internet

Clever spammers

There is no doubt - spammers are becoming cleverer every day. I've added CAPTCHA verification to my site in order to prevent spam comments from being submitted. It really helped - previously I used to remove about 10-20 of them on daily basis, offering everything from child pornography to grey mortgages.

Drupal modules

I like Drupal a lot. It's a great system, easy to set up and use, and the most important thing, there are plenty of modules, which provide additional functionality. However, every time the Drupal development team release a new major version, the module authors have to change their modules in order to adopt to the new platform.

Firefox 3.0 is out

Finally Firefox 3.0 is out, grab it fast :)

Firefox 3 - first impressions

Firefox Release Candidate 1 is available for download and I decided to give it a go. My first impressions are quite positive - performance is must better on the same machine, the design has been improved and they have added quite a few usability features.

Gmail and IMAP

Looks like IMAP support has been added to GMail. More details at Google help center

New road for Mozilla's e-mail client

According to the press release from Mozilla Foundation, there is a new e-mail initiative, which will be developed via a separate entity to be formed by Mozilla and the head of ActiveState.

MySQL 5

I have upgraded my hosting database to MySQL 5. Let's see whether it gives me any trouble. So far it seems to be much faster, than the previous version.

Cassini - web server in .NET

Some time ago Microsoft released a free sample - an HTTP server, written completely in .NET and able to host ASP.NET applications. It has been extended and improved by some other company, which now makes it available for download.

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