Month: May 2009

Chinese comment spammers win

Unfortunately, you won’t be able to post a comment until I summon the energy to move my blog to something that has adequate anti-spam controls. Feel free to email me your thoughts if I post anything comment-worthy in the meantime. 150 spam comments in a day is just a bit much.

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Tools for simulating slow and low bandwidth connections

I needed to do some page-weight testing on a new site, and found these handy plugins at http://www.uselessapplications.com IEThrottle is the Internet Explorer version, and Firefox Throttle is, unsurprisngly, the Firefox version. In Internet Explorer, for me at least, the plugin was hidden in the IE 7 tab bar, next to tools: In Firefox, you’ll […]

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