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15 years 9 months ago #70330 by Frank Ryan
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Dave,
well done on creating a very useful prog.
I cant think of any other way to improve it really.
As far as I'm concerend all that code writing stuff is
black magic.

Oh,
and apparently I'm a Dub also!

:?

Shannon,... SHA...NNon,,,,
SHHHAAA,,,
ah forget it,,
'computer says no'

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15 years 9 months ago #70337 by DaveGrennan
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Another addition;

This time a calculator for the local rise/set of the moon and azimuths of same.

webtreatz.com/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,85/

Feedback once again appreciated.

I have discovered an issue though. Its to do with UT versus local time. e.g. when a time is calculated as 23:00 (for example) and daylight saving is on the time is displayed as 24:00. It gets worse if you are in a timezone like +3hrs when it will then show as 27:00. I will fix that tomorrow so it shows in the next day as it should.

Regards and Clear Skies,

Dave.
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15 years 9 months ago #70338 by DaveGrennan
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and apparently I'm a Dub also!


Howerya wacker! yer rekkin' me buzz, bud!

It seems that many IP addresses in this country are registered to Dublin. Until the powers that be sort this out you remain Wacker Ryan Jr!!

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15 years 9 months ago #70341 by michaeloconnell
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Just an idea Dave:
Would it be possible to make these programs into java-based applets and suitable to upload onto a mobile phone?

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15 years 9 months ago #70342 by michael_murphy
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I'll try the 3G connection later and see if it works.


That will be interesting. I would expect the location it gives will be the location of the base station of your service provider.


Hi Dave,

I gave it a go and as you suspect the app still says Dublin.

Michael.

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15 years 9 months ago #70360 by DaveGrennan
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Just an idea Dave:
Would it be possible to make these programs into java-based applets and suitable to upload onto a mobile phone?


At some point down the road yes, but they would need to be completely re-written. Many of these routines started life about 10 years ago as a VB application. Recently I began porting them to php to use as the web apps you see here. Porting them again to java would definitely be possible, but I still have a lot more to do with the web apps. I'm particularly interested in writing routines for satellites such as the ISS etc.

So the short answer is yes but not anytime soon.

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