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 | May 16, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
When I first built the Weekly timetable in My Book It I was particularly proud of the achievement. The page draws a table that changes columns with every load, it automatically updates itself as changes are made to the database. It is probably the single most...
by Dean | Mar 28, 2015 | Crazy Idea, Email, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
Some time ago I talked about a way to “throttle” down email queues to try and prevent being blacklisted for sending hundred’s of legit emails in one batch. The process which can be seen in more depth here released emails over a period of time in...
by Dean | Mar 27, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
My next idea to help run My Book It is for the admin site (and potentially to build into the site itself if it is successful) is the ability for the site to be able to schedule and run complicated processes automatically. Sounds simple right, I want the system to be...
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...
