Reading cron expressions

<p>Cron expressions are one of those things every developer needs but nobody memorizes. Bookmark this — you'll thank yourself later.</p> <h2> The Format </h2> <div

<p>You just Googled "cron every 2 weeks" because your clean-up job keeps running weekly, and the cron docs are silent on the whole idea. That's not your fault — the 5-field format

<h1> Stop hand-writing cron: build and parse it in Java </h1> <p>Quick, what does this fire?<br /> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight

<p>If you are dealing with a cron job that should have run by now but did not, you need a real cron job not running debug process, not guesswork.</p> <p>This is one of the most