Just thought before I wrote some new content for this site to go live in the next few days, i’d come here and just quickly update everyone with anything I can think of really.
I mentioned a couple of my own projects last time, no names to be released as yet, but they are coming on well just need to find the time to get them finished and up and running. I have started on a few other little projects too since the last update, one includes some changes to this site. These will be online as soon as I can complete them.
More tutorials, articles coming soon. Some updates to come about my EyeTV Hybrid, some new stuff about my iMac and well any other gadget that is new ish… I may even get some stuff in about AppleScript.
Talking of AppleScript, hopefully in the next week or so I will have a script done for one of my little ‘fun’ projects. More information on this will come when its all complete and working.
e107 Guides etc, still in the works. Will try and get something out soon, can’t guarantee anything.
Work… What can I say, it’s going great. Its miles better than working at home in a tiny office, now I get to work on some amazing projects in a cool office with some great guys, random music, and chit chat.
Expect some posts in the next few days. Gonna get this blog back to ‘active’ status.
Most of the bloggers I know are been spammed, there are quite a few different ways to stop spam from occurring on your site.
One would be the use of a Captcha plugin to display an image with some text the commenter has to input into a verification field. While this is effective, it can annoy visitors and you will ultimately loose comments on your blog
Another way, is to use the Askimet plugin that is packaged within Wordpress. Once you have it installed and running it will catch spam comments, as well as a script can. Personally the script hasn’t failed me once, it has never held back a legit comment and has never missed a spam comment.
Now this is a great way to keep spam ‘Unapproved’. But I go one further and ban the spammers IP’s from the blog. I have banned 4 IP’s so far and I haven’t had a spam comment in 5 days, before I was getting one every few hours. To ban the IP’s from viewing my blog I use the WP-Ban plugin. Askimet provides the IP’s, then if an IP spams more than twice it I add it to the banlist.
Just a quick little tip I thought i’d share.
Well its becoming apparent with my new job that I just don’t get enough time to come on here and post as much. I will try my hardest to come up with some kind of plan to make sure the blog is updated as much as possible, but till then expect a post a week.
I have started working on a few new personal projects these past 2 weeks, all of them i’m really happy with so far. Just need to find the time to complete them. Work is continuing on the e107 guides, making slow progress towards the first releasable version. Sorry to everyone who expect it in the next week or two. There is just too much to write about just the e107 basics.
As soon as I have information for you on my new projects/e107 guide then i’ll post it here. Traffic continues to increase, and additions to this site are coming (slowly). One of the bigger updates is going to include a page with aggregated “Interesting Blog’s” but displaying more content than the current aggregator on the homepage.
Just to answer the most asked question via my contact form recently, work is great thanks. Really enjoying it so far, just wish email newsletters were easier to develop.