Display Inshore forecast from BOM for digital signage or website
the Following code will go grab the xml for the Darwin Harbour inshore forecast from BOM and save it to disk as a htm and txt file. The idea is run it once as a cron job - then just call the txt or htm file to display it for hte rest of the day
OBS Scoreboards
Based on Scroreboard Plus by ha0511kr with help from XxRockeshotxX & Sickmind33. I have re writern this software twice. Once for Rugby once for Sailing. Principally team racing. This is a page to link to the Source Code and the .....
Autohotkey, Launch Vivaldi or bring to front.
Vivaldi browser sets the title of the window to the open tab website, which makes is slightly harder to write an Autohotkey script that launches it if not open, or switches too it if it is. Since I've gone to the effort of working out how to find the .....
How to Make a mobile version of a website
I've been working on a mobile version of this website, much of it was remakably simple. Step One Wheat from Chaff. Firstly we need to detect mobile browsers, now all browsers Idetify themsleves to the website, and the web is a wash with huge .....
bytes_readable
Simple PHP fucntion that turns a number in octets (normal 8 bit bytes) into a human readable number for convenient display. Works well with the numbers from a radius accounting table, originally written for piertopier.net USAGE just go: .....
Shipping Forcast Parser
Parses the Shipping Forecast, and retrieves only a specific area. + optionally the header "Issued by the Met Office at ****. WARNING NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION. this is a gimmick and no substitute for a Properly sourced forecast. it may expire if .....