The 3D Web Coder

Hackergarten, Chromium and Markdown

I visited the August meetup of the Basel Hackergarten last Tuesday, made a small contribution or two and learned several interesting new things: Hackergarten Angular web page achievements popup. Chromium browser. AsciiDoc and Markdown. Every Hackergarten meetup starts with a brainstorming session to determine a list of potential achievable work tasks. Participants then vote for the projects they would like to join. I ended up with the little group around ... Read more →

Adding GCal Entries Using Google Calendar API

Today I complete my discussion of a Python script using the Google Calendar API to parse events from a text-based desktop calendar file and push them to the cloud for global access. Google OAuth credential handling. Date and time parsing and formatting. Adding a calendar event. Mainline. GitHub pages. GitHub repository. Google OAuth Credential Handling Pretty interesting system... The following code snippets take you to a login page in your browser, prompting you to identify yourself manually in the user... Read more →

Populate GCal Using Google Calendar API

Today I present a Python script using the Google Calendar API to read events from my text-based desktop calendar and push them to the cloud for global access. I was busy last week with the Revit API and The Building Coder, after returning from my vacation and lots of nice places and activities in Ticino, Mont Blanc, and the French Jura. Now I finally got to look at something not related to the Revit API, or to any other CAD... Read more →