… that you did something you thought was a good idea at the time, would serve the best purposes of everyone, and had it blow up horribly in your face? I will not make this a commentary on the “WordPress SEO” debacle but I can and will add a vote of confidence. Matt Mullenweg is a good person, cares intensely about WordPress and its community and would not (and could not!) do anything to harm or undermine the community and software that he loves so much and has worked so hard to build and establish. He is unavailable to defend himself at this time and that makes it easier for people to level accusations without knowing all the facts or letting Matt make amends. I for one, firmly believe in Matt’s objective and in WordPress. I will not try to anticipate how Matt is going to handle it, nor am […]

If you would like one, please leave me a comment. Thanks to MindSack [EDIT] The first wave is sent out. Now you have to post a praise for WordPress to get an invite! 😉 [EDIT] All gone. Thanks for playing! (try emailing one of the people in the comments for an invite)

I had noticed a considerable slowdown in this blog sometime ago and had not been able to track down the cause for this slowdown. I had tried a variety of different things including breaking down the database into small portions and the code into more sizeable chunks to try and isolate what was causing the slowdown (including all kinds of optimization/repair techniques). I remembered this morning that I had installed Spam Karma to test it and had since uninstalled it. However, I had not realized that Spam Karma had created a fulltext index of the comments table and I had not removed that index. Adding to the problem was the feature of WordPress 1.5 that stores all spam comments. The comment fulltext index had grown to over 50 megs in size (with over 25000 spam comments plus the few thousand legit ones). All of this resulted in every mysql query […]

After a very good run of CSPAM, I have decided to end the project and make it “Riskware”. In other words, CSPAM will no longer be actively monitored or supported. It will remain in its place but the script will run its own course. I will continue to use it for my own purposes and siphon off spam from my various blogs. Lack of interest from users and lack of resources to run such a large repository are some of the primary causes for shutting it down. I say that it was a good run because I have caught close to 783,000 spam comments with CSPAM, have amassed over 4500 spam phrases and over 7000 spammer IPs since I put it in place back in November, 2004. Unless there is a huge outcry over its demise, or someone is willing to take over the code and the database, it will […]

Everyone is talking about Ajax these days and I wanted to save a few links that I would like to catch up on, including the writeup from Adaptive Path. Owen created an Ajax based theme for WordPress with inline editing. Cool usage of Ajax. Twilight Universe wrote a plugin for WordPress with the same utility. Again, cool code. XMLHTTPRequest tutorial that is a must read. SAJAX or Simple Ajax Toolkit for PHP Now all you do is include the code. More explanation of REST, XML, XSLT and XmlHTTPRequest Javascript native XMLHttpRequest Do you DOJO with XmlHTTPRequest? Live Chat with AJAX Thanks to various sources including Asymptomatic, Photomatt, ForeverGeek and Whump.com

Recently, there has been a full launch of Top 100 Bloggers. A community built within this site to help rank blogs accordingly to their activity and user traffic. A review and rating system are both intact for this top site listing. You may visit the home page of the new community by going to Top100Bloggers.com or simply clicking here to join. The concept behind this new community is quite simple. It’s nothing new, but it’s something that has finally been put together. There are many different lists out there for specific blogging systems, but this is bringing all bloggers together with unity. To become ranked on the top sites, you may add any of the images listed on the site, a text link, or a custom link of your own using the referral link specified for your ID. This community is not specific to any blogging system or blogger. All […]

I have been a faithful user of Feed on Feeds for about a year. I thank Steve Minutillo for all of his hard work and dedication and I was really pleased with the experience while it lasted. However, with the increased load on my server, the 250 odd feeds that I tracked every hour and my goal to save all feed information, FoF was just killing my server for hours at a time. An hour was not enough to parse through the list of feeds and F0F would start a new update process while the old one was running, thus effectively DoSing itself. Time well spent with a great product but now I need to move on. I have tried other aggregators and have had various levels of success. I just love FeedDemon but I miss the ability to view feeds online and I simply cannot lug my laptop around […]