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Making a web app in one hour is easy and awesome

by johndavidbackon 3/20/2015, 2:56:26 PM with 5 comments

by pstadleron 3/20/2015, 3:25:57 PM
One more hour can't hurt: http://caniwearshorts.today/?location=Z%C3%BCrich%2C+Switzer...
by johndavidbackon 3/20/2015, 3:10:14 PM
Here's the source if anyone is interested: https://github.com/johndavidback/can-i-wear-shorts
by plugon 3/20/2015, 4:05:15 PM
Your settings are showing... Don't forget to change your secret key if this is the one you've deployed:
https://github.com/johndavidback/can-i-wear-shorts/blob/mast...
Neat site though :) You could "maybe" wear shorts here (Cork, Ireland) today, it's not warm but sunny. A Celsius option would be nice btw
by dlisboaon 3/20/2015, 5:24:37 PM
You got encoding errors on non-ASCII cities:
http://caniwearshorts.today/?location=s%C3%A3o+paulo
```
    UnicodeEncodeError at /
    'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe3' in position 105: ordinal not in range(128)
```
by loco5nineron 3/20/2015, 8:34:15 PM
But not one that's particularly useful... http://caniwearshorts.today/?location=Gresham%2C+OR%2C+USA