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{ Monthly Archives } February 2008

Don’t Settle for Mediocrity on the Web

When I browse the web looking to purchase a service, I find there are two pretty distinct kinds of sites. One feels like it was made in the early 90’s: it’s mostly functional, almost renders correctly, and has the odd combination of distracting images and colors we thought was a good idea back [...]

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Turns out greylisting is awesome

I used to get several hundred spam emails a day on micropipes.com. I wasn’t thrilled with having a four or five digit message count in my spam folder, but I deleted the few that slipped through each day and didn’t think about it much more. Someone else running a domain on this server [...]

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Mmmm…. scams… (part 2)

I think it must be my old age shining through but rather than go down to the meeting and cause hate and discontent I decided to repair a hole in my kitchen floor instead. As much as I enjoy awkward conversations (when I’m the instigator), it just seemed like a lot of effort - [...]

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Mmmm…. scams… (part 1?)

This afternoon my neighbor (who I’d never met before) showed up at my door with a bundle of bright pink papers. He explained to me that he was inviting me to a meeting tomorrow at our local library that would help me make vast amounts of money. Oh really?
I probed for some details [...]

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10000 commits and going strong

Mozilla’s SVN repository was started on September 2nd, 2006 and just hit 10000 commits. That’s an average of over 19 commits a day for 520 days straight!
After my positive experience with python I was gearing up for a script to do some repository analysis when I ran across MPY SVN Stats. After a [...]

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Ignite Portland was a huge success

I took the afternoon off work so I could drive to Portland to attend Ignite Portland. The introduction didn’t start until 6:20pm - I drove past the theatre at 4:45pm and there was already a line. The 500 person seating limit was filled while there were still people waiting in line. I [...]

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Curious about how your add-on will get along with Firefox 3?

Firefox 3 is coming down the pipeline along with a pile of great new features like caching web apps so they are available offline and the new Places API that provides a powerful interface to your bookmarks and history. No need to fret if your extensions will be compatible though - here’s the lowdown [...]

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