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Archive for January, 2005

jythonservlet with tweaks

Fixed a bug in my tweaked jython servlet.
From the comments:

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* This is a copy of the PyServlet that comes with jython, with the
* following enhancements (written by Phil Dawes - pdawes@users.sf.net):
*
* - It will try appending .py to the URL - e.g. /foo/bah resolves to
* the jythonservlet at /foo/bah.py
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wordpress files deleted again

Doh! Logged in to find that a load of files in my wordpress installation had been deleted. Luckily I’ve re-installed wordpress before so it was a simple process.
Not exactly sure how the files were deleted this time - last time I did the install I made sure that they were all only user-writable. hmmm…

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For me, tagging posts with categories is too cumbersome in wordpress (and probably in other blogging platforms). Ideally adding category tags would be an adhoc thing you type after you’ve written your post, rather than something you have to ’setup’.

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It seems to me that the thing holding back widespread RDF adoption isn’t RDF itself, but rather RDF/XML.
Personally I think RDF/XML fails as a human oriented syntax - it’s just too complicated for the layman to bother with.
What’s more, promoting RDF/XML as the default serialisation of RDF positions RDF as a direct competitor […]

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Hit some bad performance hotspots at work yesterday with the new suffix stuff.
The main problem occurs when you do text searches with multiple words, some of which are very popular. The query optimiser frequently makes a bad decision, which boils down to not being able to compute the permutations of the popular word, […]

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Go Spaminator!

Installed Spaminator a few days ago to combat the rise in spam comments on this blog. So far it’s correctly identified 49 items of spam with no false positives!

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