May 2006 Archives

I noticed an interesting trend today: this blog has had 6 legitimate trackbacks and 36 spam ones. It's also had 200 real comments and 0 spam comments. The blog software has caught every single spam trackback and marked them correctly as spam. There haven't been any spam comments caught because I have not had a single spam comment since I moved this blog to Quick Blog.

You read that right: not a one. I think the CAPTCHA is the main reason. (By way of contrast, my WordPress blog gets about a dozen or two spam comments a day. It captures them all, but only because I've set it up so that any comment with a link goes to moderation. That's pretty tight and that's marking them for future review—an annoying chore.

I like my job.

[The views expressed on this website/weblog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of Go Daddy Software, Inc.]

I've just deployed v1.2.3 of Quick Blog and I feel relieved. I haven't been blogging much either here or at Found on the Web because I've been furiously developing. It's been a rough few weeks as deadlines passed, features morphed, and frustration flared.

Luckily, everyone here's been really supportive and understanding. I figured I would be fired after the third deadline was missed, but that turned out to be paranoid thinking on my part. Everybody just wanted the app released in a good state and as soon as it could be. I felt very reassured and optimistic about the future.

So I will resume regular posting on both blogs pretty soon.

[UPDATE (5/22/2006): Cool, my feature has inspired some adulation.]

[The views expressed on this website/weblog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of Go Daddy Software, Inc.]