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One of my clients is a baker, and the weather data is very important to him. Things like weather conditions and temperature affect buying patterns, and things like humidity affect water saturation in recipes. So, obviously, collecting the weather data for him to store so he can predict and refine his production was a goal of ours. I’d read a post on CSS Tricks in the past that showed how to collect weather information from Yahoo! Weather’s RSS API. I used his code as a base for creating a class so that I could collect the data we needed as an object. Read on for the code. (more…)

Not so much a post as a simple update: today I picked up an iPod touch. I wrote a dinky little app for my Palm Pre and had fun doing it, and decided I’d make an investment and learn how to make some iOS apps. It may be a daunting task sure, but I always love learning new things and expanding my skillset.

I’ve been busy with work, but intend to spend a little time learning about developing for this thing this weekend, and will be sure to post my findings as they come!

This is just an introductory post for anyone who has stumbled upon this blog before I have written anything in it. I design and develop websites for a living, having gone to school for it at Purdue University. As such I plan to dedicate this blog to things I’m doing or things I want to do with code and maybe sometimes with design. I’m sure the purpose of it will evolve over time, but the posts on this blog will be more of a technical nature than a personal one. I have another blog dedicated to “personal” things for interested readers. I imagine the content will range from little tips with HTML and CSS to full-on tutorials in Object-Oriented ActionScript and PHP. Many of the things I’ve done are things I’ve learned from other blogs on the internet, but I find that one of the ways to help me really learn something is to take it and explain it to someone else in my own terms. While a lot of it will be for my own reinforcement, I hope that anyone who reads this will have something to take away as well. Please feel free to comment or contact me, especially if I’m wrong about something!