Ray's Community

raydlee.org.uk expired so moved everything over to raydlee.online, including this site just moved

Possible Django uber-project:
Just a thought, but since my only gripe with the Stack group is the way answers/comments/upvotes are enabled by reputation, ,maybe I can launch my own stack perspective and effectively 'ride' the stack answers adding my own reputation system for earning the rights to answer/comment/upvote and record them myself for people to see, but only through my perspective on the stack group of sites.

I enjoy developing skills and experiences, my most recent favourite has been python/flask, apache, mysql, with js, but I've had some experience working with php, wordpress, nginx, cpp, cs, and a good deal of other languages and platforms.
I like adapting to alternate technologies since a popular maxim is that if it works, support it.

My interest in Information Technology started in 1982 when I was introduced to a ZX81 and became fascinated by the simplicity of the parts that made such a variety of experiences possible. I moved on through 'A'-levels and BSc getting more interested in the construction of computers and the development of interacting systems along with more acclaim and expectation for my future, then moving to London, I quickly sped through the ranks of an IT operations department, then landing in a critical role in operations support, managing failures, disasters, developing robust solutions and pushing for increased reliability. After a brief spell in global support for a multinational bank, moving on to more varied responsibility in a PC sysadmin role, developing enterprise solutions and supporting everyday operations.

ip.urdl.fun has been running on php alone, but needs to move to flask/mysql

address registered and minimal website enabled - due to renew 26 may 2022

address registered and a minimal website enabled - due to renew 26 may 2022

Has reached alpha testing stage! Some users registering and passing feedback which is better testing than I could have got through, but I'm still very aware of the problems that need to be solved before it can go live, so the alpha disclaimers are still up there

Just came up with an idea for a project management server which has a client subdomain on the customer's website - anyone who goes to the subdomain without an authorisation cookie will just get a splash ad saying we manage the website, but with the cookie, the user can login and see the stats and log events for their website.
In the background, it can be streaming stats to the LG management server and polling for configuration updates or maintenance commands, or it can just ping with a heartbeat to show it's still there.
and the LG server notifies support if any website needs human attention or anything beyond regular scheduled monitoring and maintenance.

Completed the first version of the keystone for a new project - weblinking!

The weblink idea is to overcome the dynamic IP issue by having a service on my local desktop which syncs a generated uuid with my website. My website starts with an issue record for my current IP address, and my server calls up without a uuid, to which the website logs the call in the database and gets a uuid generated which it then passes back to the service in response. The service logs the uuid and waits for five seconds. The service then starts a repeating cycle by calling again, but with the uuid from the previous call, the website verifies it and updates the db record, and responds by issuing the new uuid to the service.
The upshot is that if the ip address changes in the 5 seconds between calls from my windows service, then the website will recognise the uuid from the previous call and log the new ip address and despatch a new uuid.
if there is a network delay between calls, then the windows service will keep retrying until it gets a response from the website again, and the website will respond by recognising the uuid from the last call and issue a new uuid.
Anything other than a normal 5 second turnaround will lead to the website logging an error in it's database. The errors are also replied to the service which also logs the errors in a local text file.

Further refinements expected.

The major project on top of this makes use of the latest IP address in serving webpage content and referring to image galleries served straight from my home desktop. No worries about overloading the web storage or content issues.