A big part of the web applications I build, is usually some sort of jobs management. Most functionality is triggered based upon user generated events. However there are many times where I need to schedule something as a job.
I run most of my web applications on a Windows 2008 server, this is the platform I'm moskinlane-productions2o I use the task scheduler built into the platform.
When I migrate applications off my native development environment I need a better way to trigger scheduled jobs.
I found
Moment, a Software as a Service (SaaS) for scheduling jobs. They provide a simple
RESTful API for scheduling HTTP based jobs you need to run.
I tend to just create my jobs as simple
PHP scripts and expose them at a non-indexed public URL. So Moment is a great solution.
Its good to see useful utility APIs that everyone can use, doing one thing, and doing it well!
