Re: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information
Perhaps I missed it... found current and previous conditions, but no forecast. Jim On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Bruce Tong wrote: NOAA has international forecasts... http://weather.noaa.gov/international.html ... but I don't know if they're available via NOAA's web services, or if international persons would consider them accurate. Are there international government organizations similar to the US National Weather Service? On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jonathan Markow jjmar...@jasig.org wrote: Unfortunately, if it's not international-friendly, then it's not really viable for Jasig... -Jonathan On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Domazlicky, Eric edomazli...@tacomacc.edu wrote: This isn't a very international-friendly suggestion, but I for one would advocate using the National Digital Forecast Database Web Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml/ Of course this only covers the United States, but this seems like a viable non-commercial option. From: bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu [mailto:bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Parker Grimes Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:16 AM To: uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org Subject: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information I just got off the phone with a representative from Accuweather. They were generous enough to setup a weather feed specifically for the uPortal community and that feed has driven the Weather Portlet that is bundled with uPortal. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone outside higher ed has gotten a hold of the the uPortal weather feed and has been using it in a mobile phone app. They have seen a huge spike in traffic on the uportal feed which violates the terms of use that we were given. They will be shutting it down immediately. Before you get too upset, they reserved the right in their terms of use (that is included in the Weather Portlet source distribution) to discontinue the feed if they deemed necessary. With that said, they still want to provide a data feed for the uPortal community. We will just have to go about things differently. We can no longer publish the data feed url in a publicly available place. I haven't quite figured out how that will be accomplished and I am open to ideas. Parker Grimes Programmer Analyst Supervisor Information Technology Department Southern Utah University -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: edomazli...@tacomacc.edu 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: jjmar...@jasig.org 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: zzt...@gmail.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Bruce Tong Software Engineer Office of Information Technology Ohio University -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: jftho...@wisc.edu 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: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
RE: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information
This isn't a very international-friendly suggestion, but I for one would advocate using the National Digital Forecast Database Web Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml/ Of course this only covers the United States, but this seems like a viable non-commercial option. From: bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu [mailto:bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Parker Grimes Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:16 AM To: uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org Subject: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information I just got off the phone with a representative from Accuweather. They were generous enough to setup a weather feed specifically for the uPortal community and that feed has driven the Weather Portlet that is bundled with uPortal. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone outside higher ed has gotten a hold of the the uPortal weather feed and has been using it in a mobile phone app. They have seen a huge spike in traffic on the uportal feed which violates the terms of use that we were given. They will be shutting it down immediately. Before you get too upset, they reserved the right in their terms of use (that is included in the Weather Portlet source distribution) to discontinue the feed if they deemed necessary. With that said, they still want to provide a data feed for the uPortal community. We will just have to go about things differently. We can no longer publish the data feed url in a publicly available place. I haven't quite figured out how that will be accomplished and I am open to ideas. Parker Grimes Programmer Analyst Supervisor Information Technology Department Southern Utah University -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: edomazli...@tacomacc.edu 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: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information
Unfortunately, if it's not international-friendly, then it's not really viable for Jasig... -Jonathan On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Domazlicky, Eric edomazli...@tacomacc.eduwrote: This isn't a very international-friendly suggestion, but I for one would advocate using the National Digital Forecast Database Web Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml/ Of course this only covers the United States, but this seems like a viable non-commercial option. *From:* bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu [mailto: bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu] *On Behalf Of *Parker Grimes *Sent:* Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:16 AM *To:* uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org *Subject:* [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information I just got off the phone with a representative from Accuweather. They were generous enough to setup a weather feed specifically for the uPortal community and that feed has driven the Weather Portlet that is bundled with uPortal. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone outside higher ed has gotten a hold of the the uPortal weather feed and has been using it in a mobile phone app. They have seen a huge spike in traffic on the uportal feed which violates the terms of use that we were given. They will be shutting it down immediately. Before you get too upset, they reserved the right in their terms of use (that is included in the Weather Portlet source distribution) to discontinue the feed if they deemed necessary. With that said, they still want to provide a data feed for the uPortal community. We will just have to go about things differently. We can no longer publish the data feed url in a publicly available place. I haven't quite figured out how that will be accomplished and I am open to ideas. Parker Grimes Programmer Analyst Supervisor Information Technology Department Southern Utah University -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: edomazli...@tacomacc.edu 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: jjmar...@jasig.org 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: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information
FWIW we wrote our own weather portlet using a feed from worldweatheronline.com, and it uses individual API keys. I think this approach is best as has been mentioned before, it's impossible to hide URLs or credentials in open source code. Can Accuweather reinstate the feed until an appropriate solution is brought to bear? cheers, Steve On 11/11/2010, at 8:52 AM, Jonathan Markow wrote: Unfortunately, if it's not international-friendly, then it's not really viable for Jasig... -Jonathan On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Domazlicky, Eric edomazli...@tacomacc.edu wrote: This isn't a very international-friendly suggestion, but I for one would advocate using the National Digital Forecast Database Web Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml/ Of course this only covers the United States, but this seems like a viable non-commercial option. From: bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu [mailto:bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Parker Grimes Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:16 AM To: uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org Subject: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information I just got off the phone with a representative from Accuweather. They were generous enough to setup a weather feed specifically for the uPortal community and that feed has driven the Weather Portlet that is bundled with uPortal. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone outside higher ed has gotten a hold of the the uPortal weather feed and has been using it in a mobile phone app. They have seen a huge spike in traffic on the uportal feed which violates the terms of use that we were given. They will be shutting it down immediately. Before you get too upset, they reserved the right in their terms of use (that is included in the Weather Portlet source distribution) to discontinue the feed if they deemed necessary. With that said, they still want to provide a data feed for the uPortal community. We will just have to go about things differently. We can no longer publish the data feed url in a publicly available place. I haven't quite figured out how that will be accomplished and I am open to ideas. Parker Grimes Programmer Analyst Supervisor Information Technology Department Southern Utah University -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: edomazli...@tacomacc.edu 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: jjmar...@jasig.org 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: steve.swinsb...@gmail.com 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: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
