For years I have been trying to find an organizational scheme which works for me. I've tried digital calendars (Google Calendar, My WebCal at work, Chandler, Sunbird) to no avail as of yet. I've played around with Remember the Milk (which is a pretty cool app in and of itself...) but I never quite got in the groove of actually using ...
Had an interesting discussion with some colleagues about the best scheduling strategies for realtime tasks, but not everyone had a good understanding of the common or useful scheduling strategies. For your answer, please choose one strategy and go over it in some detail, rather than giving a little info on several strategies. If you ha...
My biggest concern is ease of use, and nothing beats a google spreadsheet or document (Except maybe Office). At some point, the free-form nature of the formats starts to cause a problem. Specifically, I have the same conceptual data split up between two documents. This is done because both provide useful views of the data. (Note that th...
Greetings, I work in a very small shop (2 people), and since I started a few months back we have been relying on Windows Scheduled tasks. Finally, I've decided I've had enough grief with some of its inabilities such as No logs that I can find except on a domain level (inaccessible to machine admins who aren't domain admins) No alerti...
What is a good open-source alternative to Microsoft Project? Mac OS-X or Linux binaries available would be a huge plus. ...
I have a site on my webhotel I would like to run some scheduled tasks on. What methods of achieving this would you recommend? What I’ve thought out so far is having a script included in the top of every page and then let this script check whether it’s time to run this job or not. This is just a quick example of what I was thinking abou...
A Google search turned up software that performs the same functions as cron, but nothing built into Windows. I'm running Windows XP Professional, but advice for any version of Windows would be potentially helpful to someone. EDIT: Is there also a way to invoke this feature (which based on answers is called the Task Scheduler) programat...
We are a three man programming team with a huge scheduling problem. We need some software to help us manage this problem. We could build this software ourselves but we would rather use somebody else’s brilliant solution. Does anyone out there know of one??? Here’s the problem. Let’s start with a clean slate. A programmer in the compa...
I'm making a simple scheduler with C# in .Net. All it does is execute a simple select statement on a table in a SQL Server DB once per minute (this does not need to scale or anything... the db does not have a high load). Here is my proposed implementation: static void Main(string[] args) { while (true) { System.Threadi...
I want to use a timer in my simple .Net application written in C#. The only one I can find is the Windows.Forms.Timer class. I don't want to reference this namespace just for my console app. Is there a C# Timer (or Timer like) class for use in Console apps? ...
I am about to join a new software team midway through a project. They are using ExtremePlanner to track their progress. While they tracking tasks completed, they are not tracking how the estimated size of the project is changing over time. In the short time I have been monitoring the project this estimate has changed faster than the co...
We're thinking about using the rufus-scheduler gem on a Ruby on Rails project to do regular monitoring of a communication queue. Has anyone have experience using this gem on a Rails project? Anyone have strong preferences of an alternative scheduler? ...
I am writing Eclipse plugins where there are quite a few running jobs. In some cases, I want the job to "sleep" for a while at the current point of execution and continue from that spot (rather than reschedule the job and start it from scratch). My understanding is that using Thread.sleep within Eclipse jobs is quite deprecated. Is th...
Title sums it up, I know little about how I will do this. See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/120228/php-running-scheduled-jobs-cron-jobs ...
We are embarking on some R&D for a staff rostering system, and I know that there are some suggested algorithms such as the memetic algorithm etc., but I cannot find any additional information on the web. Does anyone know any research journals, or pseudocode out there which better explains these algorithms? Thanks, Devan ...
This is a problem I've had on my mind for a long time. Being the son of a teacher and a programmer, it occurred to me early on... but I still haven't found a solution for it. So this is the problem. One needs to create a time schedule for a school, using some constraints. These are generally divided in two categories: Sanity Checks ...
I would like to setup an open source solution for calendaring in a medium sized enterprise. We would be using this from thunderbird (lightning add-on), Microsoft outlook. I want to see others' free/busy schedule, invite them to meetings etc. It would be really nice if I could have a calendar for resources like conference room, projector...
What is the best way to generate and maintain several ranking lists for the home page of a website/webapp? e.g. hot posts, most recent posts, most comments, most consecutive wins etc. Currently, I'm thinking about using a cron job scheduler to run the queries to gather the statistics, run an algorithm on the statistics and then finally ...
I'm using Cocoon and want to store the jobs and triggers for the quartz scheduler in the database so they are persisted. I can see where I need to make the change in cocoon.xconf but I can't find much on how to configure the datasource etc. How do I configure this to use our existing (postgres) database? ...
I have to develop a system to monitor the generation/transmission of reports. System data will be stored in database tables (Sybase) Reports will be generated with different schedules ("mon-fri 10pm", "sat 5am", "1st day of the month", etc.) System will just monitor that the reports were created. It will not create the reports itself....