Work at my job is either one of two things: large projects or small requests. Large projects involve working in teams of 5 to 10 people anywhere from a week to a month to get a market research survey set. Small requests are things like "how many records with office blahblahblah did we receive and load...and for the ones we received but didn't load, why weren't they loaded?"

There's a ton of small requests. Eight or nine a day, taking anywhere from five minutes to a half-hour to do. As I've taken on more and more responsibility, I have an increasing need for an application to help me manage my time, tasks, and projects. Mozilla Sunbird is such a program. I've taken to it pretty quickly. At my previous job, I used Outlook to help me keep track of things; Sunbird totally trumps Outlook in almost every way.

Since I have both business and personal events to track, I'm installing Sunbird on my home computer as well. But how do I synchronize the calendar events between my work and home computer? The WebDAV Apache module! It lets you publish and retrieve files to a server, including Sunbird calendar files. It also required me to SSH to my VPS/webserver and configure Apache and WebDAV with instructions outlined here.

If I seem excited, it's because I haven't SSH'ed to my VPS for about two months. I rarely have a need to. Also, it's kinda exciting that I can do things like this on the VPS that I couldn't have on my old, cheaper, basic webservers.