Andrew Hutchings

The recent trend of entries about Habari con­tin­ues, with an Akismet plu­gin. Other alter­na­tives exist if you’re not a fan of Akismet. (Defen­sio, Mol­lom, Sim­ple Black­list, the core spam checker, etc.) A Type­Pad Anti­Spam plu­gin will be com­ing soon. Type­Pad Anti­Spam sup­port was added to the Akismet plu­gin in ver­sion 0.1.0.…

As of last night, this site is run­ning on Habari again (from Dru­pal, from Nis­aba, from Habari…). I am using quite a few plu­g­ins for site opti­miza­tion — here are two. The Google Ana­lyt­ics plu­gin is orig­i­nally by Gra­ham Chris­tensen, the Cache Gists plu­gin is my own cre­ation. Both of these plu­g­ins were tested with ver­sion 0.6 of Habari.…

If you’ve ever shared code snip­pets online, you’ve prob­a­bly heard of Pastie or Paste­bin. What you may not have heard about is GitHub’s Gist ser­vice. Basi­cally, take the fea­tures of exist­ing paste­bins, and add ver­sion­ing, SSL, and fork­ing. Very cool stuff.…

*[API]: Appli­ca­tion Pro­gram­ming Inter­face *[XSS]: Cross-​Site Scripting…