As you may not notice, but since the last change on the site outlook early this year, Theo’s Weblog was decorated with some kind of pattern…
It is actually call QRCode, a 2D barcode widely use in Japan!
Many mobile phones in Japan comes with encoder/decoder build-in working with the digital camera, save ALOT of typing isn’t it?
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I actually did the code quite sometime ago, but completely forgot about it….
You can try a online demo here!
Nice to catch a few bugs, and some improvements: like bugs of missing comment(s) in comment auditing system , error of timeout due to long loop in index page, cleaner and faster code…….
A few new features were planned, like RSS for comments, more auto notice to comments reply, even some fancy version of the weblog (Flash with FLAX, AJAX version), but I really don’t have the time for it right now, keep them in my head, do them while I can.
My feeling on Perl is….
It is hard to learn, has a way longer learning curve, compare to PHP, but if a user spend enough time on it, I think the long learning curve DOES worth it!
P.S: Hum………just thought of it….wonder does mate D still uses Perl now?
Since I started to introduce the comment system on the weblog, I recieve SPAMs on the comments every single day (or few hours?)…
Points:
1/. If you are spammer, stop spamming my weblog, as I manualy audit EVERY single comment, you won’t get in by any mean, any chance.
2/. Do these sapmmer really think people are going to go their website/buy their product/use their service when they spam on others?
I personally WILL NOT! and ever.
Luckily I only did comment for Theo’s weblog, which is easiler to admin, can’t think of trackbacks or others……
Spend about 4 hours on the backend of the Weblog, now it is more friendly to admin on mobile devices. (Was having quite a bit cookie problem with Blazer on Treo650 before…)
Also add in quick comment audit/remove/remove spam function, with notice email sent to comment poster about their comments being approved.
Programming this Weblog is just so fun!
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As you may already see, I am back for some programming on the weblog.
Comment system has been developed, I try my best to keep it simple so I gave authentication like radom picture code a pass, anyway I would like to audit whats in the comment before it is publish anyway, please feel free to do give it a try.
Back to Trackbacks, I think it is such a great idea of letting Bloggers to actually “tell” the original poster about their link or referral, but it also come up to my attention:
“Some individuals or companies have abused the TrackBack feature to insert spam links on some blogs (see sping). This is similar to comment spam but avoids some of the safeguards designed to stop the latter practice. As a result, TrackBack spam filters similar to those implemented against comment spam now exist in many weblog publishing systems. Many blogs have stopped using trackbacks because dealing with spam became too burdensome.”
Quote from WiKi of Trackbacks
I think technically Trackbacks isn’t very hard to develope for Theo’s weblog, but with the above issue I am quite concern about it…
To be? Or not to be?
Hum, I would really love to have more function l think….
Example:
Trackback , Comments, more Mobile friendly, themes, better admin system, email/SMS/MMS to Weblog….etc etc….
Think I should spend sometime on him…
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The Weblog has a new look!
Spend a little bit time on just a little bit more visual changes by CSS.
What do you think?
Anyway these are the archive of how the weblog used to look.
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Year 2005
Year 2004
Hum… these update seems not so “visible”..
Added:
– Site icon in Firefox (I just love this icon!)
– RSS support in Firefox
– “Track back this article” function, allowing user to link to each arcticle easily. (20060310 Removed, for now, untill I think of a better idea..)
– Fixed the counter XML err (or mistake?).
– Fixed a few bugs.
– Changed the background color “just a little bit” darker..
Ok thats it for the morning, maybe more tonight…
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Hum, first time I ever notice it before it was fix…
The down time was cause by invaild chars in the counter XML…Luckly it was down for only a few hours and it is a quick fix…(come on, this is a weblog, not a online store…hehe)
Sounds like more code time..Ok….SQL or not??
Find that my hosting has changed some setting in the server for better security, (NB you should have notice me…..) some of the cgi may have to be change/mod to work in the new ENV……
If you find a bug, or error, please do let me know….
I will try to fix it/them…..
