I’ve taken my Flex cron editor and integrated it in a sample HTML form. Check out the sample here. We distinguish 3 steps in the setup of the form:
As soon as the Flex component is fully created, it sets JavaScript callbacks and it communicates its readiness to the HTML wrapper.
Then, the cron can be [...]
Cron4AS just got updated and improved. What’s the hell’s Cron4AS? It’s an ActionScript 3 package enabling stuff like the UNIX cron daemon, but it’s running in the Flash client. The code’s derived from Cron4J.
A cron daemon in general allows you to schedule tasks for execution, using a cron string to describe (complex) recurrence patterns. Normally, [...]
Look at that title… Now that’s a problem that gave me quite some grief for too many hours: the algorithm to efficiently merge prioritized lists of overlapping date ranges.
First, I thought I had it in a minute, but then I saw it was wrong. After quite some fruitless tweaking of my initial solution, I started [...]
To schedule jobs, I’ve found nothing better than using a Cron string, especially when you want to schedule repeating tasks. A Cron allows you to do complex scheduling like launch every weekday at 14h00, except in July and August. Check out this sample with a cron editor and a scheduler test (right-click and view source). [...]
