CGI Calendar / News: Recent posts

Occassionally a CGI Calendar user will email me a homegrown enhancement to the program, most often a new translation. In the past I incorporated these enhancements or translations into the official code base, checking them into CVS and including them as part of an official release of CGI Calendar.

Since I do not anticipate producing future revisions to CGI Calendar, I have created a new release package called "user contributions". These enhancements come directly from users of CGI Calendar and have not been tested, verified, or otherwise endorsed by me. If they provide some functionality that you're interested in, you may choose to download and integrate the enhancements manually. You do so at your own risk. ... read more

CGI Calendar, approaching its 10th year in development, has now been downloaded over 10,000 times since moving to sourceforge.net less than three years ago. I'd conservatively guesstimate that CGI Calendar was downloaded in the neighborhood of 25,000 times in the seven years before it moved to sourceforge.net.

Thanks to everyone who's helped make CGI Calendar such a success!

CGI Calendar 3.0 has finally been released. A significant upgrade from 2.8, 3.0 adds the following new features:

-Repeating events
-Improved management of multiple calendars (now called groups)
-Web-based administration
-Ability to enable or disable both group and multilingual functionality

The complete documentation for and a demo of CGI Calendar 3.0 is available at the project website, http://cgicalendar.sf.net.

A couple of people have asked me about the status of the 3.0 release for CGI Calendar. There's good news and bad news. And a call for help!

The good news: I did manage to implement a few new featurse a few months back, and at least superficially they seem to work well.

The bad news: I have not touched the codebase since then, and probably will not again for another several months. I have a special (non-coding) project to which I'm devoting a large portion of my free time.... read more

CGI Calendar has been downloaded over 3300 times in its first full year hosted on sourceforge.net. The year has seen a lot of improvements to CGI Calendar, including bug fixes, functionality enhancements, and multilingual capability.

CGI Calendar 2.7 has been officially released. See http://cgicalendar.sourceforge.net for complete details.
This version of the calendar introduces multi-lingual capability. Delivered translations include English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Japanese, and Esperanto. If you're interested in providing an additional translation, please let me know. Additional translations will be released as they become available.... read more

CGI Calendar has only been hosted on sourceforge.net for 100 days, and already we've had CGI Calendar downloaded 1000 times!

Thank you to those of you who use CGI Calendar and continue making great suggestions for its continued enhancement.

After seven years as an open-source program, CGI Calendar is taking that concept to the next level. On August 24, 2004, CGI Calendar was established as a project on the popular open-source development website Sourceforge.Net.

Moving CGI Calendar to Sourceforge will allow other developers to more easily participate and collaborate on development of CGI Calendar, increasing innovation and quality in the product. It will also make it easier for users of CGI Calendar to become aware of new releases, to get help, to submit requests for new features, and to report bugs.... read more