Re: right handheld computer for a Debian user?
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:43:05PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Yup. You can pretty much kiss ease-of-use goodbye on any device
> running Windows when it comes to handhelds, anyway, when it comes time
> to synch.
I bought this app called PocketOutlook, which is a C# api to create
or modify tasks, contacts, appointments, and wrote a C# app to sync
from XML. On the Linux side of things my PIM data was already
stored in XML (another custom app I wrote - tupim - on sf.net)
so I wrote an xsl stylesheet, and wrapped it in a bash script.
I use vsftp and bluez-utils and pand to set up an ip address over
bluetooth, put the files I want to sync in an ftp dir, then run
the C# app on the handheld. It slurps down the files, deletes/
recreates all the data, uploads whatever, logs stuff, shuts down.
Then on the Linux side again I run the script to shut everything
down and log stuff. Works great.
The key takeaways are : (1) get your PIM data in XML, (2) use
C#/PocketOutlook on the handheld to write your own sync app.
(You'll need to d/l your own C# ftp client implementation --
it's out there, GPL. Look for it).
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