Difference between revisions of "Scheduling"

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Scheduling involves dividing up the 365 days/12 months in a year, 28-31 days per month, and 24hrs in per day into timeslots, within which to place various meetings, arrangements, appointments and plans. In computer systems, schedulers can run repetitive tasks (as in a daily back up) to save time from perform tedious daily activities.

Timezones

Differences in timezones typically need to be taken into consideration in scheduling people (and possibly even machines/server) for performing a certain activity (such as participating in a conference/meeting, or, crunching some important numbers or fetching some data).

• The TimezoneConverter: http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ ^[1]
• Timezone Conversion Mac Widget: http://www.timothyarmes.com/blog/2010/07/timezone-conversion/

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Tools

• MONIT - Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system: http://mmonit.com/monit/
• Tungle Me - personal calendar/appointment scheduling: http://tungle.me (now owned by RIM)

AJAX

• dhtmlxScheduler - Ajax Events Calendar/Scheduler: http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxScheduler/^[3]
• jQuery Calendar: http://github.com/robmonie/jquery-week-calendar^[4]

JAVA

• Quartz: http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/
• Quartz scheduler example: http://www.mkyong.com/java/quartz-scheduler-example/
• Spring + Quartz scheduler example: http://www.mkyong.com/spring/spring-quartz-scheduler-example/
• Flux - Java Job Scheduler (commercial): http://fluxcorp.com/java-api.html

PHP

• PHP Classes - Appointment Calendar: http://www.phpclasses.org/package/6066-PHP-Manage-scheduled-appointments.html
• phpJobScheduler: http://www.phpjobscheduler.co.uk/
• MySQL Scheduler: http://phpro.org/tutorials/MySQL-Scheduler.html
• PHP Classes - Round robin tournament scheduler: http://www.phpclasses.org/package/4719-PHP-Schedule-a-round-robin-games-tournament.html

Python

• pyschedule: http://code.google.com/p/pyschedule/
• pytaskscheduler: http://ostatic.com/pytaskscheduler

C

• Shell-based Cron job

Tutorials

• The Factory - A simple CRON Tutorial.: http://www.thefactory.ro/support/faq/a-simple-cron-tutorial.html

External Links

• wikipedia: Task Scheduler
• How to use the Windows Task Scheduler : http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm
• Using Windows XP Task Scheduler to Automate an FTP Upload: http://www.isinc.com/2008/11/19/using-windows-xp-task-scheduler-to-automate-an-ftp-upload/
• Linux Job Scheduling: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4087
• Using Windows Task Scheduler to put PCs into standby or hibernate mode: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_power_mgt_wts
• Using SQL to Find Unscheduled Hours: http://www.sectorfej.net/2010/05/15/using-sql-to-find-unscheduled-hours/

References

1. ↑ Timezone Converter -- weekend challenge: http://thetimezoneconverter.com/weekend-challenge.html
2. ↑ JetLag Calculator (by Timezones crossed): http://www.bodyclock.com/
3. ↑ dhtmlxScheduler DEMO: http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxScheduler/sample_recurring.html
4. ↑ jQuery Calendar DEMO: http://jquery-week-calendar.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jquery.weekcalendar/full_demo/weekcalendar_full_demo.html

See Also

Calendar