WeatherCat

Jan 22 2012

Call For Beta Testers

The v0.80 build continues to run fine, but more importantly we now have the infrastructure set-up in order to begin beta testing 🙂

As such we are now looking for 5 to 10 beta testers for a private beta test. We’re looking to run WeatherCat on a range of hardware and equipment for this test, so if you’d like to take part, here’s what you need to do:

Drop an email to weathercat_dev@trixology.com detailing your weather station hardware, Macintosh model, OS version, what weather software you are currently running and anything else you think is relevant. There’s no rush here, this is engineering, not a lucky-dip – what we need is plain hard data so as to be able to decide who to accept into the initial testing. Having said that, the cut-off date is Friday 27th Jan.

You need to know that WeatherCat currently supports the following hardware:

• Davis Vantage range – USB/Serial or IP data-loggers.
• Davis Vue – USB/Serial or IP data-loggers.
• Davis Monitor/Wizard
• LaCrosse WS23xx models
• OS WMR 928/968

To run WeatherCat you will need a Mac running 10.5 or later (PowerPC or Intel) with a minimum of 1GB of RAM.

If you don’t own one of these stations, or your Mac doesn’t buy propecia no prescription meet the minimum requirements, please do not apply.

In return, if accepted, you’ll get to run the coolest weather software available for the Mac before anybody else in the world (chicks will dig you!*), you’ll receive my undying gratitude (meow!), and as if that wasn’t enough, you’ll get a free license for WeatherCat version 1 (assuming you provide feedback during the test and don’t drop out).

You also need to know that:

1. We will not reply to your email – if accepted into the private  beta test you’ll receive an email sometime after Friday with a link to the testing area and download.
2. If accepted, the first rule of WeatherCat private testing is that you don’t talk about WeatherCat private testing. (You didn’t really just say that, did you? -Ed). If you do blab, we’ll send Blacky around (and possibly our lawyers).
3. You can drop out of the testing at any time – there’s no obligation on your part.

Finally, if you maintained an LWC localisation and would like to continue that work in WeatherCat we’d totally like to hear from you 🙂

Good luck!

Meg out.

*I lied –  they won’t. Trust me.

By Trixology • WeatherCat •

Jan 22 2012

We Have A Go!

Earlier today, after a nice breakfast and some last minute testing  we reached version 0.8! We have a go for release to beta!

Meg out.

By admin • WeatherCat •

Jan 17 2012

Version 0.7 Further Update

Through skillfully moving things onto the to-do list and straight graft, we are down to two, maybe three items left to complete before we can start testing.

More updates will follow as things progress…

By admin • WeatherCat •

Jan 8 2012

V0.7 Progress Report

Aarrggh; I’ve left too many small things to do! I should have done some of these already – this is stuff like being able to set the CWOP ID or mailing out the monthly report. I have no idea why it isn’t emailed out – what was I thinking? It would have been much easier to do it when the feature went in instead of leaving it to a later phase; the report is saved at the end of the month, but there’s no message sent to get it emailed out – d’oh!

On the plus side, a lot of these are trivial in terms of coding, but the testing can take an order of magnitude mentalhealthdrugs.com longer and it’s not until the end of January I’ll know if the monthly report gets emailed out for real.

Looking through the 0.7 todo list here I can see 39 items; I thought it was about 20 🙁

I’ll have to cut some of them out of this release and move them to v1.1 or later.

On-time, high quality and all planned features – pick any two. We tend to go for on-time and high quality every time.

Oh well, onwards…

By Trixology • WeatherCat •

Jan 5 2012

V0.6 Update

Version 0.6 continues to run fine – if you were watching yesterday you may have seen the data at Wunderground off-line for most of the day. This was a switch failure here; WeatherCat had no connectivity at all from about 08:30 until 16:00. It coped with it well and came back on-line when it regained access to the Internet.

An unexpected test, but a good result!

By Trixology • WeatherCat •