I’ve started using Akismet for spam filtering and it’s been working great! I used to think it could only be used on a wordpress.com blog or by paying but, after playing around with it, I realized it was only necessary to sign up for a wordpress.com account to get the key which could be used [...]
I’ve recently been making a lot of changes to my blog. The biggest one is probably the fact that I removed the “www.” from my URL. Afterwards, while searching around, I realized that there is a whole movement to deprecate the use of www subdomains! I think this is good for a few reasons (on [...]
Everyone knows how awesome Google is but until recently I didn’t realise how awesome Google really is. I use Gmail and Google Calendar religiously but they offer a lot of features beyond the standard web app. For instance, for checking Gmail from your phone they developed this awesome little java app that only pings the [...]
I’ve installed phpBB2 on the PLUG servers to supply a forum for PLUG members. So far the members have taken to it quite quickly. I’ve set up so many phpBB installs that I feel like I’m getting really efficient at it. I also modified the main PLUG wiki theme to better match the forums.
After working at the GIS department of the county auditors office two years ago, I learned the importance of standardization. Multiple people will most likely have to read your code/markup, especially in the case of http where the markup is “open source.” Also, browsers these days are so inconsistant in their parsing that its hard [...]