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Version Control System Comparison
Version Control System Comparison. Why moving to CVS in your organization/project may not be the best idea: Atomic commits - CVS doesn't have this. Renaming support - CVS doesn't have this (there are ways to hack around this, but you will lose revision history). There are better choices out there.
Sidenote: I've been posting quite a few "Asides" recently. On my todo list is to offer an RSS feed without these "Asides" posts.
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Simple anti-comment spam measure
Thanks to Patrick Strang who pointed me to Steven Geen's simple anti-comment spam measure for MovableType, I managed to stem the current flow of "Please approve this comment" emails flooding my inbox. This has been happening since last Saturday! Argh! Why are they doing this even when everything goes into the moderation queue?
Anyway, it's so simple to get this into WordPress - just edit wp-comments.php and wp-comments-post.php to add the field to the comment form (see below) and die() when the correct "letter of the day" isn't entered. (Though die()ing isn't the most elegant way, but WordPress does this for the other fields as well.)
Check out the comment form if the picture above is too small. Sorry to have to put you commentors through this, but it's really for my sanity. At least it isn't one of those randomly-generated graphical thingies that really ensures you are human (or an equivalent intelligent lifeform).
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IE-only, no Firefox
Vanessa Tan laments the no Firefox, IE-only policy in her organization. How many of you work in organizations like hers? (Mine happens to practice freedom of choice.)
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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 released
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 is out. Get it at the Thunderbird 0.9 release FTP folder. If I have time later today, I'll probably write up on the new stuff.
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Firefox NYT ad campaign covered in local paper (and I'm in there too)
Well, Streats isn't exactly a high-profile paper (its parent company, Singapore Press Holdings, publishes The Straits Times which is in much greater circulation), but it does get around (and its website does validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, FWIW).
Anyway, here's the article: S'poreans back free browser. I'm quoted in there saying (pessimistically):
A few Singaporeans, myself included, have actually thought of doing the same (advertise) with a local paper, but prices are high and it would be a challenge considering the penetration of Firefox in Singapore.
Of the (relatively) long reply I sent to Chris (the journalist) for the email interview, I can't say I wasn't a tad disappointed that that bit was published. But oh well, at least it got the word on Firefox out. Interestingly, someone from Singapore (I can tell from the IP) wrote a comment saying my blog "sucks shit". Thanks Kathy I bet it does. And good day to you too m'am. Another guy wrote me an email coming in from the Streats article asking me to point out the influential bloggers in Singapore and South East Asia. (Yes we do exist!)
Christopher Lim (the journalist who interviewed me via email, and get this: via SMS) wrote us Singapore donors an email asking our thoughts on the campaign and why we made our donations.
I am writing from Streats, the newspaper. Blake Ross from www.spreadfirefox.com passed me your emails after I explained that I'd like to run a story this coming Monday on Firefox's New York Times advertisement campaign, and am interested in interviewing donors from Singapore.
The To: header of that email tells me there were 14 Singaporeans who donated to the cause. Not bad I'd think, considering our small population and tighter fists. Chris Henry, another Singaporean donor, wrote about the article too in his sfx blog. Well, if any of you donors want to discuss more on "spreading Firefox" in Singapore, do join up at http://sg.firefoxsupport.com/ (it's not my site, in case you were wondering).
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