CalDAV RFC 4791 helps sync all your calendars (ical and gcal)

Back in the Oracle days, my boss was very active in the collaboration RFC business. ICalendar, VCard revisions to later become co-author of the CalDAV Request For Comment. Working on the Oracle Calendar SDK and server, I became quite familiar with those protocols and can appreciate the complexity involved in making this happen. I think I had(was kindly asked ;) to read and give feedback on the CalDAV RFC Drafts 1000 times, while Bern was writing it. One could not imagine the amount of work and perfectionism involved in writing an internet protocol.

This morning I was pretty satisfied when I installed this neat calaboration google app to import my google calendar in macbook pro calendar(iCal) to create a meeting in iCal, modify it in Google and see all this 2 seconds later in iCal on my macbook, iCal on my iPhone and my Google calendar. Now the real strength and objective of CalDAV is to collaborate between 3rd party collaboration applications, lets see how that goes..

Slideshare and Twitter

Calendrier du Pinna

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

I started to use 2 new free online information sharing applications last week and both are pretty good in what they do.

Slideshare. To view and post and keep track of slide shows.

Twitter. After all the hype around it, I decided to give it a try my account. I think if your friends start using it it can be very convenient instead of all these instant messages and emails to huge lists of people... lets see.

Mac OS X 10.5.5 Combo Updater - DAVKit.framework issue

MBP Core Duo running 10.5.4 using the Mac OS X 10.5.5 Combo Updater.
After that the Finder kept crashing and generating CrashReporter errors about DavKit.framework.
Thank to this apple forum post, a simple replacement of the DAVKit.framwork System library I was able to save my leopard :)

Polaris - Poker bot beats human champs

There's been a big hype on Polaris beating a few good poker players over a set of 4 X 500 hands of limit Texas Hold'em poker last week. They don't stress much the fact that its a limit game, which takes a he'll of a dimension away from the real game of Poker. Nothing against that amazing Artificial Intelligence piece of code these kids have programmed, but how will this Polaris Bot learn where to get balls to call an All-IN.

"An unflinching, uncaring silicon machine beat several top poker champions during “Man versus Machine” match at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. The Polaris program developed by University of Alberta researchers was beaten last year, but managed to best the players this year with a 2 win, loss and 1 draw record. And don’t think the machine had it easy, three of the human competitors had more than $1 million in lifetime winnings each."

Full article

blackle

"If Google had a black screen, taking into account the huge number of times this search engine is used, 750 megawatts/hour of energy per year would be saved. In recognition of this fact, Google has created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with lower energy consumption. Forward and make it your homepage rather than Google."

Google is letting these guys live with that? Scam or not? Whatever, Ill be using it.

blackle

My new baby toy

Goddam it hurts your wallet to make yourself happy. Hope my car in Quebec will sell soon enough. I cant wait in 2 weeks to pick up Mr. Brezina in Lyon who will bring me my new baby toy.

DEEZER music on demand

Here a simple utility website to play any music, wherever, whenerver you want. You can even get some plugins to retrieve the music that has been downloaded on your local drive. 5Stars for the guys that put together that database, bandwith and neat interface. http://www.deezer.com/

Google apps: Picassa

Google just keep on releasing state of the art applications. What's more, all these applications are linked together. Google is taking over Web 2.0.

The latest candy I tried was the Picassa photo sharing application. What is so impressive about it, is not necessarily the quick web slide shows, nor the lagging time almost nonexistent, nor the 1Gb free memory space, but the pluggins they make for thick native clients. I just installed the pluggin for iPhoto, my photo viewer application on Mac, and it just works beautifully. I go on my computer, look in my albums for my latest trip, select a bunch of photos and tell iPhoto to send all these photos in a new picassa album on the web that I can share with my friends.

I haven't checked if other big players like yahoo and Microsoft have done the same but they better do it fast because Google will eat em up, Google seams to do everything right, I am starting to think even highly critisized youTube 3Billion$ acquisition might lead to greatness!
Picassa
Download picassa pluggin and uploader for Mac