About a third of the way into Hacker School, I got myself entrenched in a rather unusual project—trying to figure out how to get an automatically updated weather icon into my Bash prompt, doing it purely in Bash for practical (and aesthetic) reasons.

I called it BashWeather.

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While working with Robert on the Doorbot webserver as part of our project to hook up the front door of Hacker School to the web, we ran across a small problem with the Ruby server that he had set up.

In the past, my sites have always been hosted places ...

As part of my quest to finish packaging up my Bash function that gets the updated weather in your Bash prompt, I needed to better organize my code, and so started putting some code into functions. Bash, however, is a fickle language, and the difficulty that quickly arose was using ...