Archive for the “Programming” Category

Expanding the Extended Categories Widget

Recently I’ve gotten a few requests about implementing a new feature in my AVH Extended Categories Widget. I like the idea but I need help making a decision.
So I listed a few ideas on my forum. Please check it out and give some feedback please.

Git v1.6.5.3 Released

Version 1.6.5.3 of git has been released today. You can find them in my repository. More information about this repository on the appropriate page
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Stop spammers in your htaccess

Over a year a go I wrote an article on how to stop spammers by adding them in your .htaccess file.
In the article I mention a Python script that does the work for me. Well I decided, thanks to a comment in the article to publish the program here.
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Update Package: git 1.6.4 for Ubuntu Jaunty

A new version of git is released. I created the package for Ubuntu Jaunty and you can install it by adding my repository.
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Spammers trying to access my blog

In November of last year I suddenly got a more than usual amount of spammers hitting my blog and forum. I wrote a Python program that will retrieve my access logs, my htaccess file and a list from the website stopforumspam.com. It will update the htaccess file and can upload it back to the site and thus eliminating access to my site for those known spammers.

I thought it would be nice to share some statistics from the months December 2008, January and February of 2009.
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