Archive for September, 2009

Showing the weather with PHP and Google Weather API

weather

If you need to show weather in your website, you can use weather widget such as weatherbug. It’s nice and simple, but maybe you need something more integrated with your website. So, take a look at Google Weather API.

http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=[city name]

Example :

http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=jakarta

It will give you xml data, and you can parse it easy in PHP. Take a look at sample code.

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3 Amazing jQuery Color Picker Plugins

mixcolorpicker

Manually specify color using text input and hexadecimal value is old fashion way, and you can’t guarantee user know what is mean by #ff0000. Be friendly to your user, and give them something nice. So if you need to build web application that need user to specify a color, take a look at these amazing jQuery color picker plugins.

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Open Atrium, Open Source Project Management Software with Beauty in Mind

Did you use project management software?

Well, you should. It will keep you and your team to focus to what necessary to be done, or to communicate among your team.

Todays, it’s easy to find great project management software. Well just say Basecamp, goplan, unfuddle, many others. They give you free account to try their services.

Basecamp

Wait, you need project management software for your big project and you don’t have any money?

No problem. Take a look at Trac, Redmine and others. Well, with some struggle to install, you can use it for free.

Hmm..

Now, what? Well, I like commercial project management software because mostly they offer you more beautiful interface, and more easy to use. Trac is powerful but for me it’s just not as user friendly as the commercial one.

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