Monday December 2, 2002

In between working on C++ code at work I've been putting together PHP code to load weather readings into a mySQL database (fired off by a cron job) and some PHP routines for turning the accrued data into meaningful graphs. The goal is to replace the images on our weather page. Currently they are produced by a program called VWS, running on a home pc and uploaded regularly. That's a bunch of large uploads, which aren't viewed all that often. So now the data scripts are grinding, the graphing scripts are plotting, and it's just a matter of getting a few more weeks of readings into the database to have some fun.