Hi, I'm Jeremy Foo.
I write software to make lazy people lazier.

So I worked on another Mac app. This one does something I’ve wanted for a very long time, automated entry of timetable events into iCal for my University.

Its largely an endeavor very much for myself but I suppose it would make sense that others would find it useful. As usual, I’ve pushed the underlying code onto Github. Sharing is caring as they say.

In order to make anyone’s life easier when using this app, it takes some basic assumptions as well as trying to guess the rest. One good example is that it tries to find out the start of a semester from parsing the academic calendar of the school’s website. I sadly would need more practice in this screen scraping thing; current system is too rigid.

Still, it was good practice and adds to my experience in AppKit. I would say the transition from iOS to the Mac takes some getting used to as now you suddenly have so much more space and things to deal with. Would probably wanna work in this a little more before I really get down to doing what I’ve been planning for a very long time.

Till then.