Print a handy 2015 wall calendar built with web components

If you hold or participate in project management discussions, consider printing out this handy Printable Wall Calendar that was quickly built with web components.

Jan constructed the original version of this calendar years ago to answer to two simple calendar questions that often come up in planning discussions:

1. On which day of the week will a given date fall? If some asks, “Can you ship this on June 15?”, you often want to know, “Well, what day of the week is that? Is that even a weekday?”
2. What’s the date of a given day of the week? Maybe your agile development group likes to make big releases on Mondays. If you think you might release something two Mondays from now, what date is that?

You can answer these questions by pulling out your phone, but sometimes paper is faster than gadgets. A wall calendar can answer these questions nearly instantly — as long as the calendar is well designed for this purpose. The problem is that most wall calendars have way too much clutter. They’re designed for a previous era in which people wrote critical scheduling information on a paper wall calendar. No one does that now. If instead you just want a calendar to answer the questions above, its design can be much simpler. A simpler design means the actual calendar dates can be bigger and easier to read across a room.

This calendar was built using the basic-calendar-month component, which takes care of all the date math, as well as handling localized month and day names for a huge number of languages and regional preferences. To build a year calendar was a simple matter of slapping 12 of these month calendars together and applying some styling.