Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
The Rock Band Name Generator
Bill Harris posted a hilarious and surprisingly effective method of generating band names for EA’s game Rock Band among other things. I decided to slap together a script that automates the process. Go try it out!
Another update on the new spam killing
Things were just going too smoothly. I thought my SK2 plugin was doing dandy, catching everything it was supposed to. And it was, though my average daily take has been hovering about 5 or 10 now. What should have been obvious was that I actually haven’t received any comments recently. I finally discovered why: there [...]
A Non-Spam Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers! I hope you are amongst friends and family and that it’s a day of rest and peace for you all. We’re spending a quiet day with my Mom, cooking turkey and just relaxing. We’re not the kind to spend the entire day in the kitchen — it’s happened in [...]
Spam Karma 2 and mod-security?
I’ve used Spam Karma 2 on this blog forever, as it’s an effective and glorious piece of software that does its job well, as evidenced by the ~90,000 comment spams eaten. It’s elegantly designed unlike most of my plugins, and actually built to be extended by others with its plugin architecture. I’ve been playing around [...]
Htaccess redirection for timestamp changes
I’ve talked before about .htaccess and the hotness that is mod_rewrite for various purposes. Permalink conversion from Movable Type to WordPress. Killing referral spam. Another adjustment to the referrer spam killing. I ran across another one today that I hadn’t dealt with and figured it was worth discussing. I updated an old post with some new material. That in [...]
PHP Primer and Tutorial, Part 1
I get a lot of questions from people about WordPress. Whether about themes or my plugins or even more esoteric queries they continue to roll in. Unfortunately, my answer rate has somewhat dropped. Either the question has already been asked and answered, the question is asked in such a way — or in a place [...]
Screw LightPress
Screw LightPress. I could never get it looking the way I wanted — well, to be fair, I didn’t have the patience to get it to look the way I wanted –, it didn’t work right with Markdown, and it didn’t fix my wonky Dreamhost idiocy. So, I’m back to my friggin’ design. If Dreamhost [...]
Moving to Lightpress
I’ve moved this thing over to the Lightpress front end. Why? I’ve mentioned before that I’ve gotten nastygrams from Dreamhost for taking too many resources. I’ve tried many, many things, from adjusting the content of the sidebar to no longer display “most popular” and other types of things, to no longer using my Image Headlines [...]
