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mothra
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Thursday May 02, 2002

09:36 AM

[ #4606 ]

I love getting the chance to use for()'s on scalars when they make sense. For example, it was nice to be able to do this:

for ($wind_dir) { s/north/N/ig; s/south/S/ig; s/west/W/ig; s/east/E/ig; }

in my tooltip weather reporting program. Oh, the little things...

Two problems yet remain though:

A non-wheel-reinvention compliant and intelligent way of converting the UTC time of the report to the local time of the weather station whose report is being viewed. By "intelligent" I simply mean I don't want the user to even notice that I magically converted UTC to their local time; it should just Do The Right Thing.
Making a system-tray-icon-only application out of it all, whose tooltip is -- wouldn't you know -- the current weather.

Win32::GUI isn't the easiest thing in the world when you're unfamiliar with it.

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