Portal Redesign

I have to admit, I was quite satisfied using WordPress with www.stargazer.at as cms for my portal page as it is quite flexible and somehow extendable with plugins. But it is too small for being a full blown portal site. So I switched to drupal. But no panic, this blog will stay on wordpress…

Anti-Spam

Ok guys out there, updating me on viagra and stocks every day with more than 40 comments a day, I am pissed by now andtightening measures. First of all, postings older than 120 days will be closed. Exceptions are handled by me. Next thing is that I will filter out comments having BBCode in them as it is […]

Comment it!!

I do not know for how long I have been avoiding updating my old PHP projects and dig into them for getting them to the new standards. But trust me – reading your own code thinking ‘what the hell did I think while writing that’ is not funny. I spent yesterday in rewriting most stuff due to hardly […]

Spam is expensive

Thanks to my spamfilter the amount of spam mails reaching my mailbox is very low, without blocking my normal mailing. If I would not have that filter, I would have about 200 junk mails per day in my inbox. This would be about 73000 mails per year. For sorting spam and ham I would need about an hour […]