Archive for October, 2006

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Trackback spam and Wordpress

Well, I’ve had several requests over the past few months for a version of DYPM that stops trackback spam.

I’m starting to think that it isn’t possible with the current capabilities of Wordpress.

Fundamentally, gives you no means of doing any kind of challenge/response when someone creates a trackback - leaving only moderation and content filtering styles [...]

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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Natural selection doesn’t work…

If it did, mum would have died, not the baby: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20643573-2,00.html

 

 

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Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Salesforce.com releases APEX

Well, I think this sums it up:

 ”…means that you can put code — and therefore business logic — almost anywhere in the UI…”

Which is awesome since other technologies have spent years making sure you can’t put business logic in the user interface! 

As I grow older, and more cynical (yes, Mike, that is possible…) I’m staggered to [...]

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Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Vista RC2 hitting Redmond desktops

I was going to say Vista RC2 was coming, but it looks like between the news articles of its coming (yesterday) and today….. it arrived! 

Vista RC2 

For posterity, here is what I was GOING to say:

 I’ve had the priviledge of visiting Microsoft in Redmond this week and speaking to a number of MS employees ‘in the [...]

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