• HOWTO: setting up DAViCal on CentOS 5.5

    Posted on February 19th, 2011 Nattl 1 comment

    I use calendars a lot: I use MS Exchange at work which I can also access with my iPhone. At home I use the Gmail calendar service which also works quite well with Apples iCal and the iPhone. However I always disliked the idea that Google knows all about my private schedules and appointments. So I decided to setup my own calendar service on a CentOS server. There are several iCalendar projects available, some of them open source, others commercial. As it was clear I would only go with an open source project I looked at several candidates and then I found out about DAViCal, a php/postgresql based service that looked good enough to give it a try.

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  • Howto set shell-environment variables on Mac OSX 10.5

    Posted on April 12th, 2009 Nattl 10 comments

    From time to time I want to install a command line utility and then I always have the problem how to set the correct environment variables. Ok, googling for the terms “mac osx environment variable set” usually helps. But every time I spent at least an hour playing around, searching like made before I can use my command-line stuff. The funny thing is that this has happened several times in the past and each time I somehow forgot how to define the environment variables ( that’s so me…). But this time things will be different as I write it down in my own blog. So the next time I can google myself and find out about how to do it ;) .

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