Projects, interests, and pontifications of Joby Walker
A great video on efforts to reform one of the worst public schools in the US: Locke High. And of course in Washington State, there are no charter schools to act as an outlet for public school reform — though to be fair our schools are no where near as bad as Locke — but still unworthy of continued monopolization of education tax dollars.
So today at work, on the Techsupport list there was a long drawn out discussion about Calendars and MS Exchange (largely complaints about cost). Near the end of the thread, the MSCA team’s comparison of the features available to the various clients was included. I haven’t done any confirmation of their findings (largely because I have no access to do so and they are theoretically the local experts), but one of the identified differences with the (non IE) Web Client that jumped out at me as noteworthy:
No weekly or monthly calendar view
WHAT!?!?! How do you have a web-calendar product that can’t produce weekly or monthly views of your calendar? There are hundreds of free web calendaring projects and ALL of them have weekly and monthly views.
The entire Outlook Web Access team should hang their heads in shame for being unable to provide the most basic of features that twelve year olds with no development experience are capable of producing.
Currently, we use Oracle Calendar which is a mediocre product, but it does have Windows, Mac, and Linux clients in addition to a web client — and that web client (which pretty much blows) seems to be vastly superior to OWA. Originally, I didn’t care too much that I was going to be forced to use Exchange for calendaring because Oracle Calendar was not too useful, but facing a massive downgrade in functionality I’m none to happy.