by Dean | Apr 17, 2016 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, PHP
So in my last post I setup and configured EHCP onto a Raspberry Pi. I thought this would be a good and easy way to run a web server from home. The installation was fairly straight forward and it all seemed like it was good except I remembered that I work in IT and I...
by Dean | Apr 8, 2016 | General IT, IT, Linux, MySQL, PHP
It has been a while since I have put a post onto here so I thought I would get back into it by installing EHCP onto a raspberry pi. (The original model B). I figured that the specs are not much worse off then a cheap web host and it would be a good idea to replace my...
by Dean | Aug 9, 2015 | Crazy Idea, IT, Linux, Misc, PHP, Programming
So I started working on the Timezone support within My Book It. While in theory it all sounded great, in practice it was an absolute nightmare to try and get working by recording the offset and then working out the difference with the current offset. (As explained in...
by Dean | Jun 23, 2015 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
After much thought and consideration about the whole process and what needs to be done. I then wanted to start testing to see how this might start to look in the web app. This post will cover some of the thought and testing process I used to work through how the...
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...
