The actual amount of spam hitting my servers is anoying – especially if I am watching the stats. But the amazing fact is, that Captchas and other security things are easily broken.
Category: IT Related stuff
That’s where logic ends
Spam sucks
Yesterday I started a small battle on my blog fighting the daily comment spam that already raised to 200 comments a day. A small Javascript should do the job if akismet dies. But what way to go? I do not want to bug users as most things are additional work for the user.
Now with pictures
Since I got a gravatar myself, I had to implement that into my blog for comments. For those who do not know gravatars: gravatars are so called global recognized avatars, small pictures assigned to your email address. In other words, if you leave a comment on a blog supporting gravatars, the picture assigned with your email address will […]
Problems with the HeadlineAnimator Plugin
Regarding the feedback of bloggers using my plugin including Tante blogging at the-gay.bar.com, I have rolled a new release targetting problems with the EXIF PHP extension and the path of the font file. Other changes as some checks for the required PHP extensions and making the font color customizeable are already available via Subversion.
The W3C way
I have checked my blog for common w3c errors caused by postings and plugins and corrected them as the w3c standard is a standard to be followed. But why? Websites that do not follow those standards are relying on error-correction by a browser which can cause some random design errors. As I want my website to look good […]
Error pages
Todays topic are error pages numbered 404. Looking at my own blog I have worked out a solution and embedded it into the theme of my site. What’s that Page not found for a visitor? Let’s have a look: Someone clicks a link and gets to a webpage that does not exist. If the CMS does not handle […]