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Another update

I was asked to help a group weblog with its new look a week or so ago and it ended up being more work than I expected. However, I finally finished that work today — really, really finished– and have started my final descent for the first release of this product. I found a couple […]

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Wordform 1.0a in test

Wordform 1.0a is in development and test at Burningbird. This site has not been updated to most recent version, though I hope to by week’s end. I also hope to have the first alpha release of the code ready for download next week. Knock on wood.

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Comment spam prevention in Wordform

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 […]

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Progress Report

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 […]

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FYI

In case you’re curious, or see odd behavior now and again with this weblog, I’m making the code changes for Wordform directly on the source running this site. By working on a ‘live’ site, I get to test the changes as they’re made. More than that, this forces me to be very careful with my […]