Back from vacation
I have had a great and relaxing vacation and came back to work yesterday. Still it is somewhat weird that after four weeks of vacation I only had time to take my sailing boat out for the first time yesterday evening. It was wonderful – slowly sailing around the nearby islands in the inner archipelago of Karlskrona. My traditional wooden boat only leaked very little…
More annoyingly my simple comment spam prevention I put in place here on dotvoid.com early this summer has leaked considerably. I have just cleaned out all the spam and put more rules in place and it should be harder for the bots now. I must take some time to have a closer look at what techniques are best for spam prevention besides captcha when I’m not as busy.
Something that made me much happier was an offer to write an article on a specific subject for a large PHP magazine. It would be interesting to know what kind of payment one should expect for a multiple page article… It still isn’t clear after asking.
I have finally had enough time to work on our Swedish project Mitt City with its fifty city portals and they are now going live. Many features are still missing but we will add them one after another the following months as well as fixing issues we have found. It feels really good to have the project going again. Especially since it is based completely on PHP 5, PDO and MySQL 5.
After working with Mitt City spending months with PHP 5 as well as MySQL I am amazed that so few are leaving PHP 4 way behind. I will not look back.
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