by Dean | Sep 11, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IPv6, IT, Linux, Misc, Security
So now that my IPv6 setup is installed and has been working for a few weeks I thought it might be a good idea to go through a few gotcha’s. To be absolutely honest there was only one big one that kinda caused all my issues. (Which is actually kind of...
by Dean | Aug 9, 2015 | Crazy Idea, IT, Linux, Misc, PHP, Programming
So I started working on the Timezone support within My Book It. While in theory it all sounded great, in practice it was an absolute nightmare to try and get working by recording the offset and then working out the difference with the current offset. (As explained in...
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...
