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12/02/2010 12:40 AM
 

After a long night's work, the website calendar now automatically feeds off of Blizzard's Armory calendar. It will fetch updates every 3 hours, and add / update events as required. Stale events (those that have already started) will be left alone for historical purposes.

Included in the raid events are lists of people who have signed up, been confirmed, are stand by, or are tentative for the raid, as of the most recent feed update. The in-game calendar will always be more current, but the website calendar shouldn't be lagging too far behind, so you can check raid info from work. As the enrollment lists change in game, they will change on the website as of the next update.

Also, for IE8 users, the list of upcoming events on the home page is a widget, so you can dock it to your widget bar in IE and check for upcoming events without even coming to the guild website! (Not that we don't want you to come to the guild website...)

(Note that if an event's name changes in game, it will show up on the website as a different event alongside the original event, because Blizzard's event ID for each event actually changes each time I fetch the data, which is a bug that has caused me some frustration before I realized what was going on. I now index the events based on start time and event name, instead of Blizzard's event ID.)

The full website calendar can be found here, and a list of the next 10 events from the calendar is shown on the home page.

 
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12/02/2010 2:40 AM
 

Update: Raid events are highlighted in Green, Birthdays / Anniversaries are highlighted in Yellow, and all other events (Holidays, Fishing, Weekend BG's) have no highlight.

 
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12/02/2010 3:44 PM
 

Two minor changes:

  1. If the event is scheduled during daylight saving time, the event times get adjusted accordingly, so the times will still match the server time.
  2. Events are now filtered out by their end time, not their start time, so events that have already started but are still currently happening are not filtered out just yet.
 
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03/09/2011 1:44 PM
 

Blizzard has now shut down their armoury calendar feed, as it was using the old armoury system.  I will recode the event importer to use the new feed when one is available, but in the meanwhile we'll still be showing upcoming in-game holidays.

 
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28/09/2011 2:28 AM
 

Blizzard has now confirmed that they're not going to include guild events or calendar information in their new data feeds.  I think I'm going to have to scrounge around and find another way to get the data.

 
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