Date: 12/07/04     Keywords: no keywords

I was looking at the profanity filter from Travis for comments. Interestingly "god" is in the badwords array along f*k, s*t and its ilk! And the way to make "god" good is by changing Him to "g*d"!! What am I missing here :)

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/god-a-profanity/

Date: 12/07/04     Keywords: spam

Finally I took the step to get rid of comment spam without time consuming moderation, which I have been doing so far. My quest first started with a simple solution - moderation of all comments. Recently I started getting over 600 spams daily! Things started to get out of hand. A good option was using Captcha as [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bye-bye-comment-spam/

Date: 12/05/04     Keywords: no keywords

1 comment approved 69 comments deleted Its kind of getting painful deleting "texas-holdem", "debt-consolidation" emails by hand. What wordpress needs is a bulk moderation folder where such emails can be automatically dumped and if un-moderated deleted after say 30 days.

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Date: 12/04/04     Keywords: no keywords

1 comment approved 69 comments deleted Its kind of getting painful deleting "texas-holdem", "debt-consolidation" emails by hand. What wordpress needs is a bulk moderation folder where such emails can be automatically dumped and if un-moderated deleted after say 30 days. However word filtering is just the tip of the iceberg. We need image and/or audio recognition to weed out [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/state-of-comment-spam/

Date: 12/03/04     Keywords: software

Many of you have downloaded WarFTPD and other communication programs from www.jgaa.com. I had done seeral times before. Today when I was downloading warftpd, I noticed a small link on the main page which lead me to the story of the author of these brilliant software (Jarle) which he gives away for...

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Date: 12/03/04     Keywords: software, spam

Lycos Europe as you probably know has created a screen-saver which allows a controlling lycos software to target the idle time of the machines which installed the screen-savers to flood the network of known spammers. Some people are getting concerned that it amounts to ddos attack.

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Date: 12/03/04     Keywords: software

Many of you have downloaded WarFTPD and other communication programs from www.jgaa.com. I had done seeral times before. Today when I was downloading warftpd, I noticed a small link on the main page which lead me to the story of the author of these brilliant software (Jarle) which he gives away for free. Please read the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-sad-story-of-a-good-netizen-can-you-do-anything-to-help-him/

Date: 12/03/04     Keywords: software, spam

Lycos Europe as you probably know has created a screen-saver which allows a controlling lycos software to target the idle time of the machines which installed the screen-savers to flood the network of known spammers. Some people are getting concerned that it amounts to ddos attack. Frankly I don't care. Anything to get these spammers business down [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ddosing-the-spammers-who-cares/

Date: 12/03/04     Keywords: no keywords

Why am I not surprised?

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Date: 12/02/04     Keywords: java

I was quoted in ComputerWeekly article titled "C# goes head to head with Java" from my article on our .Net experience. A Java user's view of C#

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Date: 12/02/04     Keywords: no keywords

Check out the bumper sticker. I think the entry is factual. Warning: Political satire, don't go if you are allergic.

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Date: 12/02/04     Keywords: java

Addiction is the only name I can give to the love for this intellectual challenge targeted for Java developers .

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Date: 12/02/04     Keywords: software

Why am I not surprised? Paying for the full-time staff requires fund raising, and the executive director must handle the challenge of retaining the ASF's independence while raising funds from individuals and companies, Behlendorf said. Currently donations to the ASF are random, he added. Deja vu anyone? What the proponents of Open Source Software fail to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apache-going-corporate-and-end-the-volunteer-model/

Date: 12/02/04     Keywords: software, java

I was quoted in ComputerWeekly article titled "C# goes head to head with Java" from my article on our .Net experience. A Java user's view of C# Angsuman Chakraborty is chief software architect at California-based software development firm Taragana, which specialises in IT outsourcing and consulting services. Taragana has worked with Java since 1995, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/quoted-in-computerweekly-a-clarification/

Date: 12/02/04     Keywords: no keywords

Check out the bumper sticker. I think the entry is factual. Warning: Political satire, don't go if you are allergic.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bumper-sticker-of-note/

Date: 12/02/04     Keywords: java

Addiction is the only name I can give to the love for this intellectual challenge targeted for Java developers . You may remember from your school days about cRobots, a program which allows robots written in c language to compete with each other. Fast forward several years...for few years now there are Java versions of cRobots [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/an-addictive-challenge-for-jaa-programmers/

Date: 12/01/04     Keywords: java

Things have heated up recently in different Java forums with wide ranging topics.

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Date: 12/01/04     Keywords: java, web

Things have heated up recently in different Java forums with wide ranging topics. A case in point - JBoss, for example, is a company which people love to adore or hate. Frankly I haven't worked with JBoss, however I can tell you about Weblogic when it was Tengah. And it had major league problems, to say [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/an-appeal-java-developers-lets-make-peace/

Date: 11/30/04     Keywords: html

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Date: 11/30/04     Keywords: html

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