Preventing Cron Collisions - Stop PHP Scripts Running Twice Simultaneously

What happens when you have a cron job that you want to run fairly regularly - let's say every minute or every two minutes. Now what happens if the server is under load and it doesn't complete the job before the next call - you get a cron collision. Sometimes that's not a big deal, but often that can cause problems. For example if you have ... Read More »

16th Aug 2012
How to Create and eBay Shop Template in Dreamweaver

This short tutorial will take you through how to create a ebay template using Dreamweaver. This tutorial describes the procedure that was taken using CS5, although it will be similar for other versions of the dreamweaver software. 1. Create a folder anywhere in your directory where you'll put all your files for this template. 2. Create a ... Read More »

10th Aug 2012
How to Make an iTunes Slider on Your Website - Including Links

The slider in the iTunes software is pretty cool, and our graphic designer at work thought so too. He had us integrate the slider into the website we built for Peace Apostolic Community in Rockhampton. I found a cool tutorial online at Tuts Plus that was able to give me a great start but the code was incomplete. I've modified the code a little ... Read More »

7th Aug 2012
Server Monitoring with SMS Alerts - Top Ten Providers

Recently we had to set up server monitoring via SMS for our Dedicated Server. We were hoping there would be a free service so did a fair bit of research into this. As it turns out we didn't find a free service, but we did find much information which we have compiled and we hope will save other people much time. Here is a list of Companies that ... Read More »

14th Jun 2012
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