by Dean | May 22, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Error, General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Webtech
For the web applications I build a lot of them want to sent out an email to their users for many different reasons. (All these reasons are legitimate, for example sending our a link to allow the users to login, reminders about upcoming classes etc) This can generate a...
by Dean | May 21, 2014 | Error, Exchange, General IT, IT, Microsoft
Had a customer who is using Exchange 365 as their mail host. All of a sudden people who they were emailing started to receive the winmail.dat attachments instead of the correct email. Now we all know that winmail.dat in incompatible message formats (See KB: 278061) in...
by Dean | May 3, 2014 | Crazy Idea, DNS, General IT, IT, Linux, Tutorial
So now that I have my web servers all setup and working I need a way to be able to define URI’s internally (such as FTP, SSH etc) I also wanted to be able to access these sites internally and my modem will not allow hairpin routing so I needed something to...
by Dean | Apr 16, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation, Webtech
Now that I have my load balances etc all installed and running (aka proxy), and the box for general websites is running smoothly, it is time to setup a LAMP server that I can customize for the My Book It software. What I want to be able to do is from a website...
by Dean | Apr 12, 2014 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Misc, Virtualisation
Here are some of my notes in relation to assessing a site when it comes to VMWare and visualization in general. CPU The following items need to be taken into consideration in relation to CPU when it comes to visualization. CPU Speed (in MHz) Usage (Processor(_Total\%...
by Dean | Apr 7, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Webtech
Now that I have all of the access infrastructure in place (The test machine, remote access and the incoming proxy) I can get started on setting up the servers do perform other items. One that I was very keen about was moving some of my websites onto this equipment to...
