Update: Due to lack of time and interest (on my part), I am no longer maintaining JSSpamBlock or ImageScaler.
WordPress has a cool WYSIWIG editor that lets you easily resize images by dragging the corner around. The problem is that WordPress does not actually resize the image, it just tells the browser to display it smaller. [...]
Update: Due to lack of time and interest (on my part), I am no longer maintaining JSSpamBlock or ImageScaler.
I have made a few small changes to JSSpamBlock, my WordPress spam detection plugin. I found that the plugin had some problems with custom WordPress themes, since some theme developers apparently don’t include the comment form hook. [...]
Update: Due to lack of time and interest (on my part), I am no longer maintaining JSSpamBlock or ImageScaler.
I got my first comment spam on this blog the other day. It inspired me to try an idea I got a few months back. My theory was that these bots aren’t very smart – they are [...]
I'm Paul Butler, a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo. I grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In my free time, I write code for open-source and my own projects. Away from the keyboard, I enjoy reading, sailing, running, geocaching, travel, and learning French.
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