BurningbirdCats are by nature, brave and fearless creatures. Dignified, too, with a formidable composure. A dog, on the other hand, may be loyal and loving and can learn nifty tricks, but they whine. Hard to have composure when you’re whining. A dog will whine when you leave and whine when you get home; they whine […]
I was stunned this morning, as we all were, to hear about the devastating earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean and all those people that have been killed. Already estimates of the death toll are at 14,000 and counting. My heart goes out to the people there. I wish there was something more I […]
I’m not normally a link and comment person, but I’m feeling in a ‘chatty’ mood, so here we go: American Street has created adjunct Perranoski award categories to the Wampum awards. There’s also a contest for best poem featuring the Rumsfeld infamous quote You go to war with what you have. Personally, though, I prefer my poetry sans Rummy, but the contest […]
I believe that, eventually, most comment spam strategies will have to have a system-wide component in place to truly combat this problem — something to watch for comment spam patterns happening on a server, and throttle accordingly. However, that’s something that can’t really be handled with the application. So, I’ll focus on what I can […]
I am in the midst of converting Wordform’s architecture into supporting multiple weblogs. The procedure I worked out, over coffee at Border’s, is the following: Pull the SQL statements out of all the application files and incorporate them into one file. The reason for this is to help me identify all of the SQL bits […]