The first Reno-Tahoe WordCamp was a great success and we are looking forward to an even better one this year. We have a lot of great things lined up but we can’t make the day a success without your help!

Are you a WordPress guru, blogger, podcaster, writer or community builder? If so, then you should consider submitting a proposal to present on  June 12th April 10th.

The official website for Reno-Tahoe WordCamp 2010 will be available soon with more information. If you have any questions, feel free to send an email to renotahoewordcamp@gmail.com.

We are looking forward to using this at Reno Collective for handling payment for daily drop-ins. Our monthly members can be setup for automatic payments but as of right now, our drop-in payments are mostly cash based.

This function will determine the day of the week for any date, including leap years. It can be cleaned up considerably but I figured I would share my geekery with you all in raw form. (Y3k bug: note the - 2000 to calculate the last two digits of the year.)

public String readableDay(Date dateToFormat)
{
	String dayOfWeekString = '';
	Integer day = dateToFormat.day();
	Integer month = dateToFormat.month();

	//Get last two digits of year
	Integer twoDigitYear = dateToFormat.year() - 2000;

	//Get first two digits of year
	String centuryYear = String.valueOf(deadline.year());
	centuryYear = centuryYear.substring(0,2);
	Integer centuryYearInt = Integer.valueOf(centuryYear);

	//Centuries: c = 2(3 - (century mod 4))
	//century = last two numbers of the year
	Integer modYear = math.mod(centuryYearInt, 4);
	modYear = 3 - modYear;
	Integer century = 2 * modYear;
	System.debug('Century: ' + century);

	//Years: y = year + (year / 4)
	Integer years = twoDigitYear + (twoDigitYear / 4);

	//Months (check if leap year)
	Integer monthResult = 0;

	if(month == 1)
	{
		if(math.mod(deadline.year(), 4) == 0)
			monthResult = 6;	//leap year
		else
			monthResult = 0;	//not leap year
	}
	else if(month == 2)
	{
		if(math.mod(deadline.year(), 4) == 0)
			monthResult = 2;	//leap year
		else
			monthResult = 3;	//not leap year
	}
	else if(month == 3)
		monthResult = 3;
	else if(month == 4)
		monthResult = 6;
	else if(month == 5)
		monthResult = 1;
	else if(month == 6)
		monthResult = 4;
	else if(month == 7)
		monthResult = 6;
	else if(month == 8)
		monthResult = 2;
	else if(month == 9)
		monthResult = 5;
	else if(month == 10)
		monthResult = 0;
	else if(month == 11)
		monthResult = 3;
	else if(month == 12)
		monthResult = 5;

	//Calculate Running Total
	Integer runningTotal = century + years + monthResult + day;

	//Calculate mod of week
	Integer dayOfWeek = math.mod(runningTotal, 7);

	//Day of Week Table
	if(dayOfWeek == 0)
		dayOfWeekString = 'Sunday';
	else if(dayOfWeek == 1)
		dayOfWeekString = 'Monday';
	else if(dayOfWeek == 2)
		dayOfWeekString = 'Tuesday';
	else if(dayOfWeek == 3)
		dayOfWeekString = 'Wednesday';
	else if(dayOfWeek == 4)
		dayOfWeekString = 'Thursday';
	else if(dayOfWeek == 5)
		dayOfWeekString = 'Friday';
	else if(dayOfWeek == 6)
		dayOfWeekString = 'Saturday';

	return dayOfWeekString;

}

In chronological order from September through today:

• I was working.
• Created an LLC called Reno Collective for a coworking space.
• Worked freelance on the side.
• Spent a lot of time building a social network for Vivanista.
• Started dating a wonderful and talented individual.
• Went to Burning Man again.
• Returned to Reno, ready to quit my job.
• Was laid off instead.
• Helped launch Vivanista.
• Started Lively Labs.
• Aforementioned relationship ended.
• Traveled to San Francisco for Dreamforce.
• Won a MacBook Air in the Dreamforce Hackathon.
• Business loan for Reno Collective denied.
• Thanksgiving in Las Vegas.
• Large client landed for Lively Labs.
• Signed a lease for Reno Collective at 250 Bell Street.
• Lively Labs is in full swing.
• Started winter training for spring season.
• Christmas holiday in Las Vegas.

Now those were all in past tense. The future holds a lot of opportunities and excitement.

For the near future of 2010, I have the following goals and/or plans so far:

• Reno Collective will open officially next week.
• Continue to grow Lively Labs with new talent.
• Launch some new products through Lively Labs.
• Continue to grow Reno Collective.
• Inspire and ignite Reno’s underground tech culture.
• Ride in the Chico Wildflower Century.
• Host Reno’s 2nd Reno-Tahoe WordCamp.
• Continue training for improved mind and body.
• Ride in the Death Ride.
• Celebrate my 23rd birthday.
• Ride in the Tour De Nez Century.
• <so much more to insert here>

I am very excited for what the new year has to offer. By no means, do I intend to limit myself to the list above, nor do I think I can anticipate what will happen in the months to come but I embrace it just the same.

Some Personal Planning for 2010

I came across this list for personal planning from Raol De Jongh, aka the Urban Ninja. Reflect on the items below and think about how these items may play into your goals for the future. What things drive your personal satisfaction and what things deter you from meeting your goals?

1. Big Picture (3-4 most important things)
2. Key Likes (3-4 areas that most drive my personal satisfaction)
3. Geography (where I will spend my time )
4. Body — key points for my body
5. Mind — key points for mind/knowledge/education
6. Spirit — when and how I will rest (from training, from work, from everything)
7. Places I want to visit
8. Personal Asset Allocation (today, five year, ten year)
9. Next twelve month expense projection
10. Next twelve month income projection
11. Personal Top Ten List — the ten most important things in my life that require focus, effort and time
12. Actions — what actions/habits are most important to me
13. Hazards — what items need to be watched to avoid roadblocks

Hope you have a happy new year!

Stargate Studios Reel
Stargate Studios’ demo reel – these are pretty amazing.

The core team consists of myself, Ed Adkins, and Chelsea Otakan and we will be providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) development and consulting using Salesforce.com, the Force.com platform, WordPress and the iPhone.

You can read more at Lively Labs: The Adventure Begins.

Our first product, Basejump, which I’ve talked a little bit about here will be available this month on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange and the Basecamp+Salesforce developer toolkit will be released to the developer community to allow for others to create their own integrations between the two applications.

I managed to sync my Google Calendar, iPhone, iCal on Mac, Salesforce calendar and Basecamp Milestones. Each one of the technologies supports integration without third-party applications except Salesforce, which I will show you below.

What You Will Be Able To Do

As illustrated above, you will have bidirectional integration with each system except Basecamp, which will only be imported into Google Calendar as a read-only calendar (fortunately that is all I really need for Basecamp).

You will be able to create/edit/delete events most efficiently between iCal, GCal, and iPhone, as if they were all the exact same calendar. This includes being able to invite people to those events.

How To Do It

We’re now able to do this thanks to a wonderful technology called CalDav which is supported by most of these platforms.

Setup Google Calendar

I use Google Apps on my own domain but this should work with the regular Google Calendar as well. Simply setup Google Calendar how you would like to use it.

Add Basecamp to Google Calendar

Login to your Basecamp and scroll down to the bottom of the page to find your global feeds. Right-click on the Global iCal Feed and copy the link address. Go into Google Calendar and in the left sidebar, click the Add+ link and select Add by Url. Paste in your URL and you can select whether or not you’d like to make it publicly accessible. I would only enable this if you want to publish your GCal on a website somewhere.

Add Salesforce to Google Calendar

For this integration, I had to use Appirio Sync for Google Calendar. It’s free on the AppExchange. Install the app inside of Salesforce and it will step you through the setup. You can select from bi-directional syncing or opt only for Salesforce to Google or Google to Salesforce functionality.

Syncing Google Calendar and the iPhone calendar (link)

You must have at least the 3.0 version of the iPhone firmware for this to work.

These instructions were provided by Google:

1. Open the Settings application on your device’s home screen.
2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Select Add Account…
4. Select Other.
5. Select Add CalDAV Account.
6. Enter your account information:
   • In the Server field, enter [ google.com ]
   • In the Username field, enter your full Google Account email address.
   • In the Password field, enter your Google Account password.
   • In the Description field, enter the name you’d like to appear on the account.
7. Select Next at the top of your screen.

After you’ve completed setup, open the Calendar application and syncing will automatically begin.

By default only your primary calendar will be synced to your device. You can sync additional calendars by visiting one of the following pages from any browser (via desktop or mobile device):

• For non-Google Apps users: https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect
• For Google Apps users: https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/YOUR DOMAIN NAME/iphoneselect

Select the calendars you’d like to sync, and click Save. The selected calendars will display on your device at the time of the next sync.

Syncing Google Calendar and Ical (link)

1. Open Apple iCal, go to Preferences and then the Accounts tab.
2. Click on the + button to add an account.
3. Under Account Information, enter your Google Account username and password.
4. Under Server Options, add the following URL:
   https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/YOUREMAIL@DOMAIN.COM/userReplace ‘youremail@domain.com’ with the email address that you use to log in to Calendar. Make sure to include the ‘@domain.com’ portion (which is @gmail.com for Gmail users) in this section.
5. Click Add.
6. Under the Delegation tab, select the calendars you’d like to add to iCal by checking the boxes next to them. You may need to hit refresh to get the latest list of calendars.
7. Add your email address to your Address Book card by selecting Add Email. You’ll be prompted to add your email address only if your address is not already in your Address Book.

You won’t be able to invite or email guests to Google Calendar events within iCal if your address is not in your Address Book.

Your Google Calendar will now appear in iCal’s list of calendars, and changes you make to your Google Calendar in iCal will be reflected when you sign in to Google Calendar.

Syncing <Insert Name Here> with Google Calendar

If you use a web application that has dates and events as an iCal feed that you can subscribe to, you can add any of them to Google Calendar.

A few things to note

It’s not perfect but it works for me. Now, I can use whichever calendar is on-hand at the time and it will almost always be reflected elsewhere because my Google Calendar is acting as the master calendar.

Someone recommended I check out Pocket Informant on the iPhone, which syncs with Google Calendar and looks like it has a better method for visualizing events and availability when you have a lot of calendars. I haven’t tried it yet as it costs $12 on the App Store but its worth taking a look at it if you use a lot of calendars.

Hope this helps!