iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

While my wife was getting a valuable two hours of sleep before she was woken with contractions signaling the birth of our first born child 19 hours later, I was not quite tired enough to sleep. UnknowingIy missing out on my last chance to sleep for a while, I was typing away at a PHP… Continue Reading PHP script to download files from GMail

Unless you’re reading this posting via Facebook, you may have noticed that you now have to sign in to add comments to my blog postings. I tried to resist as long as possible, but the signal to noise ratio was getting too high for me whenever I had to approve comments. I could have add… Continue Reading Adding comments to my blog

Brock University’s documentation for Isaak, Brock University’s Sakai-Based Learning Management System (LMS), is maintained within a wiki at kumu.brocku.ca/sakai. This wiki is intended to be a practical, readable, guide that is aware of the context that instructors use Sakai/Isaak for teaching at Brock University. What follows I had actually hoped to present on this at… Continue Reading Using a wiki to document Isaak, Brock University’s Sakai-Based LMS

When setting up my VPS server there were a number of options for building it. The VPS admin tool gives you “virtual” control over the power switch and the ability to rebuild the server with a fresh OS image at any time. A2 Web Hosting has a few flavours of Linux to choose from: CentOS… Continue Reading Building-Up CentOS 5 Linux Operating System

Since I just went through the process of setting-up my own self-managed VPS (virtual private server) system I figured I’d share my experience in the hopes that it will help someone else with some basic command-line comfort looking to gain control of their web hosting or being the process of scaling up. This is the… Continue Reading Setting up a server