I recently upgraded my Mac to OS 10.6 and I had to rebuild Qt and PyQt to get them working again. I installed Qt 4.5.3 from source and then installed sip 4.9.1 and PyQt4.6.1. Immediately it failed to work with
NWSClient Updated
I’ve released a new version of NWSClient for Blackberry. New features include a link to a Google Map (if Google Maps for Blackberry is installed), and more customization options, including the option to have the current conditions and temperature displayed
NWS Data
When I was developing the NWSClient I had to collect the locations of National Weather Service weather stations, radar sites, and weather forecast offices. Here is the list of weather stations in Google Earth kml format and GPX. A subset
NWS Current Conditions Down
Around 6am EDT today the current conditions XML feed stopped updating. I notified NWS and I received the following reply: “There was a database cluster failure earlier this morning. System admins are working on the issue now. It should be
NOAA keeps things interesting
UPDATE: I’ve released versions 1.14 and 1.15 which fixes the problem with the decimal temperature not displaying properly. Ugh. This has been a crazy week for my little Blackberry weather app. The National Weather Service has decided to change the
NWSClient 1.1 Released
UPDATE 6/1/2009: The microscopic app icon problem has been resolved. The corrected version for Storm is v1.13. UPDATE 6/1/2009: There’s a problem with the app icon appearing too small on Blackberry Storms. Version 1.1 of my free Blackberry weather application
NWSClient for the Blackberry Storm
I’ve made a version of NWSClient for the Blackberry Storm. It is identical to version 1.0 except it has been built for OS v4.7 and the over-the-air install will not make the Storm run the application in “compatibility mode,” as
Announcing NWSClient
A Free Blackberry weather app. Back in August I upgraded my phone to a Blackberry 8330 “Curve” from Verizon. I was disappointed with many of the free weather applications on offer so I decided to write my own that uses
Java for Mac Update 2 leaves some Java Apps broken
This post has been updated, see below This morning I applied Apple’s Java for Mac Update 2 and discovered that it broke my favorite editor and most-used application, jEdit. Other people seem to be having the same problem but there
2D Transforms and QGraphicsScene
QGraphicsScene and QGraphicsItems use the QTransform class to move, scale, shear, and rotate objects in the view. For the most part, this works great. Things get a little tricky when you want to keep track of an item’s rotation in