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Attendee field definitely the culprit
See subject. I checked the API documentation, and it has a complete list of iCalendar attributes that the server returns. So, in my downloader code I just listed out each attribute except ATTENDEE. With that list of attributes, it took about 1 minute to download a year’s worth of data. When I added ATTENDEE in,…
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More on iCalendar vs. vCalendar export
I used the Oracle Calendar GUI client to create iCalendar and vCalendar exports for the same date range. The formats are obviously different, but the data extracted is similar. Exceptions: The vCalendar export includes “TODO” items from Oracle Calendar, which I’ve never used and don’t care about. And, the iCalendar export includes email addresses of…
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Shedding the Schedule of Classes Page Albatross…
I’m working on redoing UMBC’s Online Schedule of Classes page. The current version is generated by a big, messy Perl script that reads the raw data uploaded from the HP3000, formats it, generates pages for all the individual disciplines, and then generates the top-level page (which contains links for each semester along with links to…