Tag Archive 'API'
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 [...]
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, [...]
Posted by KosherJava on 07 Feb 2008 - א׳ אדר א' תשס״ח | Filed under: Software Dev, Zmanim
As hinted at in my previous post , there is a new project underway that uses the Zmanim API in a way that I had never really imagined. Using the Smack API, Michael Kopinsky created the ZmanimBot that allows getting zmanim by instant messaging the ZmanimBot, an internet bot. It currently supports the Google Talk [...]
Posted by KosherJava on 07 Feb 2008 - א׳ אדר א' תשס״ח | Filed under: Software Dev, Zmanim
In December when developing the Zmanim/Bearing to Yerushalayim map (blog post), I noticed a problem with the code used to generate zmanim. The API returns a Java Date object. Usually only the time is of interest, and the date is ignored, but in some cases (when a timezone offset is specified without using the Olson [...]
Posted by KosherJava on 08 Feb 2007 - כ׳ שבט תשס״ז | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim
The Java version on the server was just updated to JDK 5.0 Update 11 and now supports the US 2007 DST Changes mentioned in the previous post. This means that Excel zmanim calendars generated by this site will have the proper daylight savings time for zmanim.
Posted by KosherJava on 28 May 2006 - א׳ סיון תשס״ו | Filed under: Software Dev, Zmanim
The first phase of change to allow easier porting to other languages took place with the change in the API from using inheritance of the Java Calendar classes, to one that uses composition. This will make porting it to other languages easier. Included in the update are a number of new zmanim, mostly the addition [...]
Posted by KosherJava on 26 Jan 2006 - כ״ו טבת תשס״ו | Filed under: Software Dev, Zmanim
The Zmanim Calendar Generator now has a simple way to look up longitude and latitude information using the Google Maps API. To use this feature, click on the Google Maps icon to display the map (location centered on Bais Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood), find the location that you want to generate zmanim for, and click [...]
Posted by KosherJava on 27 Jul 2005 - כ׳ תמוז תשס״ה | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim
I slightly updated the Zmanim Calendar Generator to add some user input validation. Looking at the logs, I noticed that someone generated a calendar with the longitude and latitude of Lakewood, NJ (the default), with just the location label changed to Minneapolis, MN. I don’t know if the user was just testing, or just assumed [...]
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