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New Commenting Policy?

In the recent weeks, I have gotten quite a bit of not-quite-but-nearly-totally-spam-that-duisguises-really-well. As a result, I removed my DoFollow plugin.
But I don’t really like that solution.
I think I might change my approach and make a new commenting policy rule. A quite simple one at that: Every comment that uses some kind of product name as [...]

Creating my own little Portal Site

As you may or may not have noticed, I now have a second blog: haslos Politblog. I decided I’d want to blog about Swiss politics from time to time as well, and with this blog being English only and having a global rather than Swiss target audience, these subjects didn’t really fit in here.
So I [...]

WordPress Themes have to be GPL (Thesis etc.)

Well, my comment at the Thesis blog is “awaiting moderation” for over 2 weeks, so I guess it won’t happen anymore. Unsurprisingly so, I might add. The folks at Thesis are apparently, essentially, doing illegal things. The only reason why they can do it is because nobody sues them.
First things first: WordPress themes are GPL, [...]

Getting MySQL 5.0 to work in Ruby 1.9.1 on Windows 7

So, I got MySQL to work for my Ruby on Rails development environment. Let’s be clear about what I actually wanted:

Ruby 1.9.1
Rails 2.3.2
Any version of MySQL whatsoever
Any way whatsoever to make my up-to-date Ruby on Rails talk to that MySQL

I don’t care what version of MySQL. I don’t care if I have to force platforms [...]

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