No-Nonsense Weather 0.5.0 for WebOS (UPDATED)

Posted May 31, 2010, 10:27 p.m.

I’ve just submitted my first application for Palm WebOS: No-Nonsense Weather 0.5.0. It is open-source under the GNU-GPL license.

I was somewhat disappointed with the state of weather applications for WebOS (at least the handful that I tried), and I was also pretty disappointed with the mobile web experience on the National Weather Service web site. So, using free NWS data sources, I wrote my own weather application.

Right now it gives you a five-day forecast and lists out any current warnings, watches, and advisories for locations in the United States. By default, it uses the phone’s location services to get a forecast for your current physical location. You can change this in the settings to use a particular ZIP code instead. I have a number of future features planned before I call it a ‘1.0’; you can see a list on the application’s page, along with some screen shots.

The app. has been submitted to Palm for inclusion in the App. Catalog, but that can take a while (assuming it gets approved). As soon as it’s available I’ll let you know. If you’re daring, you can download the source code today from the app. page and then package and install it using the Palm SDK.

Available now from the Palm App Catalog! Click here.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want.

Religion is no less the companion of liberty in all its battles and its triumphs; the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning? Do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by darkness?

The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.

Follow the law of virtue; do not follow that of sin. The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and in the next.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely.

Just as in syllogistic arguments, granted one absurdity, others must needs follow; so in moral matters, given one absurdity, others must follow too.

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.

There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

Students don’t need to have their own faddish or unthinking linguistic habits merely validated at school. They need to have their communication skills sharpened and elevated, lest they enter the adult speech-world handicapped by sounding ill-educated.

You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do it. That is not what you willed, but your will has made it possible.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws . . . [that] disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

The Bible teaches truth, not opinion. This is an important element of God’s word in a world where almost any ridiculous idea is respected, almost all opinions are given equal value, and objective, immutable truth is generally denied.

My dear, when people show you who they are, why don’t you believe them?

Natural selection does not positively produce anything. It only eliminates, or tends to eliminate, whatever is not competitive.

Never explain: your friends don’t require it, and your enemies won’t believe you, anyway.