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Tag: PHP

  • Fixing iCalendar feeds

    Fixing iCalendar feeds

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    Many sites allow you to synchronize to their calendar loosely following the iCalendar standard. Unforutunately many set the time for all day events, with a quick and dirty PHP script you can fix this.

  • PHP uniqid() not always a unique ID

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    When is a unique id not unique? How can a file exist and not exist? All this caused a mysterious bug in JFFNMS with the reachability interface which goes to show the limitations of the PHP function uniqid().

  • jffnms 0.9.4

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    JFFNMS version 0.9.4 was released today, this version fixes some bugs that have recently appeared in previous versions. The triggers rules editor had a problem where some of the rules clicked off the triggers would not appear or could not be edited correctly. Most of the Admin screens have the ability to sort the rows.…

  • Careful with apache upgrades

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    You might (or not if you don’t visit) notice all my websites were down.  A rushed apt-get dist-upgrade and I found two problems: PHP5 got removed, which is bad if you run a wordpress site that uses PHP to run The apache configuration has changed. Yes, the NEWS entries did warn me, if I read…

  • JFFNMS 0.9.3

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    JFFNMS version 0.9.3 has been released today.  This is a vast improvement over the 0.9.x releases and anyone using that train is strongly recommended to upgrade.So what changed? What didn’t change!  A nice summary would be fixing a lot of things that were broken or needed some tweaking. A really, really big thanks to Marek…

  • PHP floats and locales

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    I recently had a bug report in JFFNMS that the SLA checks were failing with bizarre calculations.  Things like 300% disk drive utilization and the like.  Briefly, JFFNMS is written in PHP and checks values that come out of rrdtool and makes various comparisons like have you used more than 80% of your disk or…

  • JFFNMS 0.9.2 Released

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    JFFNMS version 0.9.2 was released today both as an upstream tar.gz file and a new Debian package.  This version fixes some bugs including making sure it works with PHP5.4. The biggest change in PHP 5.4 is that you can no longer call by reference.  Previously you could call a function like myfunc(&blah); which would send…

  • What happens without software testing

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        Well JFFNMS 0.9.0 was a, well, its a good example of what can go wrong without adequate testing.  Having it written in PHP makes it difficult to test, because you can have entire globs of code that are completely wrong but are not activated (because the “if” statement proves false for example) and…