Hot Dorkage

Disable Akismet = spike in visits

Colleen — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:29:00 +0000

I recently migrated all my blogs to WordPress 3.0. One of the things you do is temporarily disable all plugins including Akismet spam filter. During the short period of time the spam filter was off I received, and had to later kill, more spam than I would normally receive in a week. And . . . → Read More: Disable Akismet = spike in visits

Please Excuse our mess

Colleen — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:50:47 +0000

I upgraded from my own home brewed wordpress mu to 3.0 RC3 with multi. They implement multi in fundamentally differenent ways than I did, and I needed to also move some other non blog projects on the dorkage domain around. Needless to say, there will be a few glitches and I don’t have . . . → Read More: Please Excuse our mess

How my jQuery Drag’n'Drop Jigsaw works

Colleen — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:17:23 +0000

I had a kind of implied request to talk about the code in this jquery jigsaw puzzle. I sort of figured you can grab a copy if you like, but maybe a little expository prose will enable you to focus on the salient parts of the script. This script makes use of several of the . . . → Read More: How my jQuery Drag’n'Drop Jigsaw works

jQuery jigsaw

Colleen — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:30:39 +0000

The first time I googled “jquery jigsaw” I didn’t find too much. I found http://www.vladstudio.com/jigsawpuzzles/ and Fernando’s very simple one What I was wanting to do was bring some of my old Hypercard stacks from the 90′s back to life. Yeah, Hypercard had drag and drop way back then. Anyway, . . . → Read More: jQuery jigsaw

New Facebook “Like Button” Dorkage

Colleen — Sun, 09 May 2010 15:59:45 +0000

Facebook, as you may know, is attempting to own a greater share of the web by allowing you to put a facebook “like” button and other social widgets on any web page. Think what you like about Facebook, their questionable privacy, and their evil plans, but the fact remains that it is the #4 most visited . . . → Read More: New Facebook “Like Button” Dorkage

ACH Fraud becoming ever more clever

Colleen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:57:35 +0000

Last week I saw Hal Pomeranz of the SANS institute give a talk on how ACH (Automated Clearing House) fraud has become increasingly more sophisticated. It is a serious problem and it’s beginning to have a non negligible economic impact on business here in the USA. In this blog post I will summarize . . . → Read More: ACH Fraud becoming ever more clever

Random Fiber Arts Dorkage

Colleen — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:00:21 +0000

It’s funny how things confluence. A while back I did a post spreading the word about 2-D bar codes. Just recently I attended Beaver Bar Camp and went to an un-session titled Nerdlepoint by a woman from Portland OR named Julia (sorry, bar camps are so anarchistic that I couldn’t find . . . → Read More: Random Fiber Arts Dorkage

Adventures in Resource Mining

Colleen — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:14:37 +0000

In my previous post in this series, I described some ancient software that I wrote years ago that I would like to recycle for the web. This post focuses on massaging the existing resources so that they are web-ready. Boring, but critical, and not so easy, as it turned out! . . . → Read More: Adventures in Resource Mining

Hypercard What has thou wrought?

Colleen — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:46:12 +0000

This series of posts is planned to document of some my adventures trying to leverage an abandoned Hypercard opus I did a long time ago. It’s more of a narrative than a how to. A lot of different realms come into play here. So if you aren’t up for reading . . . → Read More: Hypercard What has thou wrought?

Embed.ly: One API to rule them all

Colleen — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:03:49 +0000

Something very very cool fell into my inbox today.

The back story I had been researching OEmbed kind of as a background project to see if I could use it in my own stuff. Now what is OEmbed, you ask? It is a specification by which a simple link transforms itself into rich content. If . . . → Read More: Embed.ly: One API to rule them all