse a short-story by the Danish writer Leif Panduro,
together with a poem. It wasn’t difficult to find the essence of the text,
which was really nice. There’s nothing worse than when you get a text (or
more likely a poem) that you don’t understand…
Next is the exam in History — so I’m reading about the great Vikings.
It’s a shame that we lost England again in 1042 ;-)
