I’m happy to announce that phpWatch 2 has been released. The complete re-write of phpWatch includes a bunch of new features including the ability to pause monitors, schedule downtime, and set thresholds for each service. Furthermore, the new backend has been re-designed per the request of many to allow for custom extensions.
Also, phpwatch.net has been [...]
It has been a very long time since I’ve made a post and have received a great deal of e-mails inquiring about the status of phpWatch 2.0. Classes have taken their toll on my free time for the last few months and I’m just now getting back to development. My hope is that a beta [...]
phpWatch has become a much greater success than I anticipated. Going by the hits to the version-check file, there are about 600 active users on a day to day basis. I get a few e-mails per week with suggestions and criticism that has been invaluable in the development of phpWatch. After aggregating a list of [...]
Version 1.0.8 of phpWatch has been released. This is an urgent release for anyone using v1.0.5 to v1.0.7 as these have an error which does not let them dispatch SMS messages. You can find the download here:
http://phpwatch.net
The article I wrote and posted about here is now available to be read in full:
PHP Architect Article (PDF) ()
Floating point numbers always seem to confuse programmers, including myself, that haven’t fully looked into the IEEE standard that dictates how they are stored and manipulated in most modern languages. My System Architecture professor recommended this article to out class to help us understand a portion of the MIPS architecture.
It is somewhat lengthy at 72 [...]