Ryans Electronic Diary Sheet 1.2.1

Ryans Electronic Diary Sheet (aka RyansEDS) is a web-based Perl application which allows members of an organization (typically staff) to inform each other of their proposed whereabouts. The project is designed to be a simple shared calendaring application which does require complex (and often proprietary) client/server software.
Like its sister application Ryans In/Out Board it was written to fulfil a need at my employer Contact a Family. Staff needed a simple centralised way to let each other know when they would be out of the office rather than get into the complexities of sharing calendars.
The diary sheet works on a week by week basis and stores its data accordingly. A shell script (bacth file) is supplied which (when run as a scheduled event/cron job) will clear out data older that your chosen limit. Thus data storage is kept to a minimum. The diary sheet itself also has a feature will prevent users from going too far forward or backward.
Main features:
- Simple to use and administer
- Week to a screen view
- Users can be grouped into (colour coded) departments - current users department shown at top
- User aliases permit users to have friendly names on the diary sheet whilst logging in with more secure names 1
- No database required - uses simple text files for storage
- Tidies up after itself - deletes old storage files 2.
- No client application required - save for a web browser
- Easily configurable styles - all through the config file no HTML/CSS skills required.
- Allows additional comments/notes to be linked from the main diary sheet view
- Cross platform - runs on any browser and a range of server OSs.
- W3C compliant and fully accessible HTML output
- Suitable for small-medium installations (< 100 users)