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Care to give my employee scheduler a spin?

Oct 2, 2007 9:56AM PDT

Inspired by some call-center scheduling work I did in a previous job:

http://sporkforge.com:424/sched/emplsched/emplsched.php

Feel free to give it a spin & critique it. It will generate an optimal schedule given a specified workload. Web-based. (No ads or paid stuff, it's just my personal website._

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While free, is the source open so when you move on...
Oct 2, 2007 11:57PM PDT

Such a service is usually limited to it's owner's attention span.

If this is open source you have my attention.

Bob

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Sorry, not OSS
Oct 3, 2007 9:19AM PDT

Not open source, sorry, though it does run on an open-source OS! Happy

But it is available as long as the website exists, which I intend to be a long time. Plus it doesn't involve a huge investment on the part of the user, so if the website does perish, the user won't have really lost anything except a free service.

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This appears to be why many will pass up such things.
Oct 3, 2007 1:17PM PDT

The draw to a free web app that has no source (this has to do with what backup systems there are and more) can't be used in a process for any business.

You wouldn't use an online accounting system like this without the system available when it went offline? Maybe that's what's needed. An offline version.

Bob

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Sure, but...
Oct 3, 2007 1:33PM PDT

An accounting system is something critical to a business, where the business can't operate without it available, and that needs to be available & will be used frequently around the clock.

In the case of this tool, it would be used infrequently, and is not critical to a business's operation, as management can just generate a new schedule by hand, or use another method, though the new method would be more time consuming & would likely yield non-optimal schedules...

Anyways, I get your point. In any event, the tool is free & available for anybody who'd like to use it...

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Ok, you win...
May 2, 2008 4:05AM PDT