Re: [lug-nuts] testing

From: Michael Long (mlong@ns.net)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 19:34:10 PST


I'll let Jim Nessen set it up. It's a piece of cake and he needs the
practice :)

Michael

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brian Lavender wrote:

> I have taken a close look at webcal and I like the features it contains.
> The feature it lacks it a DB backend. I have prototype code for a DB backend,
> but I thought it would be interesting to see Web Calendar since it _does_
> have a DB backend. I was planning on focusing my efforts on webcal, since
> it has so many features and need to become familiar with it if I am going
> to attempt to hack DB backend code for it. I figured if you are familiar with
> Web Calendar, you could install it, and perhaps demonstrate some useful features
> it contains. I was proposing the Larry Wall way "There's more than one way
> to do it"
>
> If you think Web Calendar has some useful features, and you want to install it
> on saclug, I would be interested in seeing the results. And yes, you are right,
> we would have two calendars in operation.
>
> Sidenote for those following this thread and are trying to distinguish what the
> F we are talking about. Here is a freshmeat results page which will show a perl
> "webcal", and a PHP "Web Calendar".
>
> http://www.freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=webcal
>
> brian
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:37:04AM -0800, Michael Long wrote:
> > Do we need to do both? I don't think so. Web Calendar is VERY minimal but
> > it serves my needs. I looked at webcal last night and it has much more
> > features. It all depends on what you want. :)
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Lavender, Brian E SPK wrote:
> >
> > > perhaps we can do both? Michael, have you configured the php/mysql web
> > > calendar? If you have perhaps you could configure it on saclug. You will
> > > have to get with jim on certain specifics. I have compiled apache with PHP
> > > using the DSO method. If jims web server was compiled with DSO, we could
> > > easily add php support.
> > >
> > > I will get with Jim, and see about adding the webcal.
> > >
> > > brian
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Michael Long [mailto:mlong@ns.net]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 8:07 PM
> > > > To: lug-nuts@saclug.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [lug-nuts] testing
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Never heard of webcal but webcalendar is a php/mysql backend
> > > > web calendar
> > > > that is pretty nice. You can run it in single user mode or
> > > > multiuser mode
> > > > :)
> > > >
> > > > Michael
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Still here. Nothing big.
> > > > >
> > > > > I did notice back from the webcal guys about the DB
> > > > backend, and I got some
> > > > > sample code. We ought to put webcal on saclug. It's pretty
> > > > cool. If you want
> > > > > to check out web cal go to http://www.freshmeat.net and search for
> > > > > webcal.
> > > > >
> > > > > brian
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 05:25:57PM -0800, James Nessen wrote:
> > > > > > the mailing list has been quiet lately, i just wanted to
> > > > be sure everyone
> > > > > > was still here :-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jim
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Brian Lavender
> > > > > http://www.brie.com/brian/
> > > > >
>
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
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