The long awaited new ver­sion of MyGoogle­Cal is here. It sup­ports the new AJAX-enabled Javascript method Google switched to last month. As a bonus, the new ver­sion has native sup­port for mul­ti­ple cal­en­dars each with their own col­ors! Other changes to the code include offi­cially switch­ing from fopen to curl to retrieve the data. Fur­ther­more, the code replaces much less HTML since it’s encap­su­lated in Javascript. With­out fur­ther ado…

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My how-to for restyling Google Cal­en­dar is by far this blog’s most pop­u­lar post so far. Right from the start, peo­ple had requested that I adjust the code to accom­mo­date Google Calendar’s mini-mode. It cer­tainly was pos­si­ble using the tech­nique I used, but it did break the agenda which was flaky to begin with given the fact the fea­ture was exper­i­men­tal. Every once in a while, I’d check on the sta­bil­ity of mini-mode to deter­mine if it was ripe for some hack­ing. Then one day the mode sim­ply didn’t work any­more. It was weird, but after fur­ther research I found out why. Mini-mode was super­seded by the Google Cal­en­dar Gad­get. The con­fig­u­ra­tion form does pro­vide some cus­tomiza­tion of the style, but it is cer­tainly lim­ited. So just like before, I poked and prod­ded the code until I was able to find the means to restyle the gadget.

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I had sug­gested that my com­pany use Google Cal­en­dar to pub­lish events. It’s easy, it can be made pub­lic and share­able, and it beats fig­ur­ing out how to pub­lish an Outlook/Exchange cal­en­dar on the web. (From what I’ve read about Google Cal­en­dar, you can pub­lish mul­ti­ple cal­en­dars indi­vid­u­ally con­trol­ling the level of pri­vacy and publicity—ooo, maybe we can migrate away from Exchange…) Yet, the coolest part about Google Cal­en­dar is that you can embed it in your web page using an iframe which Google pro­vides a handy-dandy con­fig­u­ra­tor to gen­er­ate the HTML. The worst part about Google Cal­en­dar is that you embed it in your web page using an iframe.

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