The blog is back — with a vengeance
25 04 2005After a couple of very busy months, blissfully ignoring my spam-infested blog, I’ve managed to invest some time cleaning it up and upgrading to the latest WordPress release. Some 1374 deleted spam comments later its looking brand sparkling new, even if I do say so myself!
That said, I’m back in the blogging business and there are loads of things I plan to post about in the coming days including:
- FlashForward 2005 San Francisco roundup (better late than never, great conference that didn’t nearly get the amount of coverage it deserved)
- The “Scripting Design - CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) in Flash” ATE(Ask The Expert) session notes (once I retrieve those from my defunct notebook) along with a couple of great new examples on how to extend the TextField.StyleSheet parser
- Some XML(eXtensible Markup Language) tips and tricks I recently discovered and are brilliant for storyboarding Flash applications
- Upcoming events and planned sessions
And of course the obligatory post with my thoughts on the Adobe > Macromedia acquisition … so stay tuned!
Glad I updated my site so it wouldn’t use the Kubrick theme anymore, that’s the third Flash-related blog in a month I’ve seen that switched to it! Anyways grab SpamKarma, it should solve your comment spam issues dead. More info on WordPress plugins:
http://www.5etdemi.com/blog/archives/2005/04/ot-new-look-for-the-blog/
If you grab spam-karma - make it spam-karma2! It is much better than the origional and DOES SUBSTANTIALLY better at avoiding false positives.
It is also highly extensible so you can modify it to deal with unique spam fingerprints you might experience.
Also, note that you may have trouble getting comment emails with the upgrade to 1.5 - One solution for you might be to update your wp-mail function in the wp-includes/functions.php file by removing the $more parameter and the @ from before the mail function call. Those changes worked for some people (sadly, not for me).
Thanks for the suggestion guys! I’ve installed spam-karma and it does a brilliant job at filtering spam, miles better than the WordPress built-in spam protection.
Hey Peter, we talked briefly at the SFO FF Conference following your session. I’d love to here about the xml tricks and the stylysheet parser concepts you hinted at in this post…when can we expect more? Loved your session at the conference.