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This time last year I wrote about the relationship between countries and spam levels. Since then I've kept a more detailed record of banning activity, which I've just now analysed. This chart shows the percentage of users that ended up banned, and it now discriminates based on the reason for the …
So IE8 has been out in the wild for a few weeks now. It hasn't exactly taken the web world by storm (not that anyone expected it would) but it's certainly a step in the right direction, and brings us closer to a having some semblance of a unified web platform. This is a good thing for web …
It's been a while, but I thought I'd finish the trio of articles about Whirlcode 2.0, if only to tie up this saga into a nice bow. To briefly recap, I've written a markup language parser in JavaScript, which has now been in use on whirlpool.net.au for the better part of a year. This final …
Previously, I've talked in general terms about Whirlcode 2, which is a mark-up language tailored for use on whirlpool.net.au, and coded in JavaScript.
One of the most challenging part of the code was to ensure reliable handling of excessively long string
User-generated content sites like Wikipedia and Whirlpool rely heavily on the ability for users to submit richly and contextually marked up content; everything from references to quotations, from links to lists. And this ability needs to be given to a lar
Whirlpool has its own forum mark-up language which we call Whirlcode; it's analogous to, but not the same as BBCode. In recent weeks I've been considering how to improve the Whirlcode syntax, particularly now that it's being used to mark up more complex d
Search is the dominant form of navigation on the internet; when it works, it's the fastest way to get where you want to go. Yet when it comes to site search, many websites really phone it in. As a result, users have started ignoring site search boxes enti
I run what could quite possibly be the highest trafficked ColdFusion/MySQL website out there, and while our web hosting benefactors have been gracious, we really don't have the computing power needed to competently handle the million or so page views we g
It's been in the news. People have been talking about it incessantly for the past year. But there's a simple truth behind the chatter — the iPhone is not available in Australia. Officially.
We may be girt by sea, but that hasn't stopped a phenomena
A few weeks ago I spotted and deleted some spam posts made on Whirlpool by a Chinese iPhone knock-off manufacturer. These were cleverer attempts than most — at least they attempted to generate a plausible thread of discussion. Most spam we get is th
