Santa was putting the finishing touches on his official “naughty or nice” list this year when something terrible happened! The magic snowball that tells him who’s been good went on the fritz!
With Winter Warlock on vacation in the Bahamas, there was not time to get it repaired. Fortunately, there were only three children left on the list who did not have a checkmark in the good or bad column, and they were all siblings in the Smith household.
If you’re a web developer, you owe it to yourself to grab the Firebug extension for Firefox. The beta is not yet perfect, but you can see the power that the final version wil offer, and start to drool over the debugging features. Seriously, if you’ve ever developed using a real IDE with a real debugger, you will love this thing.
Sorry, gang. Some doofuses are sending spam comments into my server (and a few other things, it seems) at a rate that’s too fast for Apache to keep up. As a result, Apache just seems to hang and become unresponsive.
Unable to detect when an incoming request is a valid commenter before passing the request on to WordPress’ comment processing system, leaving this unchecked takes down the whole server within a minute or two. There’s nothing to do about it but research the incoming requests and, in the meantime, disable the comment form. Rather, the thing that processes the comments for WordPress.
This “fish tank on your TV” product is kind of interesting, but it’s really the advertising that has me mesmerized for some reason.