Every year for the last several years the developers of git ask the git users to fill out a survey. Today, September 1, 2010, is the start of the 2010 survey. If you use git please fill out the survey, it’s helpful for the developers to determine which parts of git development they should focus on.
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In the release notes of git 1.6.6 an important section was written about the upcoming version 1.7.0
I think it’s important enough to dedicate a separate article on it.
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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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To reduce bandwidth and speed you can install mod_gzip or mod_deflate with your Apache configuration. Unfortunately there are hosting providers who don’t have either of these modules installed.
With a little bash scripting and some modifications of your .htaccess you can accomplish almost the same thing. If you run a dynamic site, with PHP for example, you can’t compress the HTML file itself but you can compress Javascript and Style Sheets files.
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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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