I'm having some difficulties creating a javascript appointment style calendar. While it does render, I know there's go to be a much more efficient way of doing it. Does anyone have a pattern they use for creating calendars? I will be using jQuery, but I don't want to use someone's calendar plugin as a) I haven't found one that works for what I need and b) I'm never going to get any better by using someone elses work.

Now, keep in mind my question is not about loading data in or getting repeat occurances or anything like that. I'm basically needing to know a good pattern on actually rendering the calendar markup.