Well, as many of you have probably noticed, my site has been down for a while, you can check here for a short why.  But no matter, as soon as I got my blog back online, I noticed a lot of attention to the CSV to iCal pages, so I promise to pick up development on this again.  Please, leave comments below of what features you want to see.  I am especially considering reprogramming it in .NET and opening it up on bitbucket for public development.  Please leave your comments below and let me know what you think.  I am also considering allowing you to “subscribe” to the calendar so that you can supply a csv file available on the internet in the URL and have it always spit out the converted ics file without needing to actually see my site.  Let me know what you think.

Ok, so I have been getting the messages about the errors and I have finally had a chance to look into debugging.  So I changed the code around a bit and now it will throw a more detailed error with the file type it thinks you tried to upload.  Please post the link to the error you get.  It should look something like “http://www.thegreatco.com/csvtoical/calendar.php?msg=3&detail=”.  It is the information after the “detail=” that will help me figure out the problem.  I do have a few questions for those getting errors, what browser/OS are you using?  I know this works on vista, I use it myself so I can’t figure out why its not working.  Need your help with this one, make sure to put in your 2cents.

Thanks,

TheGreatCO
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Well, I decided it was best to open it up to all.  Now you just navigate on over to http://www.thegreatco.com/csvtoical/ and you can get started converting those pesky useless CSV files to useful iCalendar (ics iCal) files.  Hope this helps you all out.  As always, if you find problems leave a comment or drop an email. Read more

So, I think I have finally completed it.  It authenticates against my userbase and does everything I feel it needs to do at a minimum.  Feel free to check it out.  http://www.thegreatco.com/csvtoical/login.php You will need to sign up for an account on my blog to get access to it.  But it is free and I am just using the login as a little extra security.  Let me know what you think.

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Well its once again late into the night and I haven’t done half the shit I’m supposed to do.  The last thing I am working on that is holding me back from releasing the general CSV to iCal converter is good old security.  I am throwing it back and forth in my head if I want to password protect it or not (I would link it to accounts here).  This is just an extra layer of protection, not much.  But at least then I would have the ability to block somebody from using it if they are abusing it or whatever.

We shall see.
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