June 2011

29 Jun

Testing Disqus Comments and Dealing with Spam

Posted by matt in spam

I have been inundated with Spam, with peaks of 1,400+ spam requests per day. I'm experimenting with various work-arounds. Mollom has not helped enough, so I'm trying Disqus and Akismet. Right now I have disabled old comments and enabled Disqus. This means old comments are no longer available. I might do a migration in the future, but during my testing phase, I don't think it's worth it.

So if your pithy comment is currently not available, please don't be offended. Blame the evil comment spammers... or my ineptitude.

07 Jun

Drupal Easy, Episode 59

Posted by matt in drupal, php

Yesterday, I had the privilege of hanging out with Ryan and Mike from DrupalEasy. We had a great time talking about recent changes in Drupal 7's bug release cycle, DataTables, Schema.org and other stuff. We talked a little about the Aloha Editor, too -- a project my friend Henry Bergius is involved in.

Two years ago I was on DrupalEasy talking about my Drupal 6, JavaScript, and jQuery book. This time we talked about Drupal 7 Module Development. I figure I might as well plan now on doing an episode in two years on a Drupal 8 book.