Calendar
Mobile Calendar
After about a week playing with the style sheets and previewing it on every phone I could get my hands on, I think we are finally ready for a version-1 release of the mobile view of the Campus Calendar.
Kudos go out to the UNL developers who saw a need for this and made it so easy to integrate into our setup. Both this version and the standard version point to the same database, so you’ll be getting the same content, just in an easier to use small screen view.
As an aside, styling for the mobile device is very different than developing for the desktop. There is next to no browser continuity, and even different browsers on the same device will show things differently. We are going to use this as the start of a larger foray into the mobile world, so it will show to some degree what to expect. We will be taking the 320×240 screen size as our default to make sure we are compatible with older Blackberry devices, but will at the same time try to make it look good on iPhones, Storms, and other high-end devices. We are just getting our feet wet in this arena, so if you see something we could improve on feel free to give us a yell.
Calendar Maintenance – Thursday
Our maintenance window for the campus calendar has moved to Thursday morning. Again, we hope the system will experience minimal downtime, but please be aware that a worst case scenario could leave the site unavailable for the early morning.
Calendar code update, hardware migration
We are scheduled to move the campus calendar onto our virtualized server environment tomorrow morning. Hopefully there will be minimal downtime, but be aware that the site may be down as we make the switch. We will also be updating the code to the latest version from UNL, so once we make the switch we should be good to go for the foreseeable future.
New Calendar Feature
For those who haven’t visited lately, we have added a new feature to the campus calendar — a weekly view. This is something that several folks have been asking about for quite a while, and we’re pleased to now be able to offer it as a resource.
Other upcoming features include a facebook ap that Donald St. Martin in the College Engineering is working on, as well as a mobile version that we indend to roll out for phone/mobile device users.
University calendar: 350 events and counting
The university calendar at http://calendar.tamu.edu/ reached two milestones this morning: at 11 am it included exactly 200 upcoming events (already spanning the whole school year) and exactly 150 archived events (and that’s only since June). Activities that I never heard of before are now being featured on the Texas A&M home page, TAMUmobile, the Howdy portal, Google searches, and in many more places – soon to include Facebook. › Continue reading
Calendar Maintenance
Yesterday we completed a bit of maintenance on the Campus Calendar to bring our code back in line with the latest updates from UNL. Most of this was back-end functionality changes, but if you do see something that is acting differently please let us know and we’ll make sure it wasn’t a migration issue.