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blog http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/taxonomy/term/1 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en Posting on XML.com http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/91 <p>I’ve started blogging on <a href="http://www.xml.com/" title="XML.com">XML.com</a>. There’ll be rather less XML on this blog as a consequence, but I do plan to keep it going for less XML-related posts. My first post is about <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/bad_xml.html" title="XML.com: Bad XML">Bad XML</a>; read and enjoy. FWIW, if you didn’t already know, I’m also now on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/JeniT" title="twitter: JeniT">twitter</a>.</p>  http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/91#comments blog Sat, 17 May 2008 22:27:57 +0100 Jeni 91 at http://www.jenitennison.com/blog reCAPTCHA on comments http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/35 <p>I’ve installed <a href="http://drupal.org/project/recaptcha" title="reCAPTCHA Drupal Module">reCAPTCHA Drupal module</a> as a way of combating the large amount of comment spam that I get on this blog, and to support the <a href="http://recaptcha.net/" title="reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books">reCAPTCHA</a> project. What a fantastic idea! I see that there’s already a term for using human expertise in a fun or transparent way to solve problems that can’t be solved by computers: <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/bionic_software_1.html" title="Tim O'Reilly on Bionic Software">bionic software</a>.</p> <p>ReCAPTCHAs are fun and add to human knowledge, but if you want to avoid them (they do take a little time to load) then <a href="http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/user/register" title="Create a new account">create yourself a login</a>. On the other hand, if you have some spare cycles, then you can <a href="http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html">do reCAPTCHAs</a> on the reCAPTCHA site without creating lots of comments here.</p>  http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/35#comments drupal blog Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:44:31 +0100 Jeni 35 at http://www.jenitennison.com/blog Comment spam and feed format http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/16 <p>I guess it’s an indication of something (like just being indexed by Google) when you first get comment spam on your blog. Anyway, I really don’t want to insist that commentators create accounts here, so after several annoying days of repeatedly deleting spam comments, I installed the <a href="http://www.drupal.org" title="Drupal">Drupal</a> <a href="http://drupal.org/project/spam" title="Spam module">Spam module</a> and every spam comment since has been captured.</p>  <p>Of course it hasn’t been tested for false positives yet, so send those comments flying in and see if you can trip the Bayesian filters.</p> <p>You might notice that I’ve also reconfigured the feed so that you get the full post rather than just the teaser if you’re reading via an aggregator. I hope that’s more convenient.</p> http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/16#comments drupal blog Mon, 14 May 2007 21:32:16 +0100 Jeni 16 at http://www.jenitennison.com/blog My new blog http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/1 <p>So I finally have just enough spare capacity to start blogging. And if <a href="http://blog.jclark.com/" title="James Clark's Random Thoughts">James Clark</a> and <a href="http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.com/" title="David Carlisle's Blog">David Carlisle</a> can join the party late, why not me. (Yes, M. David Peterson, your <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/04/hello_david_carlisle.html" title="Post by M. David Peterson welcoming David Carlisle's blog">eveel plan</a> is coming to fruition.)</p> <p>So what can you expect? Well, naturally there’ll be musings about XML, XSLT, schema languages and so on, including tips and tricks as I think of them. I’ll probably also have a few rants about overlapping markup, particularly <a href="http://www.lmnlwiki.org/" title="LMNL Wiki">LMNL</a> and <a href="http://www.lmnlwiki.org/index.php/Creole" title="Creole: schema language for overlapping markup">Creole</a>. And anything else that sparks my interest.</p>  <h3>Blogging Software</h3> <p>For those who are interested, I’m using <a href="http://www.drupal.org/" title="Main Drupal site">Drupal</a> for content management after a fairly successful trial run with a private blog about two years ago. Drupal seems to have moved on fair bit in that time, and even if set-up wasn’t exactly “a breeze”, it was way easier than last time, even doing it on a machine I don’t own.</p> <p>This is a fairly minimal installation at the moment. The only thing I’ve added is the ability to use <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax" title="Markdown syntax documentation">Markdown syntax</a> when writing content (including comments). My experience with the <a href="http://www.lmnlwiki.org/" title="LMNL Wiki">LMNL Wiki</a> is that, even for a markup geek like me, it’s a lot easier to generate content if you don’t have to write tags, but conversely I can’t stomach the lack of control of WYSIWYG. I couldn’t find a Drupal input format for Wiki-style input (at least, I found the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/pearwiki_filter" title="PEAR Wiki Filter Drupal module">PEAR Text_Wiki</a> module but couldn’t get it to create <code><pre></code> elements successfully, and since I intend to write code samples on this blog, that made it pretty useless), and Markdown seems a pretty usable alternative.</p> <p>I’ll probably be adding more modules as time goes on and the need arises. If there’s anything you, as readers, want added then let me know, particularly if you can point me at the relevant Drupal module.</p> http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/1#comments drupal blog Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:06:02 +0100 Jeni 1 at http://www.jenitennison.com/blog