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 is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant . . . it is important that the sovereign—the people—should possess intelligence.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

The essence of love is not a feeling but a choice, a willing.

[Groos] well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely. . . .

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Therefore the wise avoid extremes, excesses, and complacency.

Faith and reason are indeed interdependent. One of the great secrets of the universe is that reason leans on faith every bit as much as faith leans on reason.

A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

[The] confederated national government . . . should be one which would have a control over national and external matters only, and not interfere with the internal regulations and police of the different states in the union.

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.

It is only life and love that give love and life.

Wherefore, any good or evil, done to the member of a society, redounds on the whole society: thus, who hurts the hand, hurts the man.

It is good to tame the mind, which is difficult to hold in and flighty, rushing wherever it listeth; a tamed mind brings happiness.