Weather Widget
September 24th, 2011
This Weather Widget is the completion of a project that started in 2005 while I was working on the web site for the EECS Department at the University of Kansas. The department wanted to integrate a weather widget into their web site.
At that time I didn't know how to integrate a feed of weather data, however I did know how to create illustrations of the various weather conditions as they would look on campus. So that's what I did while someone else merged the illustrations with the data.
Now that I know how to do that myself I thought I would spend a couple hours to grab some weather data and associate the weather conditions with the graphics I created six years ago. The script loads the latest RSS weather data from the Yahoo Weather API and parses it.
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