Month: June 2009

Overactive Akismet

I’ve always really ignored the comment moderation queue, generally trusting Akismet to filter out the spam and only let real comments through.  I’ve actually been very pleased with it as it has stopped comment spam coming through, which was initially quite a nuisance.  This evening though (as I currently can’t get to sleep) I decided to have a look through the comments that Akismet has marked as spam. Continue reading Overactive Akismet

IE8 “feature comparison”

I’ll admit straight up that I haven’t really used IE8.  I’ll also happily concede that IE8 is probably a good deal better at rendering standards-compliant things than IE6 and IE7.  I’m also happy that with the release of IE8, the death of IE6 is that little bit closer (something that will make any web developer happy, I believe).  I have to say, though, that I was highly disappointed by Microsoft when they released this article.  I feel it’s sad that whoever wrote the article felt that IE8 could not stand on its own merits and so had to do some, ah, creative spinning of the truth to promote it instead.

Sitecore v6.0

Yesterday I took my “upgrade” certification exam to upgrade my Sitecore 5.3 certification that I obtained last August to to the recently released version 6.0. Sitecore is a highly adaptable and extremely powerful CMS that bit10 chose as its CMS of choice.  After reviewing a fair number of competing offerings (including Amaxus and Ektron), we found Sitecore to be a superior offering. Continue reading Sitecore v6.0

ASP.Net MVC Framework – Initial Thoughts

Having just completed a relatively large project using the newly released ASP.Net MVC Framework, I thought this would be a good time to post my thoughts on the framework.  I have to say that the bulk of my experience with MVC framework comes from my time using Ruby on Rails, so many of my perceptions will be coloured by this. Continue reading ASP.Net MVC Framework – Initial Thoughts

Chocolate Brownies

After doing a bit of baking this weekend I came up with an – if I do say so myself – especially good batch of chocolate brownies.  I thought that I’d share the recipe on here because I know that not everyone who reads this blog is interested in the techie stuff… and they really are delicious. Continue reading Chocolate Brownies