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 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 | 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 13, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
So next step is to get integration between My Book It and phone support. This has to be super smooth and work flawlessly but will form a key part of the site once complete. As I work through the integration I will post the steps and any issues that I ran into along...
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...
