ideas

Snipsnap Birthday Plugin

I use to forget birthdays… And: I don't like to have them in some odd mobile device as this one is thrown away every couple of years. Why not reminding myself by email?

Consider:

• "Thou shalt not spawn own threads in J2EE." - Respecting this prevents an automatic check at dawn to send out the reminder emails. Well, for my part I could rely on the birthday macro to be called regularly as a cronjob is checking whether my site works or not. Therefore the macro might get a kick early at night automatically. However, a Timer would be nice to use anyway - consider it.
• Don't publish other peoples email addresses with such a tool, they might not like it :-) Already the name is "on the limit" but with firstnames or "pet names" this should do. And a workaround might be not to render the content of the birthday list but only display it's content in edit mode (assuming that editing needs some more rights - what is not the case if the wiki is purely public).