Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
Thanks a lot Jen, I'll take a look at it this weekend! On Feb 15, 2008 9:20 AM, Jen Bourey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've mavenized our code and dropped it into https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/WeatherPortlet/branches/yale-yahoo. It's not very well commented, but it should build and run under both up2.6and 3, and I'm more than happy to answer any questions that come up. If any of it proves useful as an example or otherwise, that's great, and if not, that's OK too. I've enjoyed using jaxb and I think I'd encourage it's use with AccuWeather. I did strip out the part that generates the current conditions tooltip, since other people may be using a different version of dojo in the portal, or might not be using dojo at all. - Jen On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Dustin S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jen, Is the the source of your portlet available anywhere? Would you mind committing it to a branch in /sandbox/WeatherPortlet ...? I'm sure this could be useful for development. Thanks, Dustin. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Jen Bourey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks fantastic! At Yale we have a Spring PortletMVC weather portlet that uses JAXB to unmarshall the Yahoo weather service feeds, then displays the data in a JSP page. I wanted to use the XML data rather that just display the html in the RSS feed, since it would give us better control over the presentation, as well as the ability to display more data. We've been pretty happy with that approach so far, but Yahoo doesn't provide a good way to get locations for international locations, and I know AccuWeather has access to even more data. I think it would be pretty simple to use a similar approach to display the data from the AccuWeather service if we wanted. Screenshots of the current Yale portlet are here: http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/YIP/Weather+Portlet. - Jen -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
Eric mentioned in IRC today that he's had a lot of luck with the xstream libraries - we could also try that. - Jen On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Dustin S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot Jen, I'll take a look at it this weekend! On Feb 15, 2008 9:20 AM, Jen Bourey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've mavenized our code and dropped it into https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/WeatherPortlet/branches/yale-yahoo. It's not very well commented, but it should build and run under both up2.6 and 3, and I'm more than happy to answer any questions that come up. If any of it proves useful as an example or otherwise, that's great, and if not, that's OK too. I've enjoyed using jaxb and I think I'd encourage it's use with AccuWeather. I did strip out the part that generates the current conditions tooltip, since other people may be using a different version of dojo in the portal, or might not be using dojo at all. - Jen On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Dustin S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jen, Is the the source of your portlet available anywhere? Would you mind committing it to a branch in /sandbox/WeatherPortlet ...? I'm sure this could be useful for development. Thanks, Dustin. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Jen Bourey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks fantastic! At Yale we have a Spring PortletMVC weather portlet that uses JAXB to unmarshall the Yahoo weather service feeds, then displays the data in a JSP page. I wanted to use the XML data rather that just display the html in the RSS feed, since it would give us better control over the presentation, as well as the ability to display more data. We've been pretty happy with that approach so far, but Yahoo doesn't provide a good way to get locations for international locations, and I know AccuWeather has access to even more data. I think it would be pretty simple to use a similar approach to display the data from the AccuWeather service if we wanted. Screenshots of the current Yale portlet are here: http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/YIP/Weather+Portlet. - Jen -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 21:09 -0700, Dustin S. icedout3e-at-gmail.com | JASIG-List-2| wrote: My goal right now is to create the portlet to be as pluggable as possible. I kind of envision it boiling down to implementing one interface (WeatherDao), however I may run into some dependencies between the view and the implemented service. I came up with a rough design that is already sitting in the trunk (https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/WeatherPortlet/trunk/) but it is going to need some more adjusting I'm sure. I am entirely open to suggestions on a pluggable design if anyone has any! Hey Dustin, Looks like some services will require a link-back and a logo. Do think gitters/setters for the link hrefs and text should be included in the WeatherDao interface? Or should they just be wired in via spring manually, or some other way? thanks, Brad -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
This looks fantastic! At Yale we have a Spring PortletMVC weather portlet that uses JAXB to unmarshall the Yahoo weather service feeds, then displays the data in a JSP page. I wanted to use the XML data rather that just display the html in the RSS feed, since it would give us better control over the presentation, as well as the ability to display more data. We've been pretty happy with that approach so far, but Yahoo doesn't provide a good way to get locations for international locations, and I know AccuWeather has access to even more data. I think it would be pretty simple to use a similar approach to display the data from the AccuWeather service if we wanted. Screenshots of the current Yale portlet are here: http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/YIP/Weather+Portlet. - Jen On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Dustin S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jen, The data provided is far superior to any other service that I've seen, I was really impressed when I first saw it. The API for getting locations is *also really* nice IMO. You can see an example here: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/city-find.asp?location=london . The location string can take many types of values (zipcode, city, city and country). -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
Hello Jim H, I don't see the logo or back-link as a deal breaker either, but what size is the logo? Also, what do they consider commercial users? I know we consider Higher Ed as non-commercial, but do they? thanks, Brad On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 21:22 -0600, Jim Helwig jim.helwig-at-doit.wisc.edu |JASIG-List-2| wrote: I don't see a logo or link back as a problem. Since our primary focus is higher education, I don't see the fact that commercial users need to contact AccuWeather as a problem. From the sounds of it, this seems like a good option. It would be nice to see if this portlet could be implemented in a way that one could fairly easily plug in alternative weather feeds if they were concerned about this. My two cents, JimH on 2/13/2008 7:16 PM Dustin S. said the following: I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the possibility of using their services for weather data. AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can visit http://www.accuweather.com/ AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather portlet. An example: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo and link back. They would like any commercial users to contact AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said that commercial users are generally not a concern unless they are a large commercial user that could cause an overload to their servers. AccuWeather has /extensive/ international coverage of weather as well as /extensive /weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us. I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in UP3 hence the reason for this post. What does everyone else think? -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
I don't think this portlet should ship WITH uPortal. I'd hate to see the main uPortal distribution encumbered with a license we somehow have to make sure commercial entities see and agree to, and contact accuweather, before they can ever start uPortal. Now as a separate download that people can go to some place and 'read the license' for that specific portlet before clicking on the link to download it, I think it is probably fine. Cris J H Jim Helwig wrote: I don't see a logo or link back as a problem. Since our primary focus is higher education, I don't see the fact that commercial users need to contact AccuWeather as a problem. From the sounds of it, this seems like a good option. It would be nice to see if this portlet could be implemented in a way that one could fairly easily plug in alternative weather feeds if they were concerned about this. My two cents, JimH on 2/13/2008 7:16 PM Dustin S. said the following: I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the possibility of using their services for weather data. AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can visit http://www.accuweather.com/ AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather portlet. An example: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo and link back. They would like any commercial users to contact AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said that commercial users are generally not a concern unless they are a large commercial user that could cause an overload to their servers. AccuWeather has /extensive/ international coverage of weather as well as /extensive /weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us. I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in UP3 hence the reason for this post. What does everyone else think? -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
Brad, You have some good questions. I will write another email to AccuWeather and ask if they can explain their definition of commercial/non-commercial. They did provide me with a link to logo's to use ( http://www.accuweather.com/download-adc-logos.asp), however, I was not told of any size requirements so I will ask about that too. Thanks! I was thinking about adding properties String moreInfoLink and String logoPath to the Weather object and they could be set in the implementation of the WeatherDAO. This might require also passing in the PortletRequest object for dynamic paths. Dustin On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Brad Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 21:09 -0700, Dustin S. icedout3e-at-gmail.com | JASIG-List-2| wrote: My goal right now is to create the portlet to be as pluggable as possible. I kind of envision it boiling down to implementing one interface (WeatherDao), however I may run into some dependencies between the view and the implemented service. I came up with a rough design that is already sitting in the trunk (https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/WeatherPortlet/trunk/) but it is going to need some more adjusting I'm sure. I am entirely open to suggestions on a pluggable design if anyone has any! Hey Dustin, Looks like some services will require a link-back and a logo. Do think gitters/setters for the link hrefs and text should be included in the WeatherDao interface? Or should they just be wired in via spring manually, or some other way? thanks, Brad -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
Jen, Is the the source of your portlet available anywhere? Would you mind committing it to a branch in /sandbox/WeatherPortlet ...? I'm sure this could be useful for development. Thanks, Dustin. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Jen Bourey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks fantastic! At Yale we have a Spring PortletMVC weather portlet that uses JAXB to unmarshall the Yahoo weather service feeds, then displays the data in a JSP page. I wanted to use the XML data rather that just display the html in the RSS feed, since it would give us better control over the presentation, as well as the ability to display more data. We've been pretty happy with that approach so far, but Yahoo doesn't provide a good way to get locations for international locations, and I know AccuWeather has access to even more data. I think it would be pretty simple to use a similar approach to display the data from the AccuWeather service if we wanted. Screenshots of the current Yale portlet are here: http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/YIP/Weather+Portlet. - Jen On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Dustin S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jen, The data provided is far superior to any other service that I've seen, I was really impressed when I first saw it. The API for getting locations is *also really* nice IMO. You can see an example here: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/city-find.asp?location=london. The location string can take many types of values (zipcode, city, city and country). -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
Hi Dustin, At the moment the source is only in our local repository, but I'd be more than happy to contribute it. It might make sense to reorganize the files to use maven first, which shouldn't take long. - Jen On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Dustin S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jen, Is the the source of your portlet available anywhere? Would you mind committing it to a branch in /sandbox/WeatherPortlet ...? I'm sure this could be useful for development. Thanks, Dustin. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Jen Bourey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks fantastic! At Yale we have a Spring PortletMVC weather portlet that uses JAXB to unmarshall the Yahoo weather service feeds, then displays the data in a JSP page. I wanted to use the XML data rather that just display the html in the RSS feed, since it would give us better control over the presentation, as well as the ability to display more data. We've been pretty happy with that approach so far, but Yahoo doesn't provide a good way to get locations for international locations, and I know AccuWeather has access to even more data. I think it would be pretty simple to use a similar approach to display the data from the AccuWeather service if we wanted. Screenshots of the current Yale portlet are here: http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/YIP/Weather+Portlet. - Jen On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Dustin S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jen, The data provided is far superior to any other service that I've seen, I was really impressed when I first saw it. The API for getting locations is *also really* nice IMO. You can see an example here: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/city-find.asp?location=london. The location string can take many types of values (zipcode, city, city and country). -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the possibility of using their services for weather data. AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can visit http://www.accuweather.com/ AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather portlet. An example: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo and link back. They would like any commercial users to contact AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said that commercial users are generally not a concern unless they are a large commercial user that could cause an overload to their servers. AccuWeather has *extensive* international coverage of weather as well as *extensive *weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us. I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in UP3 hence the reason for this post. What does everyone else think? -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
A friend of mine recently began using their data for a google gadget and had great things to say about AccuWeather. He said the developers were very helpful and responsive. It sounds like they really do have a lot of data; he was using their service to get local pollen counts. How is the API for getting weather locations? Yahoo allows you to use zip codes, which is great for US locations, but their codes for international locations are difficult for users to figure out. AccuWeather sounds like a great choice to me, especially if we decide that the commercial issues will work out for us. - Jen On Feb 13, 2008 8:16 PM, Dustin S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the possibility of using their services for weather data. AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can visit http://www.accuweather.com/ AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather portlet. An example: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo and link back. They would like any commercial users to contact AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said that commercial users are generally not a concern unless they are a large commercial user that could cause an overload to their servers. AccuWeather has *extensive* international coverage of weather as well as *extensive *weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us. I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in UP3 hence the reason for this post. What does everyone else think? -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
I don't see a logo or link back as a problem. Since our primary focus is higher education, I don't see the fact that commercial users need to contact AccuWeather as a problem. From the sounds of it, this seems like a good option. It would be nice to see if this portlet could be implemented in a way that one could fairly easily plug in alternative weather feeds if they were concerned about this. My two cents, JimH on 2/13/2008 7:16 PM Dustin S. said the following: I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the possibility of using their services for weather data. AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can visit http://www.accuweather.com/ AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather portlet. An example: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo and link back. They would like any commercial users to contact AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said that commercial users are generally not a concern unless they are a large commercial user that could cause an overload to their servers. AccuWeather has /extensive/ international coverage of weather as well as /extensive /weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us. I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in UP3 hence the reason for this post. What does everyone else think? -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
I think this looks like a viable weather data source. The fact that we'd have our own feed url is a plus and we can make a point to include a little extra info in the default deploy of the portlet on how to contact them if you have heavy usage. -Eric Dustin S. wrote: I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the possibility of using their services for weather data. AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can visit http://www.accuweather.com/ AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather portlet. An example: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo and link back. They would like any commercial users to contact AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said that commercial users are generally not a concern unless they are a large commercial user that could cause an overload to their servers. AccuWeather has /extensive/ international coverage of weather as well as /extensive /weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us. I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in UP3 hence the reason for this post. What does everyone else think? -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [uportal-dev] Weather Portlet: AccuWeather.com Service
Jen, The data provided is far superior to any other service that I've seen, I was really impressed when I first saw it. The API for getting locations is *also really* nice IMO. You can see an example here: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/city-find.asp?location=london . The location string can take many types of values (zipcode, city, city and country). Jim, My goal right now is to create the portlet to be as pluggable as possible. I kind of envision it boiling down to implementing one interface (WeatherDao), however I may run into some dependencies between the view and the implemented service. I came up with a rough design that is already sitting in the trunk (https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/WeatherPortlet/trunk/) but it is going to need some more adjusting I'm sure. I am entirely open to suggestions on a pluggable design if anyone has any! On Feb 13, 2008 8:22 PM, Jim Helwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see a logo or link back as a problem. Since our primary focus is higher education, I don't see the fact that commercial users need to contact AccuWeather as a problem. From the sounds of it, this seems like a good option. It would be nice to see if this portlet could be implemented in a way that one could fairly easily plug in alternative weather feeds if they were concerned about this. My two cents, JimH on 2/13/2008 7:16 PM Dustin S. said the following: I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the possibility of using their services for weather data. AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can visit http://www.accuweather.com/ AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather portlet. An example: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803metric=1 Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo and link back. They would like any commercial users to contact AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said that commercial users are generally not a concern unless they are a large commercial user that could cause an overload to their servers. AccuWeather has /extensive/ international coverage of weather as well as /extensive /weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us. I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in UP3 hence the reason for this post. What does everyone else think? -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
