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Flash Lite 1.1 Mobile Google Calendar

Posted by: Ali Mills Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:42:00 GMT

The video above demonstrates the Google Calendar edition of the Flash Lite 1.1 mobile calendar project we’re working on at Pattern Park. Please forgive the video quality. It’s just a sneak peak, and we’re not marketing guys.

In the video, I walk through launching the calendar (which, as a nod to CL2, we call CaLendar2) from a deck icon; navigating its month, day, and event views; and adding an event to Google Calendar with the application’s hook to Google’s SMS gateway.

The version demo’ed above is a quite a few iterations beyond what I showed during my MAXUP presentation. In fact, it’s bug free. You may be wondering, “it sounds mature, is CaLendar2 available in source or packaged form”? Well, for those asking, thanks for asking. The answer is, “not yet”. We still need to implement a distribution process because of some Flash Lite 1.1 details. Our plan is to have that process complete in time to release CaLendar2 with Lifebin. We’ll be talking about Lifebin quite a bit in future posts.

If you’re interested in CaLendar2, will you please post a comment letting us know? If there’s enough interest, we’re willing to shift priorities to get the distribution process implemented sooner. Also, if you feel like CaLendar2 is something you would pay for, will you please include how much you feel it’s worth in your comment? Luke and I plan for it to be free, but it’s always interesting to get a feel for something’s value.

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MAXUP :: Mobile iCalendar Reader is Going to MAX

Posted by: Ali Mills Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:07:00 GMT

MAXUP is an unconference that will be running parallel to the MAX conference from October 24rd – October 26th at the The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’ve been hearing about these unconference Foo Camp style spin-offs for a little while and like the idea. Since I’ll already be in Vegas presenting at MAX on design patterns in ActionScript 3, I’m going to join all these attendees and participate in MAXUP, too.

At MAXUP I’m going to give a demo of a mobile calendar project I’m working on that reads and presents remote calendar files (specifically iCalendar formatted files) on Flash Lite devices. Like most projects, this one has both a server and client component. The server is written in Ruby and the client in Flash Lite 1.1. I’ll be demonstrating the project running on my Nokia 6600 and Nokia N70 phones, and discuss how it was built. I’ll do my best to follow Scott Berkin’s advice on how to run a great unconference session.

Here are some recent pictures of the calendar running on my N70:

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