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Fight against Comment Spam in WordPress 2006-11-06

Published by Volker E. on 2006-11-06 in Allgemein and Open Source. 0 Comments

As some might have noticed, this blog was down for several hours/days in the last few weeks.
The reason for this was COMMENT SPAM.
In the beginning (around 6 months ago) I thought on getting along with it without countermeasure. But spam rose to a climax of about 30 per day. I’ve received somewhat 1000 unsolicited comments, only two of them were published – by accident. This is due to the very well-done comment-handling tools in WordPress. But I like to know what people are writing on my site, so I am getting an e-mail whenever a comment needs approvement. So it got an unbearable situation.

Solutions: Turing-Test, collaborative fight?!

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Brushed surpasses 1 million download mark 2006-03-24

Published by Volker E. on 2006-03-24 in Allgemein, Brushed and Open Source. 19 Comments

Yes, that’s alright! I haven’t observed the numbers that vigilantly, as Brushed for Firefox must already have surpassed 1.000.000 downloads at addons.mozilla.org for more than a week now. This are only the numbers of downloads from their site, at mine are a few tenthousands more.

Thanks a lot to all of you, who have already downloaded and appreciated using it and who have given support to improve this theme. For all others: GO, GET IT!

User Experience: Message Boxes in Brushed 2005-08-09

Published by Volker E. on 2005-08-09 in Allgemein, Brushed and Open Source. 0 Comments

A few days ago I came across this bug in bugzilla. Kevin Gerich has changed the Fx default theme’s so-called alert icons:

Alert icons for Fx default-theme Winstripe, source: bugzilla

New alert icons for Winstripe (Deer Park)

From Comment #03 on this thread is getting really interesting. Dean Tessman provides a link to an MSDN-article, where the usage of Message Box Types and their graphical symbols are pointed out.
According to it, the usage of the question mark message symbol is not recommended (any longer):

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Donate – if you’ve got resources and like my work 2005-06-17

Published by Volker E. on 2005-06-17 in Allgemein, Brushed and Open Source. 35 Comments

Many of you folks out there have asked me for a matching port of Brushed for Thunderbird. Let me shortly explain my point of view.
It’s quite clear to me that many people will laugh out loudly when they are asked to give away money for a program’s theme as there are that many who offer such things for nothing. So do I.
But you have to look a bit closer…

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