Oct 11, 2009 • After a stunning 55,000 downloads of vlaCalendar version 2 and two years after vlaCalendar version 1, the Vista-like Ajax Calendar is finally ready for its successor, Calender Eightysix!

Calendar Eightysix is an unobtrusive developer friendly javascript calendar and datepicker offering a better user experience for date related functionalities.

Sep 6, 2008 • The initial vlaCalendar was developed for use with database data. So the calendar uses AJAX calls to PHP parsed documents. This made the calendar only usable for users who have a PHP server.

Huy Do and I developed an extension that makes the vlaCalendar AJAX-less, and thus PHP-less: the client-side only extension for vlaCalendar v2.1.

Jul 2, 2008 • A new version of my Vista-like Ajax Calendar (vlaCalendar) has been released:
version 2.1 is made compatible with mootools installment, version 1.2, and offers some new features.

Jun 4, 2008 • At first I decided to make the vlaCalendar compatible with mootools 1.2 when its gets out of beta stage. But I've received lot of e-mails and comments from people wanting to use the calendar with the beta version, which made me decide to make vlaCalender v2 also compatible with mootools 1.2 beta2!

May 1, 2008 • A new version of the Vista-like Ajax Calendar (vlaCalendar) has been released!
The vlaCalendar is a unobtrusive web version of the slick and profound Windows Vista taskbar calendar, by use of the mootools javascript framework, AJAX, XHTML, CSS and PHP. Now with datepicker functionality and cleaner and more developer centered CSS, PHP and javascript code!

Apr 1, 2008 • As you may have noticed: the site has a new look. I've gotten tired of the old design, it's useless features and crappy code.

This new design has a reduction of 40% lines of HTML code and uses the lightweight mootools javascript framework, instead of the heavyweight Protoype, combined with script.aculo.us, framework.

Oct 17, 2007 • When I first saw the new Windows Vista taskbar calendar I was amazed by its slick look and diligence. I created a web version of the calender using the MooTools javascript framework, Ajax, XHTML, CSS and PHP. Key features: animations in transition, authentic Vista-look and quick navigation by jumping back and forth between months, years and decades without drop-down boxes.

Oct 17, 2007 • If you need recurring tasks, e.g. back upping your database every week or checking if a subscription has ended, and your (shared) hosting runs on a Windows server you probably don't have an option to run cron jobs. Unlike Linux servers, which do support this.