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jNag 0.3 released

jNag 0.3 released

Another day another release of jNag, the Jquery mobile based mobile interface for Nagios. V0.3 adds: ajax problem polling browse by Hosts and services, as well as host groups a tider interface As usual the demo is available here And the download is here Here’s a couple of screenshots showing off the new features: That […]

jNag 0.2 released

jNag 0.2 released

Yesterday I released jNag, my new mobile web interface for the rather spiffy Nagios network monitoring tool. Today I’ve updated it with some new features: You can now see host problems as well as service problems Acknowledged problems now don’t show in the main list on the front screen (this is the major one) you […]

WP Akismet plugin behind proxy

WP Akismet plugin behind proxy

The new HTTP Api in wordpress 2.9 is fantastic, it standardises http requests and allows you to define a proxy through which all http requests are routed.  Useful if, like me, you run a wordpress server on a corporate network. You can configure your proxy server by adding the following lines to your ‘wp-config.php’ define('WP_PROXY_HOST', […]

PHP: clean up your includes!

PHP: clean up your includes!

If you’ve ever worked on any kind of PHP framework, you’ll likely know the pain that a misplaced ‘space’ in one of your includes can cause.  For the rest of you imagine this scenario: To load a page in my framework, I have an index.php that loads in a ‘core.php’ (which isn’t web accessible for […]

PHP Javascript / CSS loader

PHP Javascript / CSS loader

I’m currently working on an in-house management system here at Tyrrell Systems, and employ a lot (seriously, a lot) of javascript for everything from ajax loading of information to various layout tweaks and so on. When I inherited the project (a good 2 years ago now) the previous coders had made use of various scripts […]