A number of times clients ask how I track my time. And each time I have to explain that I built some software specifically to meet my needs. The software is a continual work in progress, the codebase is ancient and I hate working with it, although I still actively use it to track… Read More »
Been awhile since I’ve posted anything here. I’ve been busy lately working hard to get my latest web app online. Have a look and let me know what you think. If you want to try it out you’ll get a $15 free credit, good for a few months of service for a single site. Any… Read More »
Shoutcast logs can be pretty big, if you don’t read them in line by line there is a fair chance of getting an out of memory error. The following function getShoutcastBW(logfile) simply returns the number of bytes streamed today out of the log. Good for calculating bandwidth. function my_strip($start,$end,$total){ $total = stristr($total,$start); $f2 = stristr($total,$end);… Read More »
I have a client who routinely deploys cloud servers and they like ISPConfig installed to serve as a hosting control panel. ISPConfig is great for your average customer to manage their server or even for a small hosting company to manage their servers. It is a cost effective alternative to commercial solutions like Plesk and… Read More »
Need A new password? Here is a randomly generated one: Here is the PHP code to generate these passwords: function genRandomString($length) { $length = 10; $characters = ‘123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopq3stuvwxyz!^+.?’; $string = “”; for ($p = 0; $p < $length; $p++) { $string .= $characters[mt_rand(0, strlen($characters))]; } return $string; }
There are a few different apps in the app store that turns your iPhone into a storage device. I find this one pretty convenient. Sick of carrying around a memory stick to transport your files? This could be a simple solution. If you’d like to take advantage of all of the space on your iPod… Read More »
I was recently tasked with a small project that had to pull commit logs from various subversion servers and repositories and display them on a web page. The process was a lot simplier than I first anticipated. Hopefully someone else will find this useful. This php code snippet requires that the server have SHELL_EXEC()… Read More »
While I would never recommend running a subversion server on anything but a Linux machine, I was recently asked to write a tutorial on doing so on a Windows based machine. Installing a subversion server on windows can be a daunting task. Luckily a project has come forth to make that task significantly easier called… Read More »
I just uploaded some minor updates to my free FTP client for windows. Back in the 90s I fell in love with WS-FTP, over time their UI changed a lot and I hated it, and didn’t see a reason to continue paying for it. So I wrote my own clone that had a… Read More »