πŸ“… 2025-05-25 β€” Session: Refactored Google Calendar Integration and Error Handling

πŸ•’ 15:55–19:30
🏷️ Labels: Google Calendar, Python, Automation, Error Handling, Integration
πŸ“‚ Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The goal of this session was to enhance the integration of structured session logs into Google Calendar, improve error handling, and ensure data consistency.

Key Activities

  • Explored AutoMQ’s relevance to current projects, focusing on cloud-native messaging systems.
  • Addressed Jupyter Notebook errors and pandas CSV export issues.
  • Refactored enum lists and JSON schemas for clarity and scalability.
  • Developed a Python script for batch uploading events to Google Calendar, including error handling and deduplication strategies.
  • Improved Markdown formatting for Google Calendar descriptions.

Achievements

  • Successfully refactored the configuration loading logic for Google Calendar API, transitioning from YAML to environment variables.
  • Implemented enhanced error handling in Google Calendar event insertion scripts.
  • Developed a deduplication strategy using iCalUID to prevent duplicate events.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing of the Google Calendar integration scripts to ensure robustness.
  • Exploration of additional automation opportunities for calendar management.