On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:20:12PM -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> A subset of what webcalender.sf.net.  Multiple people can log on and
> add events.  You can layer other people's schedules on top of yours.
> Interface with Palm and Outlook.  Make coffee in the morning.

Okay, that explains the disconnect I was feeling.  Is your motivation
to produce a similar application, spinning off useful widgets along the
way, or are you more interested in the widgets that the webcalendar
seems to imply for themselves?  The latter is what I'd be interested in,
although almost all of my use of calendars involves looking at multiple
entities (people in webcalendar; facilities (labs, presentation
stations, etc.) in my use) at the same time.  I also need some
idiosyncratic times rather than the common small-fractional-hour blocks
I see in their demos.

Possibly this is excessively different to share much more than a few
low-level routines, such as the "make a grid (weekly lists of lists of
days) representing the days of a given month)" routine - this is the
sort of more general thing I've been refactoring out of the existing
codebase recently.  For a while I had a dream about handling both
wall-time as well as class-period-based scheduling, but it has always
looked to be far too much work for something that this app doesn't
really need.  Maybe after it matures and attracts attention from users
with more diverse requirements...

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