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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 Perl, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Spam, SpamValve, Web | Comments (3)

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, Perl, PHP, Rails, Ruby, Web | Comments (4)

Plugin: SpamForceField

3/29/2005 – 2:33 pm

SpamForceField is my newest anti-spam plugin for WordPress. This one does a couple of interesting things:

All connections via pinappleproxy are denied.
Every connection’s Referer is checked against your blacklist keys. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Security, Servers, Software, Spam, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged Google, PHP, plugin, Plugins, SEO, Spam, Web, WordPress | Comments (40)

The topic of Ajax is pretty hot right now. And some people are getting a little hot over the naming. As I pointed out yesterday, and as Ian Hickson and Dare Obasanjo have also said, Ajax is not a new technology. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Browsers, Software, Tech | Also tagged Ajax, dom, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Web | Comments (12)

Ajaxing the Rails

3/23/2005 – 1:39 pm

If you’re a web developer, then hopefully you’ve already heard of Ruby on Rails and Ajax. If not, you’re behind the times, and you have some reading to do. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Ruby, Software, Tech | Also tagged Ajax, Google, PHP, Rails, Ruby, Web | Comments (5)

Theme Preview Plugin

3/9/2005 – 12:14 pm

Early in the development of the “themes” support in WordPress, I bugged Ryan Boren for a “preview” feature. Instead, he wrote a Theme Switcher Plugin, which wasn’t what I wanted (but was still a cool thing to have). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Design, Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged CSS, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Web, WordPress | Comments (42)

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. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Hardware, Personal, Tech, Work | Also tagged Perl | Comments (4)

TinyP2P

12/15/2004 – 12:16 pm

The world’s smallest Peer-to-Peer application, written in 15 lines of Python code: TinyP2P.

TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Politics, Tech | Also tagged dom | Comments (0)

Really Slick Screensavers

12/7/2004 – 10:48 pm

Euphoria is one of the Really Slick Screensavers

While on a search for new eye candy, I found Really Slick Screensavers, which really lives up to the name. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Tech | Comments (4)

Patterns in Web Design

10/7/2004 – 10:53 am

37signals has yet another excellent article out. This one is called An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design. Some of it might seem obvious, or even instinctive, if you’ve been doing programming and/or web design for a while. [...]