From: Henry Maddocks <henryj@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T07:58:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby WX (weather)


On 27/01/2007, at 6:35 AM, Hans Fugal wrote:
> However, and this was my rationalization for being too lazy, most of
> the weather geek things are the sort of thing you're not likely to use
> unless you're a weather geek. Will you programmatically use whether  
> the
> sky is CLR or SKC or anything else unless you're a weather geek? If  
> you
> do I will by all means get off my tuff and make the aliases. :-) The
> things the average ruby programmer will care about are straightforward
> enough. temp, wind, etc.

I would have thought knowing if it is overcast, clear, scattered  
cloud etc is something a non weather geek would be into. But then I  
used to work for a weather company so maybe that makes me a wx geek.


>   Do remember that I intend to soon include
> string readouts (prose and tabular) which anybody will be able to  
> read.

I look forward to seeing that.