API
Python And WeatherBug API Used For Ann Arbor
Today I was given a reminder of just how easy it is to use the WeatherBug API. A student just starting out in the programming world recently took the WeatherBug API, tossed in some basic Python and came up with a very good initial effort! As you can see from this link, the student’s project [...]
Favorite WeatherBug API Application Roundup
During the course of 2008, WeatherBug lead the way with their API efforts. Today I wanted to highlight some of my personal favorites. WeatherCurve- A fantastic way to plot a trip of a 100 miles or more. Because weather changes can greatly affect travel conditions, WeatherCurve allows its users to plot a course while also [...]
Weather Syndication For Your Web Site
Weather on your Web site: what are your options and which is best for static sites vs. blogs? This is a question that has come up a few times in recent months. Based on this, I thought it might be worth putting together a blog post to explore what WeatherBug offers for those who wish [...]
WeatherBug Brings Live Streaming Weather Data To Second Life
First brought to public light during the WeatherBug API contest, Cranial Tap Inc. has officially released their latest concept into the wilds of the virtual world known as Second Life. Enter the WeatherBug powered weather panel for Second Life! [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/0qDILwBc15U" width="320" height="240" wmode="transparent" /] The motivation for Cranial Tap to develop a weather panel [...]
Weather In Your Linux Terminal
Weather info in your command line terminal? You bet, thanks to the efforts of Mike @ The Linux and Unix Menagerie. The script is fairly straight forward – give the command for it to run, then enter the zip code you would like to get the forecast from. As you can see from the video [...]
The Lastest WeatherBug API Example
Over the past month and a half or so, we have had some tremendous API submissions before the API contest came to an end. Some of the API apps created were designed for localized installation, while in other cases API submitters used server side solutions powered by such programming languages as PHP. Today, I would [...]
ProgrammableWeb Features API Contest Winners
Recently ProgrammableWeb featured the winners of the WeatherBug API contest. It’s great to the have ProgrammableWeb sharing the winners with their audience as we have with ours. As previously mentioned, each entry was well done and all of the participants did a fantastic job with their submissions. As we have mentioned previously, the winners of [...]
FetchIt! – WeatherBug API Entry
One of the great things about the WeatherBug API is how flexible it is. Take FetchIt! using C++ as the programming language of choice to bring it to the Windows Mobile front. In addition to FetchIt! providing its users with immediate access to RSS and podcasts, you will also find WeatherBug weather being offered as [...]
Inthrma – WeatherBug API Entry
Even as the API contest came to a close, the contest entries are still being posted due to the sheer volume. Today’s entry is about a program called Inthrma. Unlike many of the other programs using the WeatherBug API however, Inthrma steps out of the role of the traditional program and actually has the ability [...]
AirMe – WeatherBug API Entry
With Apple’s latest iPhone release, the new iPhone App Store has been all the rage. Well as it turns out, one of our entries to the WeatherBug API Contest was an iPhone application that not only adds a whole new dimension to uploading photos to Flickr, it does so while providing a tag relating to [...]
