So I sit here in the car on Rt. 17 heading to my girlfriend’s dad’s house and realize I am probably the only person who does 3-D modeling in the car. I have no choice, I have a modeling and simulation case study due tomorrow and a Multivariate Calculus test tomorrow as well. Need to use my time wisely. I finished all the actual modeling and simulations last night without looking at the results. Now that I look at the results, I realize they may be a bit off.
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Well, I can finally say, its done.  About as done as it is going to get.  I fixed the problems with the time zones, it is subscribable in Google Calendar, Thunderbird, and any other program that supports the iCalendar specification.  (Basically if it allows you to import ics files)  I wrote it with a cache function just in case the server gets hammered it wont be converting the csv to an ics file each time it is requested, only if the ics file is more then a certain age.  If it is under a certain age, it will simply serve up the old ics file.  This shouldn’t be a problem since the calendar doesn’t change that often, and when it does, it isn’t life or death that it updates right away.  Maybe I’ll code in a “force update” ability to it, but we’ll see.  My next project is to get a general csv to ical converter going for anybody out there.  Need to work on upload file security and dealing with differently formed csv files.  Not sure how I will do that, maybe have the user specify the column number of the required columns.  However I will run into the problem with how to create a UID that is constant so when an event changes it doesn’t just appear as a new event on the importing calendar but rather updates the old event.  I haven’t seen any csv files other then the crappy WebEvents format that Stevens uses, I will have to look around in case others include the added information for repeating events and such.  My next trick will be to automatically change the dates the program grabs from WebEvents, but I think that is for another day.  Right now, the converter is located at http://www.thegreatco.com/stevenscalendar/calendar.php Adding that link will get you the regular Student Life calendar (RSO Events mainly). Read more