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 | Jan 19, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
So in my last post on this topic I had set-up the htaccess file that will automatically redirect every URI request in that folder to a generic PHP file. This file will then grab the page name and then present a ICS file back to the client that has been customised with...
by Dean | Jan 17, 2015 | Bind, Crazy Idea, DNS, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc
For testing on my home network, I wanted to run a windows domain so I could play with items such as VMWare, Backup Exec, and general AD items. So I split out my network into a new range and installed 2 servers. Created one as a File Store and Domain Controller, the...
by Dean | Jan 16, 2015 | General IT, IT, Misc, VDI, VMWare
Now that the appliance has been deployed and is working the next step is to perform the initial appliance configuration. This is pretty straight forward. To get started all you need to do is to point your browser to the URL of the appliance that was created in the...
