Comments on: MyMacWorld Calendar, Outlook Compatible

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:52:01 +0000

Very very coooool! But understand MS: they want both CR and LF to make sure both operations are performed.

By: Don Mahoney

Don Mahoney — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:00:09 +0000

Thanks for the post - which brought this situation to our attention. We routinely monitor blogs and other communications in order to stay on top of user experiences (and the opinions they express!), and to quickly catch and address things that may inadvertently fall through the cracks. This was unfortunately one of them. My personal regrets and apologies to those negatively affected by this one.

Armed with the benefit of this poster’s legwork, we’ve pushed through a build which fixes this problem. You should find that your MyMacWorld portal will now properly support iCal.

Thanks again for the post - and for those converging on MacWorld… have a great show!

Don Mahoney
COO - BDMetrics, Inc.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:04:40 +0000

I find it a little strange that a site that caters to Maccies is run on an ASP platform.

By: phasorburn

phasorburn — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:52:13 +0000

Isn’t perl a little heavy for this? How about a purpose built stream editor, and keeping it in one process instead of using two and pipes?

Something more like this :

sed -E -e ’s/VERSION:1.0/VERSION:2.0/g’ ShowCalendar.ics -e ’s/(\r\n|\n|\r)/\r\n/g’ > newShowCalendar.ics

Just call me an unix hack that never learned that new fangled perl

By: phasorburn

phasorburn — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:54:13 +0000

craptastic, I misfired on the copy/paste, had the original .ics in the wrong spot.

sed -E -e ’s/VERSION:1.0/VERSION:2.0/g’ -e ’s/(\r\n|\n|\r)/\r\n/g’ ShowCalendar.ics > newShowCalendar.ics

By: brunerd

brunerd — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:08:04 +0000

Thanks, for everyone’s contributions. It was late and I just wanted the darn thing to work, and I had some false starts in awk and sed, so when I found the perl regexp example I just piped them together… I had tried multiple -e expressions in perl but it didn’t like that, so thanks for the tip. And thank you BD Metrics for correcting the misstep, nice to see such a fast response I honestly didn’t who you guys were or if you’d be responsive, so I cooked up a fix, glad it was a temporary one. Thanks all, glad to have more comments than fake pharma spam