Comments on: Calendaring http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring Alex King, Denver Web Developer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:45:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: alexking.org: Blog > End-to-End Calendaring “Solution” http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30791 alexking.org: Blog > End-to-End Calendaring “Solution” Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:20:56 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30791 [...] My post asking for calendaring suggestions resulted in a lot of feedback, but no solutions that accomplished the goals I was looking for: [...] [...] My post asking for calendaring suggestions resulted in a lot of feedback, but no solutions that accomplished the goals I was looking for: [...]

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30649 Roy Schestowitz Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:53:58 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30649 Alex, I can export my Palm data to ical and then toss the file on some Webspace. PHP iCalendar is a viewer, but not an editor. It might suit you. Alex, I can export my Palm data to ical and then toss the file on some Webspace. PHP iCalendar is a viewer, but not an editor. It might suit you.

]]> By: kasjopeja http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30535 kasjopeja Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:46:26 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30535 Try http://www.google.com/calendar/ :) Cheers:) Try http://www.google.com/calendar/ :)
Cheers:)

]]> By: Alex http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30517 Alex Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:03:35 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30517 Roy - what about PHP iCalendar? Roy – what about PHP iCalendar?

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30510 Roy Schestowitz Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:41:29 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30510 http://phpicalendar.net/ http://phpicalendar.net/

]]> By: alexking.org: Blog > Free-Busy? http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30505 alexking.org: Blog > Free-Busy? Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:55:41 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30505 [...] There have been a number of interesting suggestions on my post yesterday that attempt to solve the handheld-desktop sync and provide a web view of my calendars. However, many of these do not include editing via the web interface and none of them include a public free-busy only view1 for my work week that combines all my calendars. [...] [...] There have been a number of interesting suggestions on my post yesterday that attempt to solve the handheld-desktop sync and provide a web view of my calendars. However, many of these do not include editing via the web interface and none of them include a public free-busy only view1 for my work week that combines all my calendars. [...]

]]> By: Kerim Friedman http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30504 Kerim Friedman Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:03:49 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30504 I should have waited longer before posting the above comment - I just heard from the developer of iSynCal and was able to resolve the problems. It works great with WebDav drives - you just have to be sure to either name the folder with the ics files as "Calendar" (with a capital C) or to properly specify the folder name in the preferences. It is best to create such a folder and export the calendars you wish to sync before starting. The Sunbird solution I mentioned above does not seem ideal - I'm not sure if it still works after Apple switched from using the .ics format internally. I should have waited longer before posting the above comment – I just heard from the developer of iSynCal and was able to resolve the problems. It works great with WebDav drives – you just have to be sure to either name the folder with the ics files as “Calendar” (with a capital C) or to properly specify the folder name in the preferences. It is best to create such a folder and export the calendars you wish to sync before starting.

The Sunbird solution I mentioned above does not seem ideal – I’m not sure if it still works after Apple switched from using the .ics format internally.

]]> By: Kerim Friedman http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30502 Kerim Friedman Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:05:34 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30502 UPDATE: I wasn't able to get iSynCal to work for me, but this hint on MacOSXhints.com says that Sunbird offers good two-way syncing: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050125052944191 There are some scripts there that supposedly automate the process. UPDATE: I wasn’t able to get iSynCal to work for me, but this hint on MacOSXhints.com says that Sunbird offers good two-way syncing:

http://www.macosxhin[...]125052944191

There are some scripts there that supposedly automate the process.

]]> By: Calendaring at Dan Cameron 2.doh http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30501 Calendaring at Dan Cameron 2.doh Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:10:25 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30501 [...] I just commented on how I calendar over at alexking.org: Blog > Calendaring. So I *think* I have the answer for you. Let me explain what I work with first. I have an iMac at home, a macbook pro for work and travel, and a blackberry. [...] [...] I just commented on how I calendar over at alexking.org: Blog > Calendaring. So I *think* I have the answer for you. Let me explain what I work with first. I have an iMac at home, a macbook pro for work and travel, and a blackberry. [...]

]]> By: Dan http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30500 Dan Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:09:18 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30500 So I *think* I have the answer for you. Let me explain what I work with first. I have an iMac at home, a macbook pro for work and travel, and a blackberry. The only solution I've found is Google Calendar, iCal and PocketMac but it might not do what you exactly want to do. Google Calendar is great because I can share my cals with everyone and edit my wifes and vise versa easily. Anyways, I have iCal publish a calendar to icalx.com which offers free ical syncing (awesome if you didn't know you didn't have to pay for .mac in order to do that). I then subscribe to that calendar in Google. I still can't edit that cal in Gcal but I'm sure they're working on it and before they do I just publish my gcal and subscribe to it in ical. Confusing yes, but I simply just have 2 cals for each system since they only go one way for now. I then use pocket mac and it syncs both cals, pretty easy there. But I can edit on my bb because it syncs with the iCal master call that I publish that eventually goes to gcal. Wow, maybe there's a different way to explain it. And I know I'm missing something because I work with NUD and Basecamp too which is cumbersome in itself. Oh, and don't ask about tasks. :D So I *think* I have the answer for you. Let me explain what I work with first. I have an iMac at home, a macbook pro for work and travel, and a blackberry.

The only solution I’ve found is Google Calendar, iCal and PocketMac but it might not do what you exactly want to do.

Google Calendar is great because I can share my cals with everyone and edit my wifes and vise versa easily. Anyways, I have iCal publish a calendar to icalx.com which offers free ical syncing (awesome if you didn’t know you didn’t have to pay for .mac in order to do that). I then subscribe to that calendar in Google. I still can’t edit that cal in Gcal but I’m sure they’re working on it and before they do I just publish my gcal and subscribe to it in ical.

Confusing yes, but I simply just have 2 cals for each system since they only go one way for now.

I then use pocket mac and it syncs both cals, pretty easy there. But I can edit on my bb because it syncs with the iCal master call that I publish that eventually goes to gcal.

Wow, maybe there’s a different way to explain it. And I know I’m missing something because I work with NUD and Basecamp too which is cumbersome in itself.

Oh, and don’t ask about tasks.

:D

]]> By: Kerim Friedman http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30499 Kerim Friedman Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:50:50 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30499 I was just looking around for something a little simpler - I want to sync iCal between macs without signing up for .Mac - and I found this program which might help you. It is called iSyncCal and it can also sync with Mozilla Sunbird. That might solve your first issue. Using PHPiCalendar or publishing directly to your own webDav server you can then easily subscribe to your work calendar in Google Calendar which has some good functions for sharing and publishing your schedule. Link to iSyncCal: http://ww2.unime.it/flr/isyncal/en/index.html I was just looking around for something a little simpler – I want to sync iCal between macs without signing up for .Mac – and I found this program which might help you. It is called iSyncCal and it can also sync with Mozilla Sunbird. That might solve your first issue. Using PHPiCalendar or publishing directly to your own webDav server you can then easily subscribe to your work calendar in Google Calendar which has some good functions for sharing and publishing your schedule.

Link to iSyncCal:

http://ww2.unime.it/[...]n/index.html

]]> By: Alex http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30494 Alex Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:06:54 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30494 Schedule, scheduling - why not calendar and calendaring? ;) Schedule, scheduling – why not calendar and calendaring? ;)

]]> By: Chris P. http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30493 Chris P. Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:05:52 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30493 My suggestion is to not use "to calendar" as a verb. My suggestion is to not use “to calendar” as a verb.

]]> By: PatrickQG http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30490 PatrickQG Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:37:05 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30490 iCal with .Mac does the whole sync between machines thing (though only between Macs, which might be a problem for some). You can publish calendars, but I'm not sure how much control over what detail it publishes. I do it with iCal+.Mac, then that stuff synchronises using Entourage to Exchange, which then synchronises to my phone (over wifi). It's a bit convoluted, but means I don't need to be near my own computer to sync my phone. iCal with .Mac does the whole sync between machines thing (though only between Macs, which might be a problem for some). You can publish calendars, but I’m not sure how much control over what detail it publishes.

I do it with iCal+.Mac, then that stuff synchronises using Entourage to Exchange, which then synchronises to my phone (over wifi). It’s a bit convoluted, but means I don’t need to be near my own computer to sync my phone.

]]> By: Greg http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring#comment-30485 Greg Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:47:22 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/09/calendaring/#comment-30485 I'm waiting for the google calendar to sync with the palm desktop, then I'll be set. I’m waiting for the google calendar to sync with the palm desktop, then I’ll be set.

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