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 | 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 | Oct 16, 2014 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, PHP, Programming
So I wanted to display a 4 column table as part of a site. The issue was that I didnt know how many items I was going to have to display. It may be 1, it may be 3, it may be 4 or 5 or even 24. I don like to repeat code unless I absolutely have to. So I wrote something...
