I have been really busy working and then doing some more work … Working 6 nights a week at The Tango and all the computer work as well … But a couple things that happened since my last entry over a month ago are this; I renewed my T1 contract for another 3 years … Savvis has been a great provider and has served me much better than Fast.Net ever did … In fact, Fast.Net went Chapter 11 and recently had an asset sale .. so good thing I got out when I did … The other thing that really isn’t such a big deal is that I ran a network connection to the sound booth … I am now able to be online from The Tango … So those were a couple things worth mentioning …
Latest web site I did for Y-Not … I sent a semi-rant to a customer of mine about the benefits of PHP, I will copy and paste that here:
PHP is not only web … there is a CLI version that will come with the Windows version, and where it used to be standard on *nix, you can still install it … I use PHP script all the time to do scheduled tasks … Most notably on the Windows server to open an Access database and see whether an artist’s touring schedule was update and if it was, and email is triggered to those on an elist that wish to be updated of such things … The other thing I really dig about PHP is that you don’t need addition components to complete tasks … No AspEmail .. AspUpload, etc … all can be written simply using PHP … Conditional includes as well … It’s incredibly robust … AND it runs on every platform … So, when I write a PHP web page or application, I can put it on either Windows or FreeBSD servers …
Additionally, I bought Zend Encoder http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-encoder.php … so I can encrypt my PHP source … Additionally with a custom PHP function, I also can encrypt web site source utilizing JavaScript … I just recently put up http://www.ynotrocks.com … Pixxar did the site, and I did all the rest … It is completely PHP powered, and they have FTP access to all my scripts, but downloading them is useless, they’re all encrypted … Additionally, if you load any page from that site, click View Source and see what you get … So you can’t even swipe my HTML easily … another thing I do is, I do a check within my scripts to make sure I’m running on the domain they were written for … If not, the script exits immediately with an ICUDesign.Net copyright message … and lastly, all the scripts will expire on a specified date … I set this site for Jan 1, 2005 … So even if they move to another host and think they have a running application, it will eventually fail on them … (of course the MySQL server connection is hard coded, and that will shut them down first but they could override their local DNS and run their own local version of MySQL server using my domain name, but the expiration of the scripts cannot be tricked) …
So there you have it … this is my latest update to my busy world …