Sunday, November 24, 2002

Calendaring Integration I installed pHp iCalendar on my webserver - it was remarkably easy. When I post my public calendar file using Mozilla calendar, it is instantly readable from a web browser. Cool! pHp iCalendar even provides an RSS feed. I have created a small primer for using Mozilla calendar. Alarms do not work very well in Mozilla calendar. Ideally, I should receive alarms for events even when Mozilla is not open, perhaps provided by a cron job that runs whenever my calendar file changes. This job would look for any changes and add/delete items from the crontab. When an event comes due in cron, it would trigger a small system beep or biff-like notifier. 5:39:09 PM

Self-healing documentation: Installing SpamAssassin Installing SpamAssassin. - [Russell Beattie Notebook] - This is an example of why I think blogging is so great! By using weblogs and Google, documentation on the web can become self-healing after a while - people issue their own revisions and caveats to how-to's that are already available. One thing I would like to see is a "documentation mode" for Google - making sure that I see the most recent version of a how-to, as well as ranking and comments/edits by users. A "stale" indicator on pages returned by Google showing that there is an updated version of a particular how-to would also be helpful. 1:53:31 PM

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