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My first project as a web developer

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YoursAndMind
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Over the last two months I have been teaching myself how to program using the language Ruby. While its been nice just doing tutorials and stuff online, this week I set my mind to actually trying to build something and put it online.

So...... I give you, Clearli, a simple weather app that geocodes your IP and tells you the weather in a couple easy to understand sentences. The biggest difference between my app and other weather apps is that Clearli tells you the weather in relation to the weather for the previous day.

I've still got to register a domain name but, feel free to check it out, use it whenever, and feedback is appreciated!


Apr 9 2013 6:34PM
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c-fries
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It works for me but...........what if yesterday, I wasn't where I am today. I'd be lost!!!!!

Definitely an original idea though.
Apr 9 2013 6:40PM
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YoursAndMind
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hah very true, my next iteration will have the option to search for a location as well as just ahve it check where you are. Thanks tho
Apr 9 2013 6:43PM
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ParryWithAnEh
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Love it! I like the overall design but the only thing that bothers me is that it doesn't tell me the actual weather. Other than that great concept and best of luck with your programming. I've been wanting to learn but never got the hang of it.
Apr 9 2013 6:44PM
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1337
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needs more padding up top, it was cutting off the text for my browser
Apr 9 2013 6:46PM
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YoursAndMind
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Thanks man, yeah not so much as a weather forecast as a quick reference for current conditions. But really just focusing on having some sort of project that will help me learn but is also kind of cool and unique
Apr 9 2013 6:48PM
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[hamnuts]
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Is this Waterdown, Ontario?
Apr 9 2013 6:50PM
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YoursAndMind
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hmmm yeah I'm going to ahve to look into that. Pretty much right now its telling people the difference in temperature (in celsius) followed by either warmer or colder and a few different scales of windiness. Then it looks at the difference in cloud cover between today and yesterday and have a few different statements based on the difference in cloud cover. So... hopefully if its saying its beautiful its sunny where you are and yesterday it was cloudy?
Apr 9 2013 6:55PM
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Parrish
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I was confused why it was only 1 degree warmer, since it was cold as fuck yesterday and what seems like much warmer today,

I guess cause im used to F and its in C
Apr 9 2013 6:58PM
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ParryWithAnEh
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Best of luck with your future projects!
Also this would do a great Android widget, you could maybe look into that.
Apr 9 2013 7:02PM
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YoursAndMind
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should be better now
Apr 9 2013 7:25PM
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paige.
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My worry is that it gave me the weather for Edmonton despite my being in Calgary. The 300km makes a pretty big difference as far as temperature/general weather goes.
Apr 9 2013 7:41PM
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YoursAndMind
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I'll have to check that, the same thing happened to one of my fiends. I think it has something to do with the fact that it's checking your IP which may be routed through another place? It might end up easier to have the user input their address the 1st time and then just have it saved after that
Apr 9 2013 7:48PM
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RimJobber
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It says weather for vista on mine.
I live in Reno, and there isn't a vista anywhere near me.
Apr 9 2013 7:57PM
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theBearJew
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Very cool. You should add something that says "in a few hours it will be _______" easy to understand and follows the simplicity of your website.
Apr 9 2013 10:35PM
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YoursAndMind
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yeah I like that, like "in a few hour it'll be 3 degrees warmer" or whatever
Apr 10 2013 12:25AM
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YoursAndMind
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feature added
Apr 10 2013 12:17PM
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