<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>That'll be $1,000 plus GST paid to Toby thanks!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://tsdg.typepad.com/restaurants/2009/07/picassos-napkin.html">http://tsdg.typepad.com/restaurants/2009/07/picassos-napkin.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px; ">The story goes that Picasso was sitting in a Paris café when an admirer approached and asked if he would do a quick sketch on a paper napkin. Picasso politely agreed, swiftly executed the work, and handed back the napkin — but not before asking for a rather significant amount of money. The admirer was shocked: “How can you ask for so much? It took you a minute to draw this!” “No”, Picasso replied, “It took me 40 years”</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"><i><br></i></span></font><div><div>On 14/08/2009, at 11:20 AM, Toby Corkindale wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Nathan Bailey wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I have a quick job that I think would take an experienced coder less than a couple of days to do (but I am a notorious optimist :-)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I want to be able to take an .ics file and push it into Google calendar. I *don't* need synchronisation, I'm happy with obliteration (ie. the new data can completely overwrite the old).<br></blockquote><br>cp calendar.ics ~username/public_html/<br><br>Go to Google Calandar, and select "Add calendar" and then "Add by URL"<br>Enter: <a href="http://your.host.net/~username/calendar.ics">http://your.host.net/~username/calendar.ics</a><br><br>Whenever you update calendar.ics, google calendar should automatically pick up the changes after a while. (Unsure what the sync interval is, but seems quick enough for me)<br><br>Authentication comes in the form of "security by obscurity" unfortunately.. Generate a random UUID via uuidgen (or just run: echo `ps auxw`|md5sum) and then rename your calendar to it, ie:<br>mv calendar.ics b0cb8ec0-cdeb-4426-a2de-ebd5bed06ee9.ics<br>(and use that as the URL for google calendar)<br><br><br><br>I'm afraid this method doesn't involve Perl though!<br><br>-Toby<br>_______________________________________________<br>Melbourne-pm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Melbourne-pm@pm.org">Melbourne-pm@pm.org</a><br>http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pm<br>-- <br><br>Click here to report this message as spam:<br>https://login.mailguard.com.au/report/1y46g00fJm/3IXlpTHB8ecmLWF2E8WpHx/0.6<br><br></div></div><br></div></body></html>