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 | 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...
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...