Had a wonderful if exhausting day at the Chelsea flower show yesterday – I’ve uploaded a few of the 141 photos I took to flickr here. More of them coming soon when I get time to upload them to my local photo gallery.
Month: May 2005
nofollow revisited
io error has write a long and interesting article – “Nofollow revisited” – taking a look at the affect nofollow has had on the web since google introduced it about 4 months ago. The article contains some very interesting points and I have to agree with him in the fact implementing nofollow has had no real effect on the amount of comment spam attempts received on this site – the most sure fire way to reduce comment spam attempts seems to be to not post – every time I get round to making a new post a new set of attempts start to flood in a few hours later!
So far I have resisted using a nonofollow plugin on my site – mainly because I don’t exactly get that many comments and so I doubt I would be sharing much google juice – however this site does have a PageRank of 5 so I must be doing something right!
In general I have found that the combination of BadBehaviour and Spam Karma 2 keeps my site free of all but the most determined comment spammers – I think it may be time to abandon nofollow.
Spam Karma 2 goes beta
Following in the footsteps of the WordPress v1.5.1 release DrDave has released the first public beta of Spam Karma 2 – If you’re still running the original Spam Karma then go and upgrade it’s well worth it!
Discovering if you’re running on a RightToLeft Windows Operating System
I am currently working on ensuring that a chunk of VB6 code behave well on particular targeted versions of windows as part of an internationalised release of a software product. In order to complete the user experience I needed to detect whether or not we were running on one of the few windows versions that works RightToLeft instead of LeftToRight (I believe this is just Arabic and Hebrew windows although I may be wrong!). I’ve spent a good few hours over the past couple of days trying to track a way of doing this down. Searching MSDN and the www via google brought no luck. I tried a great variety of search terms including: “RightToLeft Windows detecting“, “RTL”
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