An all-inclusive calendar featuring official and non-official events around SXSW. I’ve just used this tool to plan my week at Southby, and then subscribed to its iCalendar feed in iCal. Nice.
Advice to SXSW newbs: do plan out your schedule in advance, but don’t be too married to it. If you have no plan, you’ll be lost and you’ll find yourself ducking into panels at the last minute and not being able to find a decent seat. But, if you try to hard to stick to your plan, you’re going to miss out on a lot of the fun that comes with just going with the flow. Visit site »
Derek Willis (of The Washington Post) explains how to create a view that outputs iCal files using Django and the vObject Python module. Looks very simple. I’ll definitely be using this in the near future. Visit site »
I stopped using Entourage long ago, but he’s right: it’s this sort of functionality that is sorely missing from Apple’s PIM suite (Mail, iCal, Address Book, etc.). I can’t tell you how many times per day I want to link an e-mail message to a To-Do or an e Visit site »