I need a lot more alpha testers. Please email me or leave a comment if interested. I do not want to release it for general download and thus the lack of a real release. Spread the word. [EDIT] Come on, some more testers…please? 🙂 If you are one of the plugin users…any comments?

I have been working with the centralized comment spam prevention idea for some time and I have a service ready to be tested. It is in the alpha stages of development but the focus is on a simplified interface, incredibly simple installation and ZERO maintenance. Now a lot of developers and blog gurus poo poo the centralized idea since any central system WILL be vulnerable. However, if centralization itself is distributed, that is, if a hundred people can provide spam protection for a hundred thousand, the vulnerability becomes less of a problem. In the present incarnation of this service, you install a WordPress (various other tools planned) plugin and enable it. Everything else is taken care of for you. The service learns from itself and the more spam you send its way, the better it gets. Lots of features are planned and some are already implemented. What I am looking […]

Is there a difference? Is optimized code better than optimized markup? Which should programmers (for the web) be striving for? If there is a major difference, should mainstream programmers be re-learning the tricks of the trade when they start programming for the web?

Let us try this again, with some fixes. [EDIT] Comments seems to have been borked by an errant empty line in my common spam words. Please try posting your comments again if you were getting timed out. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you, my reader, for all your patronage and I hope to continue to provide useful and insightful content in the future and will try my hardest to continue helping out with WordPress. In the last year, this blog has grown to become a part of me. Weblogtoolscollection has been viewed more times than I am worth (which is not much, mind you), I have met many fine people who believe passionately in blogging and elect to spend hundreds of hours in helping people blog. I have come to be known as LaughingLizard (or LL in short) to many of my buddies. I have started serving ads to pay […]

I have finally put together a small but functional project website for Pictorialis. There is an associate blog, a wiki (incomplete) and seperate download locations for all Pictorialis releases and support files. The support BBS is linked in and there is even a donate button. Please refer to that site in the future for all Pictorialis related information and downloads. I will continue to announce releases on this blog. I will appreciate any links from my readers to this new project website.

I wrote Pictorialis because I had a need. I never quite realized just how popular or how important it would become. Is there really a lot of interest in this product? Should I consider versions and upgrades and actually following the support fora? I am afraid that if I dedicate all my time to Pictorialis, everything else will get sidelined (which is fine if there is a need). Here are my future plans for Pictorialis and the support offerings for it. Once WordPress 1.3 is released, move over the existing code to the new version Seperate “PhotoBlog” and “PhotoAlbum” as two seperate versions of the same Pictorialis. I believe that if they overlap, usability and technical granularity suffers Try to obtain a list of defects with present versions (not bugs, but defects in the methodology) and then incorporate them in the new version In the “PhotoAlbum” version, add more album-like […]