Change in Commenting Policy

June 3rd, 2006 I have been getting a deluge of spams in the last 7 days or so, 19434 spams so far in Akismet queue of this blog alone. However something very interesting happened.

October 8th, 2007 One implied restriction on commenting on this site: I will allow commenting by a minor so long it it appropriate. However I will never allow displaying their emails or any other personally identifiable information in their comments.

May 15th, 2006 I wanted to create ajax based commenting system for some html pages. The design goals were: 1.

June 28th, 2008 For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end.

June 18th, 2006 This is a simple guide to making friends (as many million as you like) on MySpace automatically (otherwise where is the fun?). Ensure you have perl available on your system.

June 10th, 2006 I have been exploring externally managed commenting systems (example) and so I revisited Haloscan (registered in my blogger blogging days). The funniest part was their support forum.

May 15th, 2006 We are doing extensive work with WordPress, developing plugins, themes and also modifying the code base where necessary. In the process I found it necessary to create a online cross-reference of WordPress source along with capability to annotate / comment (AJAX based) as necessary.

January 17th, 2007 After being thoroughly fed-up with the state of WordPress comment spam protection, I have decided to solve the comment spam problem in WordPress blogs once and for all. I have installed an experimental commenting system which is designed to completely stop (read 100%) robotic spam (spam generated by bots and not humans) in all my blogs and with no (read 0%) false positives.

May 15th, 2006 Sajax is an useful ajax framework to simplify ajax based development for languages like PHP, Ruby etc. Not many realize Sajax can be used equally well from plain old html pages (as in .html or .htm).

December 19th, 2005 I just happened to chance upon much hyped WriteBoard from 37Signals. It is an online (ajax enabled; what isn't these days?) service to create and edit text documents with a wiki like syntax.

May 27th, 2006 The free book on complete eye care - Better Eyesight Through Natural, Herbal and Yogic Methods has been updated to provide commenting support. Now you can add comments and share your experiences in using the book on each page.

August 30th, 2007 We have deployed Comment Guard Pro across all our blogs. It has been extensively tested for this internal release and we don't expect any problems.

July 29th, 2008 Zemanta is a nice little WordPress plugin which allows you to discover tags and linkable items within your content as well as images to include. In short it could have a nice little blogger's elf, helping you to create richer content.

June 28th, 2008 Extendable (by plugins, ...) Static Analysis tools like FindBugs can enhance the security of your Java applications (web as well as standalone or client-servers applications) in several significant ways. Enforcing security policy compliance Security policies are espoused by security experts such as OWASP and mandated for compliance by many regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley that require organizations to demonstrate they have done "due diligence" in safeguarding application security and information privacy.

February 6th, 2004 After some deliberation, and seeing others, I decided to leave the commenting section on my blog un-moderated. Today I was mildly surprised to find almost all my posts had a comment to it.