I Never Thought I would Say This... Commenting By MinorsOctober 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.
Change in Commenting PolicyMay 30th, 2006 I made a small change in commenting policy. I am experimentally blocking comments from "open and insecure proxies".
Waiting For 20, 000th Spam in 7 DaysJune 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.
Experimental Comment Spam Prevention System for WordPress BlogsJanuary 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.
Comment SpamFebruary 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.
How To Create AJAX Commenting System for Static HTML PagesMay 15th, 2006 I wanted to create ajax based commenting system for some html pages. The design goals were:
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HTML Tags: Complete Index + Commenting Problem?October 23rd, 2005 I find it useful to have a list of HTML tags handy. Today for example I used it to find the strike-through tag.
Why "Haloscan Sucks" (Free Commenting System for Blogs)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.
Blog Comments Problem SolvedFebruary 22nd, 2006 Simple Thoughts Blog had a sporadic but consistent comment problem. On submitting comments a blank page was occasionally returned instead of the original page with the comment added.
WordPress Source Code Cross Reference w/ Commenting for Plugin / Theme / Code DevelopersMay 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.
WriteBoard from 37Signals - Brief ReviewDecember 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.
Solving CSS Stylesheet Not Loading / Rendering ErrorJuly 3rd, 2007 My blog had this vexing problem where it used to render ugly, really ugly, as the stylesheet wasn't being loaded on Firefox. However after a refresh everything was fine.
Bye bye comment spam!December 6th, 2004 Finally I took the step to get rid of comment spam without time consuming moderation, which I have been doing so far. My quest first started with a simple solution - moderation of all comments.
How To Add Double Dash To WordPress PostsMay 27th, 2007 WordPress has the nasty habit, thanks to numerous filters, of converting two consecutive - to different ascii characters. This causes big problem for code fragments where people often tend to cut and paste the displayed code from browsers.
SimpleXML doesn't Work with PHP 5.x: Problem & SolutionNovember 16th, 2005 SimpleXML is PHP 5.x way to handle XML. It is simpler than DOMXML (which incidentally is very poorly documented in manual or elsewhere) which is available on PHP 4.x and much simpler than SAX solutions.
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