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 | 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...
by Dean | Oct 14, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, monitoring, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security, Webtech
Now that My Book It is up and running, I have a lot of different things to keep track of. There are backups, maintenance tasks, student counts, invoicing, plus more to keep track of. Most of these systems are automated, they have their time to run and most of the time...
