Archive for October, 2009

Asynchronous PHP

« 16 October 2009 | 13:46 | PHP, Software, Web Development | No Comments »

I needed to “asynchronous PHP” recently and it took me a little while to find the solution. What my script basically does is generate a PDF file for the user to download based on some parameters they have chosen. The problem was, the PDF generate take a while and during that time I needed to [...]



PPTP VPN Routing in Ubuntu using Network Manager

« 1 October 2009 | 12:19 | Site News | 1 Comment »

Back when I was still on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid), I had near endless problems with PPTP VPN access using the network manager. I wasn’t alone, and I guess I was pretty fortunate that it worked at all. My problem with it was that routes never worked correctly so ALL of my traffic was routed through [...]