Quinn

I had to add a tweak in my blog since I was still getting spammed after the previous modifications. This is sad because it's forcing good people to do an additional task for posting. A simple math question is required to answer for posting a comment now. The question says like "Please add 7 and 8. Then, put the number here » [textbox]. I am not sure this sounds right. It's somehow harder to say simple sentences, especially when it comes to math. I went to college in the USA but I don't remember much of the math classes. So whoever come to see this as funny English in some way, please let me know it. Thanks.

Well, as the title says, my blog is getting spammed. My blog is not run by the world famous blog tool like WordPress or Movable Type. This is only a hand made version of it, which is built by me. I thought nobody would really bother to send spamming POST requests just to spam this blog. I was wrong. Someone out there has invested time to do such a thing. Oh, WTF, wasting time of life.. Doesn't this person have something better things do?

I made a few changes lately. So, it no longer accept just POST requests. You have to actually visit the page, sending a GET request and establish the session with COOKIE enabled, then this blog accepts a POST request for a comment. I also blocked some string patterns that they use, which are obviousely not very common to usual comment posts.

I suppose this is not enough yet. I am stiil getting some spamming going through the filter. But it seems successfully eliminating some of them.

What I don't understand is that I am getting spammed only for a single post page Teacher Me? from a verious IP addresses. I don't know what kind of method is used to do such a task. It looks like human inputs but not totally. I probably should have been more careful in the first place. But this is just making me a better web developer, so thanks whoever this person is..

Yes, I am so slow at writing posts for this blog. Despite of my laziness, I am so far doing pretty good as a freelance web developer this year. And I even finished a book, which I barely do.

Well, this is a thin book, easy to read, and particulary in my interest! This book showed me how to make good decisions for designing websites, especially in the view from users. I think it is well described in the book's title. It talks about web usability. Things are mostly I knew from experiences, but I was amazed how stuff are articlated in words. I never can do that. It was fun reading this book. After all, I am looking forward myself doing better jobs for coming projects!

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