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...
by Dean | Apr 3, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security, Webtech
One of the big things I wanted to be able to do was to host my own websites etc from my test gear. This will allow me to run different configurations and be able to optimize some websites in terms of automatic setup etc. There was only one problem, I am on a home ADSL...
by Dean | Mar 22, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
So my web hosting is coming up for renewal shortly and I have been considering what options I have in terms of renewing it given the creation of My Book It. I need something fairly flexible and considered the option to migrate to a VPS type solution. But before I move...
by Dean | Feb 6, 2014 | General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
So the addition of the permissions are all working. The users have permissions, the groups have permissions we have lots of permissions in the database. So how do we use them? To do this we first need to get the permissions out of the database and into a format that I...
by Dean | Feb 4, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
Turns out that the previous idea of how to do the permissions was going to end up being a lot and lot of work and probably terribly difficult to maintain and expand. So another way was needed. After a few days of thinking and playing with variable variables. (Which...
