I’ve updated phpBuoy to version 1.0.4. This takes account of some changes NOAA made to the formatting of their data. Everything should be hunky-dory now. Enjoy!
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Category Archives: Surfing
phpBuoy 1.0.3 released
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
phpBuoy 1.0.3 has been released. I fixed the link to NOAA realtime HTTP data source to reflect new “../realtime2/” address. Have fun!
A Perfect Day
Thursday, December 18, 2003
I’m on winter break from grad school and have just been totally goofing off. Surfing in the morning, flying or building R/C gliders in the afternoon. I took the camera along the other day and when I was reviewing the photos I realized that I’d just documented a literal “perfect day.” So, for your enjoyment: [...]
Bethany Hamilton
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
[img]http://www.stevelange.net/images/bethany_hamilton.jpg[/img] Anyone can sympathize with the plight of [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/04/national/04SURF.html?ex=1383368400&en=7a9048a7d472df13&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND]Bethany Hamilton[/url], the Kauai girl who lost her arm last week to a shark while surfing the north shore of her home island. As a surfer myself, the thought of a debilitating injury that could inhibit my ability to surf is one of the most unappealing things [...]
phpBuoy 1.0.1 released
Thursday, February 20, 2003
I made some minor tweaks to [url=http://www.surfimplement.com/phpBuoy]phpBuoy’s[/url] wind direction parser, so now it’s got a finer-grained degrees-to-compass-direction conversion (i.e. W, WNW, NW, NNW, N) than before. Should be the same as what’s listed by the [url=http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov]NDBC[/url] now. Dig it!
phpBuoy 1.0.0 Released
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
I wrote what became [url=http://www.surfimplement.com/phpBuoy/]phpBuoy [/url] because a friend of mine, when questioned about what could be improved about [url=http://www.surfimplement.com]Santa Barbara Surf Implement[/url], said that I should include the buoy data for the most relevant (to Santa Barbara) offshore buoys. I mulled over it for a long time, not really sure whether I wanted to [...]
Surf Movie Report – “Scratching The Surface”
Thursday, February 6, 2003
Just wanted to give a quick report about a cool surf movie premier I went to last night at Victoria Hall here in Santa Barbara, CA. The name of the movie is “Scratching The Surface”, and it was written, directed and produced by local SB resident Seth Brayer. The film was premiered as part of [...]
Miki Dora dies at age 67
Friday, January 4, 2002
To those of you who don’t know, Miki Dora has been largely considered one of the best surfers of all time. He died of pancreatic cancer yesterday. Surfline.com has more details: [URL]http://www.surfline.com/sw/content/mag/pulse/2001/dec/01_04_dora.jsp[/URL] Nobody, and I mean nobody, has ridden Malibu better, before or since. The King is dead. Long live the King!
Even More Santa Barbara Surf Implement Updates
Saturday, December 15, 2001
Cool, so I built this PHP-driven HTML form to allow users to input surf reports into the SBSI database. In addition, the script sends a copy of the report to the user’s email address and to the alt.surfing and alt.surfing.longboard newsgroups. Pretty bitchin’, if I might say so myself…and the ultimate in slack efficiency. w00t! [...]
More Santa Barbara Surf Impement Updates
Friday, December 14, 2001
I’m moving my archive of old surf reports onto a MySQL database and am in the process of building a PHP-driven interface for viewing them. Should be pretty cool once it’s done. Currently the archive has about 70 reports, with more being added on a “as much as I can surf and report” basis.