Jesse Newland

I’ve hacked up a simple Javascript widget for everyone out there using myconfplan, Dr Nic Williams’ wonderful conference session planning tool. Nic recently added JSON and XML feeds to myconfplan, so this is a natural progression.

The XHTML generated by this widget is in hCalendar format, with separate events for each session. If you’re using a Microformats aware browser (or the wonderful microformats bookmarklet), you’ll be able to add my RailsConf sessions to your local calendaring app.

To display your conference session selections on your blog or website, insert these two lines of code:

<script src="http://files.jnewland.com/display_myconfplan.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="JSON_URL?callback=display_myconfplan" type="text/javascript"></script>

Replace JSON_URL with the URL to the JSON feed for one of your conferences. For example, to display my RailsConf 2007 sessions in my sidebar, I used this:

<script src="http://files.jnewland.com/display_myconfplan.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://myconfplan.com/users/jnewland/conferences/RailsConf2007.js?callback=display_myconfplan" type="text/javascript"></script>

Now seems like a good time to mention that I’ll be at RailsConf 2007 later this month in Portland, OR, and I couldn’t be more excited about it. You can view my session selections in the sidebar, on on myconfplan. Also, I’m staying at the Jupiter Hotel, which looks like a blast. Let me know if you’ll be there too!