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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
:Revision: 		1
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What AJAX is good for...
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:Description:
    I don't like AJAX really much. I think in most cases it's useless
    sweetness, that nobody needs in a web app (not to mention that all that
    Web2 ranting is completely ridiculous). Anyway, Tobias Struckmeier (a
    fellow eZ employee and user group mate) invited me to use Google Calendar
    a while ago. I did not try it out until now, but since I was searching for
    a good calendar application anyway, I just logged in (using my Gmail
    account) and played a bit with it.

I don't like AJAX really much. I think in most cases it's useless sweetness,
that nobody needs in a web app (not to mention that all that Web2 ranting is
completely ridiculous). Anyway, Tobias Struckmeier (a fellow `eZ`__ employee
and `user group`__ mate) invited me to use `Google Calendar`__ a while ago. I
did not try it out until now, but since I was searching for a good calendar
application anyway, I just logged in (using my `Gmail`__ account) and played a
bit with it.

.. __: http://ez.no
.. __: http://phpugdo.de
.. __: http://www.google.com/calendar/
.. __: http://gmail.com

I have to say: I'm really amazed. First of all, I just dragged my mouse on the
default calendar and it instantly created an event for me, with the timespan I
just selected. So far so good, that's JavaScript, surely a useful feature, but
easy to implement. After that, I discovered the "add other calendars"
function. It allowed me, to add public calendars of my friends, to display
their activities directly in my calendar. Since I only know of Tobias having a
Google Calendar, yet, I checked some more options and added calendars for
German and Norwegian public holidays to mine. Cool, now I know, when I will
have free time and when my Norwegian colleagues have!

So far, I was already convinced, that I will give Google Calendar a chance and
use it, because it also offers you to aggregate your calendars via RSS to any
destination you like, so I won't have to log in all the time. I decided to
check for more external calendars and invited some friends to use the app.
While typing the email address of a friend, a nice JavaScript auto-completion
drop-down appeared and showed me his email address. Google Calendar fetched
the list from the auto-complete list of my Gmail account. Nice! So far so
good, I started adding my upcoming events to the calendar. After adding an
event in Frankfurt (Main), I occasionally clicked on that event again and a
nice JavaScript bubble showed me some event details. Nothing special, right?
But there was also a link to a "map" in there, which opened me a new window to
Google Maps, showing the area where the event will take place.

It seems to me, that Google is really on the right way, supplying a really
useful set of web applications, interacting with each others and using really
cool AJAX stuff for presenting an absolutely convenient interface. This system
is really cool! :) Wanna keep track of my upcoming events? `Here you are`__!

.. __: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/schlitt@gmail.com/public/basic


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