What's Up-time?

Ben Bray — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:33:50 +0100

As you may already now, being a customer of the ITD gives you realtime access to view what's going on with your network.

The simple layout of the monitoring page in the Client Area may be familiar to you (see below). But now you can also see how your network is performing, and critically for how long. A new graph has been added to each monitored device showing it's Uptime.

Remote Desktop Patch for Windows 7

Ben Bray — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:17:51 +0100

I decided to create this post after spending a while figuring out what Microsoft had done with RDP (or Terminal Services) in Windows 7.

The feature that enables you to connect to your PC from anywhere and work from your familiar desktop has been available to anyone running installations of XP/Vista/7 Professional or above.

If you're reading this post, you may have alreRead More...

Website Goes Live...!

Ben Bray — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:13:08 +0100

After many months of head scratching the new website has gone live!

Thank you to everyone who's been involved in testing and letting me know if there were any problems - hopefully, they're all sorted now. But if you do come across any quirks or issues, please send me an email or get in touch via the Contact Us page (provided it works!)

If you'd likeRead More...

CiviCRM, CiviMail and Joomla

Ben Bray — Fri, 06 May 2011 02:47:53 +0100

Here's a workaround which allows you to include Joomla data to be used as custom tokens in CiviMail.

The problem I was having involved encouraging CiviCRM donors to log on before renewing their memberships - and without them having to know their usernames and/or passwords. The process of donating had to be made as simple as possible.

The solution was to use a View in MySQL in the place of a custom_data table, and then use the {contact.custom_XX} tokeRead More...

Synchronising LDAP with MySQL

Ben Bray — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:12:50 +0100

I know this one's quite specific - and it won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I've been looking into synchronising LDAP with MySQL and *surprisingly* there's not much on how to do it.

I found this script which was perfect, except it was designed for MailWatch (!?) and therefore threw an error when running against normal RDNs.

(see this post from 2008)

After a tiny bit of reworking, the script now retrieves usernames, email addresses, display naRead More...

Welcome to (another) Blog!

Ben Bray — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Hello,

Thank you for visiting.

Things like this always start off with the best intentions - and then the enthusiasm tapers off like a dairylea triangle. I'm hoping that The Nerd's Eye View will be an exception.

It's intended as a place to share stuff that I come across, with an emphasis on the unusual,