May 18th, 2007 @ 11:19 by Mike
So, the only week away from a PC and
has been discovered a vulnerability in the
Askimet plugin for Wordpress.
The vulnerability has
been promptly fixed with the version 2.0.2, but there is no word about this release on the
Askimet blog.
That’s really
strange.
Mike
PS:
Wordpress 2.2 is out!! We will update this blog soon (and, after the
sponsored-theme issue, with a new theme).
May 12th, 2007 @ 8:35 by Mike
We’re glad to
announce that
Open Sitemap Generator is now a
db4o Community Project.
You can access its Project Space
here.
Thanks to
German for his support.
Mike
May 7th, 2007 @ 14:23 by Mike
The version 0.6 is out!
In this new version we’re using the great
db4o technology to store all the retrieved URLs.
At the moment it’s only a temporary database that is deleted at the crawling’s end, but this will enable us to add a sitemaps management in a future version.
So the
main new features are: splitting big sitemaps and using an
index file, added an option to
ignore html comments, also an
installer version (this software is still
fully portable).
All the news about this version and a download link are available at the
OSG home page.
Mike
May 4th, 2007 @ 17:02 by Mike
So, as known,
Wordpress 2.2 has been delayed from its original 23rd April release date.
The reason is that the
tagging system will not be added in this release.
The developer team is analyzing a
new taxonomy system that should be more powerful than the first implementation.
We’re waiting the 2.2 to update this blog that is using at the moment the 2.0.x code.
Mike
May 2nd, 2007 @ 15:06 by Mike
If is true that the most you are popular the most you receive spam, we are getting real popular!
In the last weeks, we are receiving a lot of spam in the quotations comment system (which is open for everyone) on our
main site.
We have also a lot of spam on our
citaBlog (and only a little noise on this quite-unknow side blog) that we fight very well with the
Askimet Wordpress plugin.
So, when the level of spam comments on our quotations archive went too high, we’ve looked for a way to use Askimet also with that not-on-a-blog spam.
A fast search let us find
MicroAskimet, a simple php interface to use the Askimet service, available as a class or as standalone functions.
It took 15 minutes to code (using the standalone functions implementation) and it’s working perfectly: no more wasting time deleting spam comments!
Mike