http://phonegap.com/

MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer.

http://mootools.net/

MooLego UI is a small, minimal & extensible, Object-Oriented JavaScript User Interface Framework based on Mootools.

http://ui.moolego.org/

Plupload allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms,

http://www.plupload.com/

APE is a full-featured OpenSource solution designed for Ajax Push.  (Uses mootools for its server-side JavaScript)

http://www.ape-project.org/

Lately, I have been exploring the Silverlight technology.  I wanted to share with you the application I wrote with this interesting technology.

The application is another weather forecaster, you type in your zip code and it goes out to Weather Underground and grabs the data to build the page.

Download the source: HERE
Preview the app: HERE

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace YahooWeather
{
    class Program
    {
        public string appid { get; set; }

        public Program(string appid)
        {
            this.appid = appid;
        }
    }
}

It starts off as any program does with a basic namespace deceleration, as you can see there is one property called appid that gets set when you create an instence of this class.

        public string GetWoeid(string Zipcode)
        {
            string query = String.Format("http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q('{0}')?appid={1}", Zipcode, this.appid);
            XDocument thisDoc = XDocument.Load(query);
            XNamespace ns = "http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/schema.rng";

            return (from i in thisDoc.Descendants(ns + "place") select i.Element(ns + "woeid").Value).First();
        }

This function loads up http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/ and grabs the XML stream with LINQ then returns the woeid. The woeid is a unique number that identifies your location

Next, we have to get the weather RSS feed from Yahoo using your woeid

        public void GetWeather(string Zipcode)
        {
            string query = String.Format("http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w={0}", GetWoeid(Zipcode));
            XDocument thisDoc = XDocument.Load(query);
            XNamespace ns = "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0";
            var results = (from i in thisDoc.Descendants(ns + "forecast") select i);

            foreach (var thisResult in results)
                Console.WriteLine("{0}, it will be {1} with a low of {2} and a high of {3}", thisResult.Attribute("date").Value, thisResult.Attribute("text").Value, thisResult.Attribute("low").Value, thisResult.Attribute("high").Value);
        }

This function prints out the current weather conditions. In the same way we got the woeid (parsing xml/rss), we are getting the weather results. All thats left now is the main procedure.

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Program thisYahoo = new Program("<strong>YOUR KEY HERE</strong>");

            Console.Write("Enter your zip code please: ");
            thisYahoo.GetWeather(Console.ReadLine());

            Console.Write("Press Enter...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

View the Yahoo GeoPlanet API documentation | View the Yahoo Weather API documentation | Get a Yahoo application ID

I used to have a web server running IIS and BlogEngine.  When people come to my new site looking for an article they will get a nasty error.  For one the site is now PHP.  I wanted to remap all the files from the old URL’s to the new URL’s.

Old URL
http://www.devclarity.com/blog/post/topic.aspx

New URL
http://www.devclarity.com/index.php?s=topic

I figured I would just put a redirect in .htaccess, but little did I know that the web server sees the .aspx extension of the old URL and processes it on the IIS server.  Thanks a lot Rackspace Cloud

Solution

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <system.web>
		<customErrors defaultRedirect="redirect.aspx" mode="On">   
		    <error statusCode="500" redirect="redirect.aspx" />
		    <error statusCode="404" redirect="redirect.aspx" />
		    <error statusCode="403" redirect="redirect.aspx" /> 
		</customErrors>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

<%
	Dim ASPXPath as String
	
	ASPXPath = Request.QueryString("aspxerrorpath") 
	ASPXPath = ASPXPath.Replace("aspx", "html").replace("-", "+")
%>
<html>
<body>
	<h3>Please wait, your content has moved</h3>
	
	<script>
		window.location='<%=ASPXPath%>';
	</script>
</body>
</html>

Old URL:
http://www.devclarity.com/blog/post/topic.aspx

New URL:
http://www.devclarity.com/blog/post/topic.html

RewriteRule ^blog/post/([\w-\+]+)\.html$ /index.php?s=$1 [R=permanent,L]

Result

http://www.devclarity.com/blog/post/Backup-Mover.aspx now takes you to the remapped Backup Mover page on the Wordpress site.

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• How do I add content to my website?
• Should I upload files as ASCII or binary?
• What FTP software should I use?
• What are the FTP settings for my website?
• Why can’t I connect to my website via FTP?
• Does the FTP service support restarts/continuations?

You may have noticed devclarity.com has a new look.  This is still a work in progress so if you see a pile of dirt somewhere, just walk around it for now.

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