Re: [CODE4LIB] Simulating off-campus for testing

2008-09-18 Thread Samuel Liston
Just getting a DSL line is pretty cheap. Using a DSL like to test lets you remove a lot more of your network from the equation than vpn'ing out or tunneling stuff over tor. Plus if your main connection out ever went down (not that _yours_ would, but that might factor into the decision making proc

Re: [CODE4LIB] Calendar Data Exchange

2008-09-18 Thread Nate Vack
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Cloutman, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about xCal (iCalendar based XML format)? Does anyone use this > technology? It is possible to do it with Atom Feeds? Other ideas? I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned hCalendar -- essentially, an xHTML port of i

Re: [CODE4LIB] Calendar Data Exchange

2008-09-18 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I thought iCalendar was a format? I believe that Google Calendar and Apple iCal can both import data in the iCalendar format. But I'm no expert in these things, maybe I'm confused. There is definitely some format that both Google Calendar and Apple iCal can import--given a URL, they will ev

Re: [CODE4LIB] Calendar Data Exchange

2008-09-18 Thread Ross Singer
I doubt xCal is nearly as widely supported as iCal. Although not a 'standard', per se, Google Calendar's Atom extensions are also a possible option, given that anything that Google does has pretty broad support. http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/ -Ross. On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Clou

Re: [CODE4LIB] Calendar Data Exchange

2008-09-18 Thread Cloutman, David
Thanks. Again, we're not looking so much for an application, but a _format_ that we can publish from our existing CMS in such a way that we could reasonably expect other organizations to import into their systems. Because it is likely that some of our community partners will need to create the impo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Calendar Data Exchange

2008-09-18 Thread John Fereira
Miriam Goldberg wrote: I'd go with icalendar. It plays nicely with most major calendar applications. also, at the risk of sounding like a shill, I'm helping develop a web app (www.fusecal.com) that'll make it easier for web publishers to get their calendar information into users personal calenda