A quick tour of the NMC Second Life campus. I walk around the virtual poster session, go for a walk/fly, and take a quick look around. Click the "play " or "download " links to take the tour.The poster session seems odd at the moment - I'm not sure faithfully reproducing the physical world... »
I had been making a case to attend OSCON2006 this year, the logic being that it's a better fit for what I'm doing now than WWDC is. OSCON is a gathering of open source projects and programmers/developers, with tracks on various cool open source technologies, methodologies, etc... WWDC is a corporate developers conference,... »
I was just clearing out the last of the comment spam - I'd let it stew in the database (unpublished) but thought I'd take a quick peek to see if there were any false positives. I thought I'd found one - a comment marked as spam, but with content portraying sympathy with my plight... »
Last year, Flickr was offering some cool free stuff to help promote the site. There were stickers and buttons showing the Flickr logo and the famous Flickr Dots. They ran out, promising there would be "... more good stuff" - and now, a year later, there's still nothing. I mean, come ON, Flickr. I'd pick up... »
The spammers started trailing off not long after I wrote the previous post - before hitting their target of 20,000 spam attempts in 24 hours. They punked out at about 18,000 - then I closed the door with the Bad Behavior module. It was kind of interesting leaving the spammers swarming around my blog as... »
The onslaught just keeps coming. It's on pace to easily meet 20,000 spam comments in 24 hours. I had a very small handful of false negatives, but they were easily dispatched by clicking a couple of checkboxes on an admin page. 20,000 spam attempts. Peaking at multiple attempts per second, with over 500 spam bots... »
I'd tried Akismet before, and wound up reverting to Spam Karma 2 - actually, I think SK2 was interfering with Akismet, so that likely wasn't a fair comparison, since both were running at the same time.But, I've been running the Drupal Akismet module for 10 days now, and it's been performing... »
I just upgraded our TLC development/staging/small-deployment server from MySQL 4.0 to 5.0.22. I'd never upgraded a MySQL server before (always just installed a fresh copy on a new box, or updated along with MacOSX) so I wanted to do some testing before making the plunge on a deployment server. We've got a bunch of... »
I think about half of these are from Brian's trip to Croatia... »
Teemu Leinonen posted a link on the IIEP-OER list, referencing the LeMill project he's working on. I just checked it out, and it's pretty cool. This one is based on the Plone content management system / framework, so it's great to see what can be done on top of these maturing... »
