I wanted to follow up on my previous post about dealing with blog spam.
I installed Akismet and it has worked flawlessly. It has caught dozens of blog spam posts so far. I have had no false positives and no false negatives yet (i.e. it has correctly identified every comment). The only downside is that for [...]

I assume that many of my readers are technical people and as such are likely to be bloggers themselves, so I post the question to you: How do you deal with blog spam?
I’m currently getting on the order of 30-40 blog spam posts a day. While WordPress does a good job of catching them, and [...]

Firefox 2 is just around the corner. With the recent release of Firefox 2 RC2 I’ve started using it more. It has a number of new features that you can read about in the release notes. I’ve already written about JavaScript 1.7 which adds some cool new features for developers. Of course those will only [...]

Seek and ye shall find.
I posted yesterday about the trials and tribulations of code formatting. While I’ve solved the basic problems of displaying code, we spoiled programmers have gotten really used to syntax highlighting. Syntax highlighting offers a lot of visual differentiation of text which makes it a lot easer to read code.
Brennan posted a [...]

I finally got tired of dealing with reformatting that Wordpress does in its attempt to be “user friendly”. In general it does the right thing, but when you deal with code snipits inside <code> tags a lot it can quickly become a problem.

In just a few easy steps, the problems can be solved.