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Technology Hall Of Fame
The Programs That Make This Possible
WW2010 depends on a variety of software packages and technology, some
developed here, and much by the work of countless others. Although we
can't officially/commercially endorse any of these products, here are
a few of the more significant ones that we'd gratefully like to acknowledge:
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Roxen
from
Informations Vävarna (Infovav)
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Roxen Challenger from Infovav is WWW server at the heart of
WW2010. We've been with this server since the early days of Spinner
(Roxen's predecessor). We considered a number of other servers for
this project ranging from the simplest free ones to some expensive
well known commercial ones, but none other had the unique combination
of power, flexibility, extensibilty and innovative approaches that
Roxen offered. Right out of the box (so to speak) it came the closest
to what we needed and was easy enough to extend with a few hundred
lines of Pike (their unique programming language) to do what we
wanted.
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AutoTree
from TDP Software (UIUC-DAS)
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AutoTree is in-house software developed for the
WW2010 project and is responsible for automatically generating and
maintaining the ever present menu/navigation system that you see on the
left of each page. It also handles other navigational aspects as well as page
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MySQL
from
T.c.X DataKonsult AB
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MySQL, written by Michael Widenius at TCX DataKonsolt AB, is a powerful
mostly free SQL engine, rapidly gaining popularity amongst web application
developers around the world. Autotree (see above) employs MySQL to store
all navigation information and page text. We've found it to be
very fast and powerful.
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WXP
from
Dan Vietor
Purdue University
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Some of the maps and images that appear as examples in the online guides
(not including current weather products) were partly produced by
Dan Vietor's famous Weather Processor package (WXP) version 5.0. Few
of us in the atmospheric sciences academic community could live
without this fine piece of software.
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GD1.2
and
GD.pm
from
Boutell.Com and
Lincoln D. Stein
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written by Thomas Boutell (originally at the Quest Protein Database
Center). It along with
GD.pm (the Perl interface to GD written by
Lincoln D. Stein) help out with GIF creation/modification
throughout the server.
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Perl
by Larry Wall
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Perl (in all of its many features and extensions) is used heavily
throughout to run things behind the scenes. This very text passed
through a Perl buffer someplace recently. Co-developer, David Wojtowicz,
thinks its just the greatest. Some may sneer, but we think our results
speak for themselves.
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Adobe Photoshop
from
Adobe
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Where would we be without Adobe Photoshop. Nearly all the cool
non-weather-product graphics on this site were produced with this
very powerful package. Co-developer, Steve Hall, can make it do
nearly anything with pixels.
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Others:
- Xiaolin Wu, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Western Ontario, London Ontario -- for fast color quantization code
There are, of course, many other useful software packages that went into
the creation of WW2010. We will endeavor to list them here as we
think of them
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