I am looking for a hosting provider with Tomcat support. I have Dreamhost right now, which I like and which suits all of my needs except my need for Tomcat (and my own JVM image) and my want for PostgreSQL. My plan is to keep Dreamhost, which is about $10 per month, and paid up for a while besides, and get another host in the same price range.

I am interested in aggregating calendars in WordPress. Mostly these will be local calendars, and I will be writing custom scraping engines and then posting the iCalendar data. (I will also import from Google calendar.)

What follows was written quickly, and all the thought that went into it went in while I was writing. Thus there’s not much thought… But in the interest of publish early, publish often, I am posting it anyway.

I realize there will be a bit of an issue with identifying unique events, but I will make my best guess. I will assign a URI. Anyway, once I have iCal feeds I am interested in adding metadata / to each calendar element, and sticking the whole thing on my wordpress blog. I want people to be able to comment on each event, so…these things will be exposed as blog postings.

I’m going to set this up at events.ithacablogs.com. The engine is going to be Bedework, for which I need to shell out for a Tomcat hosting provider. (Dreamhost is a great hosting provider with a lot of flexibility, but they don’t support Tomcat or PostgreSQL. The other problem with Dreamhost is the load on their serrvers seems high.) Unfortunately there’s no good PHP / MySQL calendar engine available, which would be a killer app.

Update: on second thought, I think that a digg-like interface is needed to seperate the really really boring events from the rest of the stuff. So I am going to work with the Upcoming.org API to create a WordPress plugin.