Emailing with PHP

While adding some more features to the recent Intranet Portal, one thing that came up was to have an email sent with a copy of the order for a quick check. I originally did this sending it as plain text however it was a little difficult to read. I wanted to set it up to [...]

Online Ordering Intranet Portal

While writing an online ordering portal to be used internally between multiple locations to standardize their purchases, I needed to create an easy, web-based way to add and modify product entries in a MySQL database. I started trying to put this together using PHP and after a little while decided to start browsing the web [...]

IIS 7 Leaking Internal IP (PCI Audit)

While going through a PCI-DSS audit for the credit cards, I ran into several Windows 2008 servers running IIS 7 that were failling on an old IIS 4 problem…they were sending out the internal IP address in the HTTP Headers.
After much digging around trying to figure out the issue, I was directed to a poston [...]

IE Developer Toolbar

Apparently the IE Dev Toolbar has been out for a while and I managed to miss it. I’ve only tried it out quickly so far it doesn’t seem to be as nice as what’s available for Firefox but nice to know they at least have something for IE to compete. Regardless of what browser you’re [...]

SSL 3.0 in IIS 7.0

One quirk I recently ran into was regarding SSL version 3.0 in IIS 7.0. I was under the impression that IIS defaulted to SSL 3.0 and had 2.0 disabled…this is apparently not the case. While going through a PCI audit we found that the server was still accepting SSL 2.0 connections which is apparently against [...]

PHP Register Global Variables

Ran into an issue this past week with a couple of web sites that were setup a few years ago. Specifically the online forms stopped working…it would go through on the user side no problems but no data was actually sent through the form.
The problem turned out to be caused by an update which [...]

Hurricane Tracking

With all the recent storm activity down here we’ve all been spending a lot of time on our favorite weather sites watching the storm tracking and seeing when we need to start putting up the shutters. For the past few years I’ve always relied (and continue to do so) on Weather Underground for weather and [...]