Best way to develop/manage/design recurring tasks/calendar

Question

An example of what I\'m talking about is similar to Google Calendar. When a new recurring task is created.

After creating the recurring task \"template\" - which all of

Answer 1

I went through the same problem a while back and instead of reinventing the wheel, I used Google Calendar APIs. (http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/data/2.0/developers_guide.html)

You create a Google Account and access the calendar information. There are APIs to create/edit/delete a recurring entry. Also, you can specify a date/time information and query for matching events.

When you create an event on Google Calendar, you will receive a token/id which you can store in your own database and reference it within the context of the application.