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Feedlounge web-based aggregator

6/10/2005 – 2:12 pm

Alex King and Scott Sanders have announced FeedLounge, a “state of the art web-based feed reader.” Alex invited me to be an alpha tester, so I spent some time kicking it around yesterday. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Applications, Software | Also tagged Aggregators, Ajax, CSS, Feeds, Folksonomies, PHP, Programming, RSS, Tags, Web | Comments (18)

Zend Core for IBM

6/8/2005 – 9:46 am

Cool, IBM and Zend have announced Zend Core for IBM. Basically, it’s an officially supported version of PHP with tight integration into IBM’s DB2 and Cloudscape database servers, and some web services stuff. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Linux, News, Software, Tech | Also tagged Apache, IBM, Microsoft, PHP, Programming, Ruby, Web, WebSphere, Zend | Comments (3)

Dvorak stirs the pot

6/7/2005 – 2:36 pm

John Dvorak seems to thrive on controversy (much like the rest of journalism). His latest claim is that while Apple’s switch to Intel processors could threaten Microsoft, it also “could actually be most dangerous to the emerging Linux OS environment.”

Linux has other problems too. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community, Hardware, Linux, Operating Systems, Tech | Also tagged Apple, Intel, Java, JavaScript, Macintosh, Microsoft, OSX, PHP, Ruby, Windows | Comments (4)

SpamValve Download

5/26/2005 – 2:12 pm

I only had a couple of responses to my call for SpamValve testers. One of the testers has already begun using SpamValve on his FreeBSD server. The other is tied up at the moment, but is going to attempt to adapt it to work on a Linux server sometime next week.

In the meantime, I’ve started using it to filter spam hits to my mail service. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Servers, Services, Spam | Also tagged Email, PHP, Spam, SpamValve, Web | Comments (10)

SpamValve Testers Wanted

5/18/2005 – 9:34 pm

I think I’m almost ready to let some other people bang on SpamValve. I want to get a closed group of users to try it out and give me some feedback before I release it to the general public. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Servers, Spam, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged PHP, plugin, Plugins, Programming, Spam, SpamValve, Web | Comments (3)

Testing a new spam blocker

5/3/2005 – 5:05 pm

I’ve been trying to snatch a few minutes here and there to work on the automated spam blocking system that I proposed last week. Earlier today, I finished up one of the components, and I’m currently testing it. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Servers, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged commentspam, plugin, Spam, SpamValve, this-site, Web, WordPress | Comments (6)

Server problems

4/22/2005 – 9:52 am

I’m sure some of you have noticed that I’m experiencing occassional server problems. The host I’m on has been overtaxed, mostly due to spammer activity (both web and email varieties). There are times when the server load spikes up into the 20s, which is ridiculously high. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Servers, Spam | Also tagged Email, Spam, this-site, Web | Comments (8)

Cake PHP Framework

4/21/2005 – 9:27 am

If you’re like me, you’ve been hearing “Ruby this” and “Rails that” everywhere you go. But I don’t have time right now to be playing with a new development framework, however nifty it may be. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Ruby, Servers, Software, Tech | Also tagged cakephp, Frameworks, PHP, Programming, Rails, Ruby, Web | Comments (4)

SpamLookup plugin for MovableType

4/11/2005 – 1:39 pm

There’s a new plugin for MovableType called SpamLookup. Let’s compare this add-on to the anti-spam features already in the WordPress core:

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged dom, MovableType, plugin, Plugins, Spam, Web, WordPress | Comments (12)

Challenges

1/14/2005 – 12:33 pm

Writing perl unit tests which need to simulate a web browser with cookie support connecting to a server from multiple network interfaces is challenging. Why would I need to do that? Well, when you work for a company whose business is providing controlled internet access to hotels, these sorts of things come up.

I’m not asking for help — I already know how to approach the problem. [...]