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Upcoming changes to the university events calendar

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Something big is happening to the university Events Calendar.
A little bit ago Rob Vrabel mentioned we were working on the events calendar and I would like to confirm that we are and we have some great things in store.
We will be running down all the new features in detail closer to launch but here are [...]

Some Calendar Statistics

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

We are currently in the process of redesigning and adding more functionality to the University wide calendar (more on this later).  We decided to run some statistics to see what people have used and to get a better understanding of our users.  Here are some interesting statistics we came across.
Statistics
136 separate calendars
30,804 total events among [...]

hCalendar microformat support in the events calendar

Monday, November 10th, 2008

In our continuous effort to support microformats, we are proud to announce expanded hCalendar support on the Wayne State University Events Calendar.
If you are not familiar with microformats the goal is to use plain HTML and embed through classes and Semantic HTML information about the content. Similar to XML to describe content but in plain [...]

iCal makes its debut on the events calendar

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

We are proud to announce you can now subscribe to any calendar via iCal or save any individual event in iCal format. This will allow anyone to keep up with university events without having to check site every day. Just subscribe to a category of event you are interested in or a specific calendar.
Subscriptions
You can [...]

New features coming to the university events calendar.

Monday, February 4th, 2008

The university events calendar has been around since 2004. It has gone through three complete re-codings since its initial release and it about to go through another. Although thanks to PHPSimpl it won’t be too painful. We are revamping how an event is added, not only help the student looking for events but also to [...]