It's Time!
Why can't we schedule a dentist's appointment with the dentists' computer, while avoiding conflicts with work events and home events? Calendaring software has existed for at least a decade, yet the...
View ArticlePlay That Funky Music - But When?
Ever try looking up the touring schedule of a favorite band, or the game schedule of your favorite sports team, on the Web? What a hodge-podge of calendaring information. Some list dates and locations...
View ArticleMore rants on the lack of calendaring for the Internet
In the course of posting to a calendaring mailing-list, it hit me - it's been somewhere between 10 and 14 years that I've been around office/calendaring software, and we still cannot reliably schedule...
View ArticleWhy doesn't Palm get it?
Look, I'm not going to claim that iCalendar is the absolute best calendar data format there is. It has issues and problems just like other Internet quasi-standards. But it's what we've got, and I just...
View ArticleJust to show I'm not just prejudiced against Palm
I've got problems with Lotus Notes, too. Notes is what we use at work, currently. In general it works okay, but iCalendar support is spotty or odd in some ways. You can't click on and open an iCalendar...
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Calendars everywhere, someday!
Imagine this... you search for an event - your favorite band's concert in your city, a public hearing, your second cousin from Poughkeepsie's birthday. When you find it, with a simple click you add it...
View ArticleAnother start on the path to calendar nirvana..
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium had its public launch (see the press release here) this week. There are quite a group of people involved - including some very experienced and/or smart ones....
View ArticleSo, it's been a while...
I haven't posted in some time, probably because not a lot has happened in the calendar world. There's been a new Calendar Interop by the Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium which included the...
View ArticleThey're missing out on opportunities, and money too!
Most of the big players in the calendaring & scheduling world have some support for the iCalendar standards (RFC2445 at least, RFC2446/iTIP and RFC2447/iMIP to some degree). Some have better...
View ArticleGood signs....
There are several good signs lately in the calendar world.First, the Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium seems to be making progress with membership, they have some big players and are trying to...
View ArticleMore good news!
The July 2005 issue of Linux Journal has an article about extracting calendar information from a browser and building iCalendar info on the fly to return to the browser as MIME type "text/calendar"....
View ArticleTime keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin...
Seems that I need to set some kind of calendar alarm to remind me to post here!I haven't heard any new news on the Calconnect.org front, although there was another Interop in early June, so there's...
View ArticleNew IETF Working Group for Calendar
There's a new calendar working group at the IETF. This group's purpose is to simplify and improve the iCalendar standards. Complexity of the standards, and different interpretations in different...
View ArticleThe time has come to get back to posting!
I've really been remiss in keeping this up. I'm going to try to do better, and I'll start with some interesting news.Hans Bjorhdahl, who refers to himself as "the calendar guy" for Micrsoft Outlook,...
View ArticleOutlook 12: is WebCalendaring an implementation of CalDAV, or something else?
I "hear" that Outlook 12 will have a "Sharing Server", and that among other things it supports a new function named "WebCalendaring". Could it be that Microsoft is implementing CalDAV (a...
View ArticleWhy subscribe??
If you've read my profile, you know I work with mainframes. In most cases (and in this one), it means the person involved has a lot of years under their belt. I happen to have worn many hats during...
View Article"That's not a calendar... THIS is a calendar"
Have you noticed how many "calendars" on the 'Net are really just passive representations? An awful lot of them are just HTML or PDF versions of what you used to get in paper newsletter- a static...
View ArticleA new calendar tool about to hit...
Via the blog of the famous Robert Scoble, I read about 30 boxes (note, the link is not open yet, apparently the public beta begins Sunday - 2/5/2006). This is an application that is a web-based,...
View ArticleEventful and. Upcoming
Eventful and Upcoming are two very similar "event database" systems, which host event listings, allow you to add or search for events, and allow you to filter them by various criteria or tags. I think...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
This post describes some issues they're having because some Australian states decided to delay Daylight Savings Time a week, but apparently nobody told their Exchange server(s). Not a huge deal really...
View ArticleGoogle Calendar arrives
It appears the long-rumored Google Calendar is here. The overview looks good - but the proof will be in how well it handles the everyday things we all want to do with Calendars. Wonder if they will...
View ArticleCalendar Interop Demonstrated in Miami
For those few of you that read this blog for calendaring info, let me point you to this entry at Calendar Swamp. Scott Mace reported on a demonstration for The Open Group of free/busy interoperability....
View ArticleApple polishes its calendar support
In a move that's sure to help all of the iFolk in their iLives, Apple has announced improved calendaring support in Leopard, the new version of OS X. They've improved the client-andserver-side...
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