saltybeagle is in APS4 Bedework Calendar Implementation #heweb08

31 responses to this plurk.

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  October 06, 2008 at 18:58 daugustine says avoiding the javascript: void("") over here
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  October 06, 2008 at 18:58 saltybeagle says of course, the big guy has to take the seat right in front of me.
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  October 06, 2008 at 18:58 saltybeagle says blocking my view
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:03 saltybeagle says Cornelia Ann Bailey, University of Chicago
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:04 saltybeagle says appears to be an introduction to what bedework is
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:05 smeranda says open source?
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:06 saltybeagle says www.uchicago.edu/ dynamic front page, old calendar would blow up at any time
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:07 daugustine says ooh... i like their homepage
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:08 saltybeagle says going over calendar standards: iCalendar, iCal, CALDAV
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:11 saltybeagle says sample sites: events.rpi.edu/ event.uchicago.edu/cal/
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:14 saltybeagle says they use two RH5 vm's with mysql
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:15 smeranda says good use of red on uchigao.edu
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:16 saltybeagle says "calendar is only as good as the number and quality of events entered in the system"
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:17 saltybeagle says smeranda yes, nice site
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:18 daugustine says now if I could find some way to get the staff to actually put their events in the calendar
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:22 saltybeagle says bedework has widgets to remotely grab events for display on other sites.
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:26 saltybeagle says encourages someone to maintain the system, post events, dig up important events, quality assurance
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:29 saltybeagle says notes for implementingon't start with replacing the central calendar, do something safer first.
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:35 saltybeagle says really easy to evaluate, one download, and if your desktop pc is strong enough you can run it
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:37 smeranda says looks and sounds like a sweet calendar.
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:37 saltybeagle says began evaluating in 2005... and decided to go with bedework
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:41 saltybeagle says I don't think bedework looks that great (visually), but they've got a lot of great features
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:41 smeranda says is it open source?
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:42 saltybeagle says yep!
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:44 saltybeagle says question from the audience, "have you had any problems with failsafes & race conditions" :-|
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:45 saltybeagle says seems kinda slow
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:46 saltybeagle says audience--- "race conditions, 500 errors, we've fixed some, but theres still more" 50 users, 4 servers,
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:46 saltybeagle says sounds like an audience member has had quite a few issues and errors with their deployment
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  October 06, 2008 at 19:47 saltybeagle says but, their developer doesn't communicated well, and isn't that pro-active about fixing errors
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  October 07, 2008 at 01:36 evilpythagoras says so when are giving your talk on events.unl.edu
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  October 07, 2008 at 03:03 saltybeagle lot of work to be done before I'd go bragging about it