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Zmanim API 1.2.1 Released

Posted by KosherJava on 30 May 2010 - י״ז סיון תש״ע | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The Zmanim API 1.2.1 was released today. Changed in this release were the addition of a few very early Tzais zmanim, and the removal of references to the GregorianCalendar in favor of the base Calendar class to ease Noah Blumenthal’s use of the Zmanim API in a zmanim application for the BlackBerry. This change has [...]

Bearing to Yerushalayim and Zmanim Map 2.0

Posted by KosherJava on 14 Mar 2010 - כ״ח אדר תש״ע | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The availability of the Bearing to Yerushalayim and Zmanim Map was originally announced on December 30, 2007. At the time there were a number of bugs related to the Google Map API. These bugs were reported to Google and eventually fixed. Since that time, the only change was a minor JavaScript fix for IE. The [...]

Zmanim API 1.2 Released

Posted by KosherJava on 24 Jan 2010 - ט׳ שבט תש״ע | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The Zmanim API 1.2 was released today. The only change in this release is the removal of elevation as a factor in the calculation of all zmanim besides sunrise and sunset. Updated JavaDocs now reflect these changes. Please see the Elevation Now Only Impacts Sunrise and Sunset Calculations in the Zmanim API post for additional [...]

Plans for a Zmanim API FAQ

Posted by KosherJava on 05 Nov 2009 - י״ח חשון תש״ע | Filed under: Site News, Zmanim

Questions communicated to me via the contact page far exceed the number of comments in the blog. In the hope of clarifying the most common questions related to the Zmanim API and to a lesser degree other parts of this site, I plan on a series of FAQ posts that will hopefully cut down on [...]

Zmanim Calendar Generator Can Now Output Fewer Zmanim

Posted by KosherJava on 18 May 2009 - כ״ד אייר תשס״ט | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

After numerous requests, the Zmanim Calendar Generator can now output a less extensive list of zmanim. While the “full” calendar option (the default) generates an Excel spreadsheet with 108 columns of zmanim, the “standard” output generates a spreadsheet with 15 columns containing the most commonly used zmanim. The exact list of what constitutes commonly used [...]

Zmanim API 1.1 Released

Posted by KosherJava on 27 Mar 2009 - ב׳ ניסן תשס״ט | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The Zmanim API 1.1 was released early this morning. Information about what changed in this release can be seen in previous posts about various beta and patch releases. A last minute change involved the removal of the misheyakir calculations commonly used by the Syrian community. The removal was due to the various different minhagim used, [...]

Zmanim API 1.1 Beta 3 Released

Posted by KosherJava on 25 Feb 2009 - א׳ אדר תשס״ט | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The third beta release of the Zmanim API 1.1 is now available on the download page. The main change in this release is the addition of zmanim based on the psak of Chacham Yosef Harari-Raful of Yeshivat Ateret Torah. These zmanim were requested by members of the Syrian Community. Other changes in this release include [...]

Zmanim Clock Applet Alpha Release

Posted by KosherJava on 18 Nov 2007 - ח׳ כסלו תשס״ח | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

A while ago, Dr. Irv Bromberg mentioned to me, that my Zmanim API was in use in the Astronomical Clock Applet created by Ali Adams. The applet was a modification to Antony Pranata’s clock applet that displayed Islamic prayer times. Apparently the Zmanim API was so flexible that without any modification it was able to [...]

Zmanim Calendar Generator Back Up (With Proper DST Rules)

Posted by KosherJava on 06 Nov 2007 - כ״ה חשון תשס״ח | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The Zmanim Calendar Generator has been back up for about 2 weeks, but due to a downgrade in the Java version used, the DST issue that was as mentioned as fixed in a previous post returned. This has now been fixed using the Timezone Updater Tool. Please let me know if you run into any [...]

Zmanim Calendar Generator Temporarily Down

Posted by KosherJava on 03 Aug 2007 - י״ט אב תשס״ז | Filed under: Site News, Zmanim

The Zmanim Calendar Generator is temporarily out of commission due to technical issues being experienced by my web hosting company. My web hosting company was bought out and the new company experienced technical issues in the migration, including Java issues that affect the calendar generation. They have no ETA for a fix.

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