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June 01, 2005
Show List
In honor of the large amount of summer shows coming up, I thought I'd add the list of shows I'm planning to attend to the site. And since I'm a lazy bastard who has no desire to maintain a show list in more that one place, I hatched a devious scheme. Don't let the simplicity of show list you see at the left decieve you... that thing has a dynamic lifecycle all it's own. Here's how it gets generated:
- I maintain a separate calendar in my email/calendar program, Bloomba. This calendar contains only shows, with the performer name and venue in the title and description of the event.
- Using Bloomba's calendar publishing feature, I set it to autogmagically publish my calendar hourly to iCal Exchange, which is a free site that hosts iCal calendar files. The HTML version of the published calendar can be viewed here.
- Using PHP on the blog, I download the ICS version of the calendar hosted at iCal Exchange and parse it using a code chunk I found here, then I do some venue information lookup in local table and display the results.
What does this mean for you? Absolutely nuthin' ™. But I can add a show to my Treo or to my calendar in Bloomba and minutes later it will automatically appear on the blog. Hooray for me!
Posted by jake at June 1, 2005 07:22 PM
Comments
Is it just me, or does that sound ridiculously more complicated than just making another list?
Posted by: Trevor at June 1, 2005 11:56 PM
Damn you.
Posted by: Jacob Rosenberg at June 2, 2005 12:17 PM