Month: January 2014
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how to prevent WordPress blog SPAM?
As long as I blogged with Blogger.com, blog SPAM never was a serious issue. Now with my self-hosted WordPress blog(s), that became a very serious issue all of a sudden. Yes, I should just not worry, and just reserve a small weekly (or maybe daily) time-window for moderating the comments – yes, I enforced strict…
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just came across the “Rust” programming language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language) https://twitter.com/wycats/status/420516814473277440 – this is the tweet, that made me look Rust up
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Bassett’s Winegums, Maynards Winegums
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bassetts-Winegums/47076432241 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_gum http://www.worldofsweets.de/Gummibaerchen/Weingummi/Bassett-s-Traditional-Winegums.html Amazon sells them, too I wasn’t able to find further prominent web pages. They are written wine gums or winegums. The box right in front of me says “Bassett’s Winegums“. This box is a present for herding a friends’ cat.
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WordPress Plugins: WordPress MU Domain Mapping
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/
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WordPress: how to close commenting on a specific article?
Certain articles seem to magically attract spam, so I would like to close commenting on them. Update 2014-01-07: Through “Quick Edit” I can reach “Allow Comments“, that’s exactly, what I need.
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O’Reilly Media book: Making Software
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596808303.do Many claims are made about how certain tools, technologies, and practices improve software development. But which claims are verifiable, and which are merely wishful thinking? In this book, leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenham offer essays that uncover the truth and unmask myths commonly held among the software development…
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: The Healthy Programmer: Get Fit, Feel Better, and Keep Coding
http://pragprog.com/book/jkthp/the-healthy-programmer
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InformIT: Peter Smith’s “Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience”
http://www.informit.com/store/software-build-systems-principles-and-experience-9780321769442 http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321769442 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780321769442 from Chapter 16: Tool Management: Tool Rules take notes (very, very detailed — nice!) use version control for the source code periodically upgrade tools use version control for the tool binaries There is a very nice and enjoyable section on “breaking the rules”.
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InformIT: The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
http://www.informit.com/store/pragmatic-programmer-from-journeyman-to-master-9780321770554
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InformIT: Design Patterns in Ruby
http://www.informit.com/store/design-patterns-in-ruby-9780321490452 Quite a little aged. But I just wanted to list all my InformIT / Addison Wesley books here.