Brand new improved weather feed
Published on August 2, 2007 By Dr W - Fences Support In Docks
Good news ObjectDock fans, we've been hard at work with our partner AccuWeather, and a brand new reliable weather feed is nearing ready. 2-3 weeks away.

The new feed will be (1) as up to date as you can possibly get (2) very resilient about locations, you'll have a much much harder time getting your nearby location to not be found, especially international users who may have had trouble before. Also, no more having to type something in exactly for it to work (For example "United Kingdom" vs "UK" vs "England"...only 1 of the 3 used to work.) (3) fast. faster servers = better performance and higher reliability for all.

Major kutos for our partner AccuWeather for being so helpful getting the feed & location-lookup up and running!

I'm really looking forward to putting out the update, thanks for your patience as we've been improving our system over the last several months

-Jeff
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on Aug 02, 2007
hehe I imagined the whole post being read up by the professor in Futurama. "Good news everyone!"

aaaanyway... yes, this is great news. looking forward to the update.
on Aug 02, 2007
Can you improve the weather itself as well?
on Aug 02, 2007
I'd like a weather improvement too please, its a tad muggy here   

Great news about the actual weather you referred to as well   
on Aug 02, 2007
Can you improve the weather itself as well?


Ya sure, but you'll have to be patient and wait resources are scarce right now. When the weather finally gets nice again, I'll send you my bill.   
on Aug 02, 2007
Please add support for country Serbia. Beograd (Belgrade) or Novi Sad cities. Many thanks
on Aug 02, 2007
on Aug 02, 2007
Neil & BigDogBigFeet: Ha ha!

Good feature tips guys i'll make sure to make note in thee 'ol "todo" log....

haha
on Aug 03, 2007
Good news to hear!
on Aug 03, 2007
Great news JMB,looking forward to seeing it on my dock again.  
on Aug 03, 2007
wonderful to hear of this ongoing research,developement + troubleshooting of the worthwhile Objectdock app that has that on/off annoying weather update bug....will be cool to be able to truly trust one's eyes again w the pop-up five day forecast + daily/hourly reading once more + not have to check it against the DX version for accuracy
on Aug 05, 2007
Despite earlier problems, my docklet has been finding my weather (Sydney) properly for a couple of weeks now; however, the flyout forecast is now displaced by two days; ie it's now monday, but the flyout runs "today","tomorrow","monday","tuesday","wednesday". The current weather & temp in the main docklet are correct, though.

Any chance this will be fixed, or is it just me?
on Aug 05, 2007
Any chance this will be fixed, or is it just me?


I think this is happening for everyone. Hoping this is one of the issues that will be addressed.
on Aug 27, 2007
Any idea what the new locations will be? Kinda sucks to only have the capital as an option.
on Aug 27, 2007
number of new locations available = ridiculous basically, if you can get it on accuweather.com, you'll now be able to get it in ObjectDock. Fully searchable too, so just type in part of what you're looking for and it'll bring up a list of matches for you to pick from.
on Sep 01, 2007
weather.com has a lot more locations available. For instance, for Slovenia, accuweather only has the capital available, but weather.com even has my little town. Would it be possible to include an .ini file or something, where you input your own weather feed url?
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