Archive for January, 2009

PHP Open Port Check

I threw this little script together today when checking why a PHP/Flash/MySQL application has stopped working.
The application itself looks and works fine, but I suspected a firewall block between the web server and database server. Without SSH access to this shared server I had to get inventive.
So I tested that PHP could open a socket [...]

Back from holidays!

I am back from my short holiday and I just had to share photos of me in a beard that somehow grew while I ignored the mirror.
You have to love the emo (black) tinsel in the background!