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    <p>I spent some of my free time over the past few weeks trying to get the Calendar app on my Android phone to run with a non-Google and non-MS-Exchange account (see <a href="./pimp-my-calendar-part-1.html">part 1</a>, <a href="./pimp-my-calendar-part-2.html">part 2</a>, <a href="./pimp-my-calendar-part-3.html">part 3</a>, <a href="./pimp-my-calendar-part-4.html">part 4</a> and <a href="./pimp-my-calendar-part-5.html">part 5</a>). As with my <a href="./the-battle-of-the-c5280-aftermath.html">printer woes</a>, it turned out to be an enlightening excercise. I ended up running the <a href="http://radicale.org/">Radicale</a> CALDav server on my home server and Marten Gajda's <a href="http://dmfs.org/caldav/">CalDAV adapter</a> on the little machine. I discovered fun facts about Android and its development tools along the way (the highlight was discovering that changing the minimum API level in Eclipse ADT fails to trigger a re-build).</p>
<p>As for the lessons learned, I guess there is a balance to be struck when troubleshooting a technical issue. One approach involves poking and prodding the system, observing responses and formulating hypotheses. Another option is to study information <em>about</em> the system - source code, documentation, online forums and other resources. Combining these modes optimally is rather delicate and I do tend to err on the side of experimentation. The knowledge it yields may be overly specific and not very reusable but the process fosters a problem-solving mind-set that comes in handy in other situations as well. Besides, documentation may be out of date and, <a href="./pimp-my-calendar-part-4.html">as we've seen</a>, even source code may not be quite what it seems. In fact, what hindered me in resolving the calendaring problem was that I failed to recognize the extent of the system I was working with - namely that it included the development environment.</p>
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