Time It, Supernifty’s free online time tracker, has just undergone a significant enhancement – task filtering.
The reporting functionality now includes the ability to exclude or include specific tasks.
So you can easily
for a subset of your tasks, for instance, only those for a specific project or client.
Hurrah!
If you use sessions with PHP on shared hosting, there are a couple of potential issues:
So… by default, sessions timeout after 24 minutes, which I think many users would find pretty irritating, and you are vulnerable to session hijacking from anyone having access to your shared server.
Not good!
The solution. Here is one way to solve both of these potential issues. Whenever your code starts handling a session, include the following PHP:
ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime","21600"); // 6 hours
ini_set("session.save_path", "/your_home/your_sessions/");
session_start();
The first setting is the timeout in seconds, so for each hour of session survival, add 3600.
The second setting is the path to save session files to. Change this to a real directory in your home directory. Note that the first setting will not work unless you set this. Also note that the process running PHP needs to be able to write to this directory.
With this hack you can increase the security of your PHP sessions, and have them timeout over a period appropriate to your website. Hurrah!
I’m pleased to announce Time It!, a free online time tracker.
Time It! is ideal for recording how you spend your time.
If you:
Then Time It! may be the ticket.
Time It! provides:
Try it out – it’s free and simple. I use it every day to keep track of my many exciting projects.
Supernifty has just migrated to a new hosting provider: Webfaction.
These guys have all the up-to-date software, a great control panel, and undercrowded shared servers. They offer very good support and have wizard installations for all kinds of web frameworks, including Django, Rails, WordPress, etc. So far it has all looked very impressive.
As a result of the migration, a whole bunch of server software that Supernifty relies on has been upgraded. Hence there may be problems. If something does not work properly, please let me know. Although we’ve tested as much as possible, at 2am, sometimes things are missed.