by Dean | Sep 21, 2014 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
The goal of My Book It is to be highly automated so that it can run with minimal human interaction. It needs to run in this manner as I do not have enough time for it to be a labour intensive job. So with that in mind I wanted to automate as much of the student...
by Dean | Sep 11, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Uncategorized, Webtech
When I was recently showing the Booking System to a customer they asked about a really handy feature. The feature request was for the ability for them to set a Sites Terms and Conditions and then have customers agree to this before it will allow them to use the site....
by Dean | Aug 2, 2014 | Backup, Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, MySQL, Programming
So now that I have all of the systems setup and running for my websites, I needed a way to back up the data on a regular basis. There are of course many backup applications that you could use but I wanted something easy and cheap. I hunted around the internet for a...
by Dean | May 25, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Error, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Programming, Webtech
As we saw in part 1, I was experiencing timeouts on scripts that sent a large number of legitimate messages out from php mailer. This appeared to be related to the web hosting company throttling the email rate. To still be able to send these messages out a setup was...
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 | 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...
