For those who've been wondering what I've been devoting most of my waking hours to lately:<\/p>\n
The Google Calendar data API<\/a> has now been released. I am very happy about this. Also extremely sleepy, as I haven't slept much in the past couple days.<\/p>\n For a programmer-oriented high-level introduction to what this is all about, see the Google Code Blog<\/a>. The general idea is that a programmer can now write an application that can send a query to Google Calendar (or, later, other services that have data APIs). Calendar then sends back a data feed (in Atom or RSS format) containing the results of the query. For example, a programmer could write a program that lets the program's user ask Google Calendar for all of their appointments that are scheduled for anytime in the next two days.<\/p>\n I realize that the non-programmers among you probably don't find this especially interesting. But I'm really excited to see it go live.<\/p>\n And if it weren't for the fact that my other big project's deadline is tomorrow, maybe I would be getting some sleep soon. (No, this doesn't mean my other project will be releasing tomorrow. But my part of it is due tomorrow.)<\/p>\n Oh--and if any of you are interested in this data API stuff, you may also want to stop by the Google Calendar data API discussion group<\/a> and\/or the more general Google data APIs discussion group<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thanks much to Twig and Kam for providing me with rides to and from work today. I was working at home up until 45 minutes before my deadline, at which point Dreamweaver freaked out and started crashing on me. And (due to lack of sleep) I don't think I would've been safe to drive, even the short distance to work, and time was too short to walk or bike. Luckily, Twig was around and drove me to work, and a colleague loaned me a laptop with a working Dreamweaver, and then late tonight after we launched, Kam came and picked me up and brought me home. And now I am going to sleep.<\/p>\n (Obligatory disclaimer: I do not, of course, speak for my company.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For those who’ve been wondering what I’ve been devoting most of my waking hours to lately: The Google Calendar data…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,25,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-web-tech","category-work"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}