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Managing staff holidays online with WhosOff

whosoff staff holiday managementWhosOff takes some of the stress and mess that can occur when managing staff holidays. It's a free service that is pretty easy to set up, unless you have a few hundred employees to manage.

When staff names are entered into the online system together with their vacation entitlements, its WhosOff turn to work. Managers and staff are sent notifications by email when employees request leave dates, Managers then jump into the system and can either approve or decline the requests.

WhosOff can also track sickness, national holidays, and does use SSL to ensure the security of the website.

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Filed under: Developer, Internet, Google

Using Google Accounts for Single Sign-On

Google TalkDeveloping a web service and don't want to manage your own authentication? Use Google's! That's the gist of this article, which describes how to use SSL and XMPP to authenticate your users against Google's database of users in the same way Google Talk does. The article uses as an example Zooomr, an interesting service made more interesting by the fact that it allows authentication from a number of outside sources, including Google, OpenID, and Meetro. The method isn't anything special, but it is an interesting way to get things done.

[Via O'Reilly Radar]

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