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A comment on the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

I have written a little script and put it up on http://brightbyte.de/page/Publishing_... in the hope it will be of use to others. feel free to comment. – brightbyte, on September 13, 2008 12:09

A comment on the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

that does it, thanks :) – brightbyte, on September 12, 2008 21:32

brightbyte marked one of Tom Insam's replies in Dopplr as useful. Tom Insam replied to the question "Use with KOrganizer".

Stealth replied on September 10, 2008 10:15 to the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

check this http://www.google.com/support/calenda...

Tom Insam replied on September 08, 2008 08:36 to the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

Mmmmm, holidays. Anyway. You've very close - iCal doesn't really speak WebDAV, it merely does HTTP PUT (not POST) to the URL http://dopplr.com/upload/xxx/calendar.... So this works for me:

curl -v -T dopplr.ics https://www.dopplr.com/upload/XXX/tes...

You don't _have_ to put a calendar name in the url - everything after the token is entirely up to you to identify your calendar, and you can upload as many different calendars as you want as long as they have different urls. To remove a calendar later, send a DELETE to the same url.

Hope this helps.

Matt Biddulph replied on September 03, 2008 11:44 to the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

The developer who wrote our calendar code is on vacation this week. Let me check with him when he gets back and I'll let you know what we expect for calendars over HTTP POST.

brightbyte replied on September 03, 2008 11:30 to the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

I have tried to upload the ICS file directly using cURL, with no success:

curl -v --data-urlencode @Dopplr.ics https://www.dopplr.com/upload/xxxxxxx...

results in "500 Internal Server Error"

same with this:

curl -v -F data=@Dopplr.ics https://www.dopplr.com/upload/xxxxxxx...

so... how would i get that right? If i "just have to post" the data, that shouldn't be difficult... what am i doing wrong?

brightbyte replied on September 03, 2008 10:54 to the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

Hm, googlig around tells me that iCal uses (plain) WebDAV to publish the data. I'm confused now.

Also... shouldn't I be able to read data from my private URL at dopplr? All i get is a 404.

brightbyte replied on September 03, 2008 10:40 to the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

Thank you for responding. Support for GroupDAV and CalDAV would sure be nice to have, you can never have too many interfaces for interaction, imho.

Anyway... KOrganizer doesn't seem to support "plain post" - is there some documentation for this somewhere? which fields, what encoding, etc? (how do you post to a directory, btw?). I might be able to set somethign up.

Using Google Calendar would be a possibility, but it would mean I have to use their web interface (which isn't an improvement, reall) or have to find a way to get Google Calendar onto my desktop (which is just the same problem again - because, sadly, KOrganizer doesn't suport CalDAV, only GroupDAV).

It always makes me sad to see data silos isolated by the lack of good standards :(

Matt Biddulph replied on September 03, 2008 10:23 to the question "Use with KOrganizer" in Dopplr:

Sorry, we don't yet support GroupDAV or CalDAV. Here are some possibilities:

Apple's iCal publishing works by automatically POSTing a calendar to a URL at dopplr.com every time you make a change - it's a write-only system. I haven't used KOrganizer so I don't know if that's something it can support.

Because we support subscribing to a web calendar, you could consider setting up a Google Calendar and accessing it via their CalDAV support. Then you can subscribe Dopplr to your private calendar URL at Google.

brightbyte asked a question in Dopplr on September 03, 2008 09:55:

Use with KOrganizer

I would like to use dopplr with KOrganizer, KDE's calendaring application. It supports iCalendar format and a number of calendar-server protocols, like Exchange and GroupDAV.

Is this possible? I saw that it's possible to use it with apple's iCal via a web upload system - what is that, technically? Some form of WebDAV? I was hoping that it would be compatible with GroupDAV "somehow", but it doesn't seem to be the case. I have also heard about CalDAV... is that supported yet?

Florian Konnertz marked one of brightbyte's replies in Wikimedia Foundation as useful. brightbyte replied to the question "How can i access the recent changes of a particular day in the past?".

Florian Konnertz replied on August 05, 2008 15:15 to the question "How can i access the recent changes of a particular day in the past?" in Wikimedia Foundation:

thx for answering... okay, you reminded me of the "recentness" of the RC code, heard that before. Your news extension looks quite nice. I guess i am not yet sure what i want or need. Probably i want a calendar, i tried the Semantic Calendar once, will have a look again.

brightbyte replied on August 05, 2008 14:32 to the question "How do I add the history of a page in the main article?" in Wikimedia Foundation:

The PageBy extension I wrote kind of does this, but i summarizes a bit more. Have a look: <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensi...>. My News extension <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensi...> can give a full list of changes, but currently not for a single page, only by namespace or category.

brightbyte replied on August 05, 2008 14:28 to the question "How can i access the recent changes of a particular day in the past?" in Wikimedia Foundation:

RecentChanges can not really be used for that. Two reasons:

1) RecentChanges only gos back one week (per default - Wikipedia has the limit set to 30 days) - see <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual%...>

2) There is no way to show old events. It's "recent" changes only. There is a "from" parameter, but that means "limit results to changed from that time until now".

I wrote the News extension <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensi...> to pervert my own mediawiki installation into a pseudo block, and it works well enough, as you can see on the front page of <http://brightbyte.de>, giving a list of latest but not-so-recent updates. But you can not currently look back further, there's no calendaring function to this. I don't know if there are extensions that offer it... maybe there are.

Florian Konnertz replied on August 05, 2008 07:50 to the discussion "A good place for MediaWiki support?" in Wikimedia Foundation:

i'm very new here, but it feels good and i can imagine this site as add. support platform for many products including mediawiki. It's somewhere inbetween irc and wiki . Let's see.

Florian Konnertz started following the discussion "A good place for MediaWiki support?" in Wikimedia Foundation.

db0 replied on June 30, 2008 13:18 to the discussion "A good place for MediaWiki support?" in Wikimedia Foundation:

I was actually looking for support on this here too. Thanks for opening this

Andreas Fuchs replied on May 04, 2008 20:00 to the idea "Allow JavaScript from friends only" in Soup:

It was indeed a bug in filtering... and, most critically, caching of the non-filtered posts. We've plugged that hole now, and I'm confident that the front page and your friends list is safe now.

Christopher Clay replied on May 04, 2008 14:22 to the idea "Allow JavaScript from friends only" in Soup:

The current policy is that JavaScript is filtered everywhere where posts from different authors are mixed: The front page, your friends view, reaction bubbles, etc. – but not on your own blog.
That ratatuy was able to inject JavaScript anyway must have been a bug in the filtering – we're still investigating that.

I'm not sure allowing JS from your "friends" is a good idea, since that term is used very loosly on Soup: You're really just subscribing to someone's posts, there is not a huge level of trust implied.