Posts tagged: news
Changing Code Syntax Highlighters
Most of the posts I author here contain code examples. To highlight these code examples I’ve been using the wordpress plugin SyntaxHighlighter Evolved. For the most part this plugin has served me, and I hope you, well. There are a few quirks, however, that continue to annoy me about this plugin. Chief among those quirks […] Read More →
Now HTTPS
Over this past weekend I reconfigured this site to use HTTPS by default. This is something I’ve been interested in doing for some time, partly due to a desire to improve general online security in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, but also because Google recently announced that they would be begin using HTTPS […] Read More →
Blame The Spammers
When I first started this blog I wanted those that visited here be free to leave comments without the need for said comments to be approved before they were posted. Unfortunately the amount of spam I’m getting now exceeds my ability to keep up with them. So, from now on those that leave a comment […] Read More →
Content Scraping and Attribution
Last week I recieved a “pingback” on this post. I was curious about what may have been discussed so I navigated to the site and discovered they had simply scraped the entire post, representing it as their own. Content scraping is nothing new of course and happens all the time on large, popular sites, but […] Read More →
Mint Analytics Added
Friends, a quick post to let you know that I’ve added Mint to the site. What’s Mint? It’s a self-hosted web site analytics program. I was interested obtaining more information about who is referrering readers to the site, popular pages, top searches, etc, but found the tools offered by my web host bluehost lacking. Here’s […] Read More →