by Dean | Jun 23, 2015 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
After much thought and consideration about the whole process and what needs to be done. I then wanted to start testing to see how this might start to look in the web app. This post will cover some of the thought and testing process I used to work through how the...
by Dean | Jun 21, 2015 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
I have recently been thinking about how to add time zone support into My Book It to allow it to expand beyond the local area. You see when My Book It started dealing with a time zone was easy. There was one. This was easy to deal with, as long as the time on the...
by Dean | Mar 8, 2015 | Common Sense, DNS, General IT, IT, Linux, NTP, Tutorial
Time is super important within a network, it is super difficult to try and line up errors when you have to take into account the differences in time between servers etc. This all came to a point the other day when I was trying to work out why my Guest Wifi Network...
by Dean | Nov 19, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Microsoft
While setting up a mixed environment server I was continually annoyed by the MAC machines adding those hidden files into the Windows File Shares. (You know the ones the .DS_Store, ._.DS_Store, .Trashes, ._Filename) After considering a few possibilities such as a...
by Dean | Oct 24, 2014 | Backup, Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, monitoring, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
The first thing that I wanted to do was to set-up a system that showed very quickly if the backups were running correctly. Originally checking backups was a tedious process. I would have to SSH to the box and check that the files were there, which was slow and...
by Dean | Oct 16, 2014 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, PHP, Programming
So I wanted to display a 4 column table as part of a site. The issue was that I didnt know how many items I was going to have to display. It may be 1, it may be 3, it may be 4 or 5 or even 24. I don like to repeat code unless I absolutely have to. So I wrote something...
