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a weblog of post-its

Now, I'm not a Radio user but this theme for Radio that Cristian has just released makes me wish for a moment that I was just to try it. Looks really cool. I probably wouldn't use it directly, but there are many elements in it that I find intriguing. Ahh if only I had some time to do a full set of CSS options for d2r...

calendar questions

Part of the work on the new beta of cactus has to do with making the calendar work properly and adding main missing features to it (such as recurrent events, or all day events). One interesting area in this sense is the calendar "properties" or configuration if you will. Here are the main elements that I'm working with at the moment:

• Format for date
• Format for hour/min
• Timezone (to support timezone shifts when traveling or working with a group on a different country, etc)
• First day of the week (eg., "Monday")
• Workdays. Each day of the week can be a workday or not. If it is a workday we can specify previously set "working hours" as ranges start-finish (multiple ranges for each day are allowed, as opposed to most current tools where only one range per day is possible).
• Holidays. Each holiday can have a day/month, name, and description.

This stuff would be represented in an XML file (see an example here) that will be accessible from the root dir of the application and configurable through the API as well.

Questions: what are other important calendar settings? Calendar functions in general would be interesting too, but general properties are the main focus at the moment. However, if there's any particular element of your current calendar software that you find annoying or some feature that you'd really, really like to have, let me know too. Drop a comment, or send me an email. Thanks!

so that's why they find it so easy to hack Windows?

More on Microsoft and its security problems: a News.com interview with Bob Muglia, a top exec at MS. What I find interesting about this interview is a) that Muglia is giving the same non-answer answers as others do, most notably Ballmer, and b) that the reporter doesn't let up. At all. Watch out near the end for when Muglia starts saying that hackers are criminals, and the reporter asks "what does that have to do with anything?". :-) Exactly, since they were talking about MS's problems, not about whether it was a crime or not, and whether they are criminals or not has nothing to do with the security problems in their software. Highly recommended.