Today was an unwanted day of tinkering with and explaining spam defenses. Spam comes in many formats. The two that affect me the most are email spam and comment spam. Email Spam At the office, I have many layers of spam defenses. One of those layers are DNSBLs. DNS Stuff maintains a list of roughly …
Category Archives: Web Applications
Mixd Texts Goodbye
I received a text message today from Yahoo’s Mixd service saying their “pilot study will end on Feb 25th and that the service will no longer be available.” Bummer, for Mixd proved to be very useful last month when 20 Lambda Chi Alpha staff members were stranded in various airports in a effort to get …
The Machine is Us
I enjoyed this video, which nicely illustrates the advancements of user-generated content (Web 2.0) technologies.
Will Icebrrg be a cooler Wufoo?
Building online forms used to be the bane of web developers. Forms require not only more markup, but a back-end script to process them. Many often require a database. All of which add complexity to building useful forms. When Wufoo launched a web application in July 2006 that eases the complexity of online forms, many …
Microsoft Patch Tuesday yields no IE7
Although Brian Krebs from the Washington Post recently reported that “Microsoft plans to push out Internet Explorer 7 as a ‘high priority update’ when it ships security patches tomorrow [October 10, 2006],” it doesn’t appear to be the case. At 6:00 pm EDT, my Microsoft Update yielded 14 High Priority Updates, none of which were …