• Mac OS X Server

    Mac OS X Server 10.5: Parsing and Formatting for CalDAV

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal A key aspect of any groupware solution is the ability to share calendars. Leopard server brings the long-awaited ability to share calendars to the Mac OS X Server platform. Leopard uses CalDAV as the back end protocol for Calendar sharing. CalDAV is currently supported by Facebook, Novell Evolution, Zimbra, Drupal, Microsoft Exchange, Kerio and now Mac OS X Server. CalDAV looks at each event as an HTTP resource, giving users the ability to view events in a web browser. Each event is stored in the iCalendar format. A typical event in the iCalendar format: BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Apple Calendar//Calendar1//Charles Edge BEGIN:VTODO DTSTAMP:19980130T134500Z SEQUENCE:2 UID:uid4@host1.com ORGANIZER:MAILTO:riaa@us.gov…

  • Business

    Open Source and Development

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Developers of code have always been fairly open with their tips and tricks. New advancements in the websphere come fast and many of them come from the open source community. Led by people like Linus Torvalds, the original author of Linux, the open source ommunity has rewritten many of the most popular proprietary applications on the market and made them freely available to the world, asking only that if they don’t sell the code you don’t turn around and sell the code as well. This was the foundation for the web. Apache, the most popular web server in use, is a product of the…