Month: June 2006

Akismet for Drupal works great

Since “spam.module”:http://drupal.org/project/spam got no 4.7 port, I’ve been using the “badbehavior”:http://drupal.org/node/30501 module to deal with comment spammers. It worked great until recently. When I started to have to delete the spams daily again, I know things are not right.

By chance, on my Drupal wishes had come true and “phpmix.org”:http://www.phpmix.org released “Akismet module”:http://www.phpmix.org/projects/drupal/4_7/akismet for Drupal just earlier this month. I tried it, and it works great.

It’s a breeze to set up (easier than badbehavior) and dealt with the common cases right away. (better than with spam.module, where you had to train it yourself or pre-load huge training database) First I thought it can’t deal with the “empty spam”:http://drupal.org/node/67670 case, but after 2 days of training it has since caught every single on of them.

And Chris’s a happy man gain.

P.S. The _empty_ spam seems quite a rare case, but happens on “other platform”:http://karavshin.org/blogs/black-coffee/archive/001524.html as well. I’m not sure what this strange case will lead to, but I’m glad I’m not part of it now.

Wonder of Hollywood

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Joe’s Goals

I wish more applications out there resemble “Joe’s Goals.”:http://www.joesgoals.com After 2 minutes, I already know it’s something I’ll be using quite lot. In a crowded sector of online todo list, Joe’s Goals differentiated itself by focussing on the daily todos (and don’ts) and keeping track record of which you actually accomplished or commited each day. […]