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@bronsonquick Akismet on it's own can't block it all, albeit it blocks most.

@bronsonquick Combo of Akismet and "sporting methods" like mine, tend to blitz all spam entirely in my experience.

@bronsonquick At some point, I'll probably make a plugin for it which adds more words and perhaps a CAPTCHA. For REALLY bad spam problems.

@bronsonquick "vagin" will cover any comments with "vagina" in them too.

@bronsonquick Lol. That's not a typo 😉 I've seen "vagin" used in comments before, presumably to avoid being picked up by anti-spam tools.

I've released a new spam solution for WordPress … http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spam-destroyer/. Simple, but highly effective in my experience.

If anyone is interested in trying out a new anti-spam tool for WordPress, then lemme know and I'll DM you a link 🙂

@iwebtweets Thanks fort he writeup!

@gormer I haven't looked. I just being nosey about what you are building 🙂

@gormer Are you using that plugin anywhere already?

Hmmm, so I moved to a CDN, and now I have no browser caching. Go figure …. https://ryan.hellyer.kiwi/

@Ipstenu Are you from San Diego originally?

@TCBarrett 30 seconds is mighty damn quick. I was impressed with the 3 mins I got from @linode

@scottbasgaard Bummer.

@five15design Of more pressing concern is that you are tweeting and driving!

@adii If you are stopping in Oslo and have time to meet up, lemme know.

@IanTLS Excellent suggestion!

Lesson in life … don't run a highly intensive cron job that takes 30 mins to process, once per minute; tends to cause server meltdown!

@jstr Bang on 🙂 …. @linode are proving quite awesome so far.

@TCBarrett Much less exciting. Complete contents of https://ryan.hellyer.kiwi.

Filed a ticket with VPS host @linode. Any guesses as to the response time? Options are (a) 3 hours, (b) 30 mins, (c) 3 mins, (d) 30 seconds.

I apparently managed to serve 17 GB of data off a 512 MB RAM VPS within the past hour and a bit. Not too shabby I think 🙂

Hmm, so it seems that sync'ing your entire server to Amazon S3 all in one hit is a very very bad idea. All system RAM was used for syncing!

Take #2 … a more detailed description of my pull-CDN problem … http://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-mapping-and-pull-cdns

@davecoveney Thanks, I'll re tweet it in a second once I track down the correct URL.

Domain mapping, pull CDN … how do I stop the pull CDN from caching a redirected file? eg: http://d3e29dgja1i1wj.cloudfront.net/ryanhellyer/files/2012/07/mike-ryan-1-626×680.jpg

I'm working on an importer, processing 58,000 members for inclusion into a WordPress install.

@billrobbins I wish that plugin was available a few years ago. I ended up manually copying a bunch over and left some to die.

@rmccue I need to learn more about WP_Error. I have a bad habit of littering my code with custom error messages minus the API.

@rmccue Where is this article being published?

@angiemeeker Quite. I should have made the move a very long time ago.

@Namecheap haha, that's awesome!

RT @Namecheap: @ryanhellyer And by the way, http://ow.ly/crA37 – and we matched $10k on top of that! 😉

@loyals In case it wasn't obvious, my last few tweets were sarcasm. GoDaddy sucks balls. @namecheap rules.

@namecheap was so easy, it makes me feel just a little bit naughty.

@Namecheap Next you will be trying to say you don't kill baby elephants for fun.

@andrea_r Three screens? What the hell? I paid US$10 for that domain! I expect my money's worth in screens!

Something is fishy. @namecheap aren't even trying to trick me into accidentally clicking on stuff to buy. Something is not right.

Where are all the advertisements featuring scantily clad women? And why are they not forcing me to scread through tons of irrelevant crap?

I've been a GoDaddy user for a while now and am trying out NameCheap this evening. Something is wrong though …

@SomertonDentist That code won't be viable for production use for at least a few months though sorry 🙁

@SomertonDentist I'm working on a fork of the core code-base which will hopefully fix the problem you are experiencing though.

@SomertonDentist I'm not involved with that project anymore sorry.

RT @XanaduHowTo: Happy birthday @ryanhellyer! Thx for changing out of the wordpress tshirt for the occasion! http://instagr.am/p/NboOK6P6b7/

@DeFries Are there any advanced-cache.php or object-cache.php drop-in files being used at all?

@BillErickson Pfft, 1.1 GB is nothing 😉 It's when it hits 10 GB it becomes annoying!

@DeFries Sounds awesome. I'm cynical that some sort of object cache wouldn't be helpful but would love to be proven wrong 🙂

@DeFries @davidlaing Well I'm fascinated and would like to learn more.

@DeFries Are you sure it wouldn't run faster with a caching plugin? Reducing DB queries would presumably help somewhat.

@DeFries I'm guessing it uses whole-page static server side caching?

@DeFries I'd love to try making a site run purely off of Amazon Cloudfront. It'd run ninja fast then, albeit would be totally static.

@DeFries How do you do that?

@DeFries I've grown a strong dislike of bloated plugins. Batcache and APC Object Cache have become two of my new favourites.

@DeFries Had you ever seen that WP stack thing before? I'm surprised I haven't noticed it until now.

An extremely useful kit of plugins for WordPress powered sites, courtesy of @markjaquith … https://github.com/markjaquith/WP-Stack

@gcaat Took me 45 hours to get here.

@gcaat Well in that case, I really should come visit, but the 30+ hour flight time is off-putting.

@gcaat Where are you?

@Ipstenu My blog's been stuck with single file uploads for almost a year now. Was driving me stark raving mad since I upload lots of files.

Demo'ing an image overlay plugin by displaying an image overlay created by a totally different plugin … head smack

Thanks to @joncave and @jghazally for modelling on my blog 🙂 … https://geek.hellyer.kiwi/2012/07/22/simple-colorbox-slideshows/

Simple Colorbox for WordPress now features slideshows and it won't leave ugly scrollbars … https://geek.hellyer.kiwi/2012/07/22/simple-colorbox-slideshows/

RT @simonwheatley: As @RyanHellyer pointed out to me, key param is optional! RT @wpengine: The Daily WordPress Reference: get_post_meta( …

@ronalfy Simple CMS

I feel bad for gasbagging instead of going to WC Edinburgh presentations now. A plugin of mine was demo'd during it and I didn't know!

@wptavern Thanks 🙂 Gravity Forms is what ended up being used.

@nakrissimo The talk we met each other at is what prompted me to upgrade. My site was an embarrassing demonstration of site performance.

@Otto42 @trepmal I rely on them because I use Google to hunt out bits of core code I need to access.

As of today, my website is slightly less disarray than it was. Lots of bugs and issues to fix, but the big one (server change) is done 🙂

Jeepers. Decided to guinea pig alpha theme code on my own site. Didn't go so well, lol. Had to urgently hack in (badly) archive pages.

Oh noes! Half my links are broken 🙁 https://ryan.hellyer.kiwi/2007/ Any ideas on what might cause that?

@joncave There seems to be a gremlin in your server … http://joncave.co.uk/ (nothing but NGINX message)

New blog post: Meeting new WP peeps at WordCamp Edinburgh … https://ryan.hellyer.kiwi/2012/07/22/greeks-invade-edinburgh/

@chris_olbekson Crisis averted 🙂 @markoheijnen 's advice from earlier fixed that problem too … http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nginx-compatibility/

@chris_olbekson Oh darn! Tags don't seem to be working … https://ryan.hellyer.kiwi/tag/anna/

Yay, new server is operational https://ryan.hellyer.kiwi/ (may not have propagated to 50.116.54.208 yet)

@Otto42 @aaronjorbin Back in my science days I knew multiple scientists who insisted on using Comic Sans … because it was cool.

W00p w00p! @chris_olbekson fixed my image urls issue 🙂 Next task … figure out how to point https://ryan.hellyer.kiwi at ninja fast server.

@chris_olbekson I changed back to the original server_name and seems to be working fine. Is there any particular reason you removed the _?

@chris_olbekson Can I do it with a wildcard for the domain? I'd rather be able to add domains willy nilly without editing the config file.

@chris_olbekson That worked 🙂 🙂 🙂 http://hellyer.net.nz/

@chris_olbekson Thank you 🙂

@chris_olbekson I am not very knowledgeable about this stuff, so help is very appreciated 🙂

@chris_olbekson Thank you 🙂 I appreciate it!

@dinicmilan Transients default to using the DB when object caching is unavailable. That can slow things down if you need to cache too often.

@dinicmilan @Otto42 That is not true. Sometimes non-object caching is too slow. Don't wanna fry your DB in the process of caching.

@ryancduff I was watching that with @ronalfy on TV earlier and laughed at it. Didn't realise the WP logo until @xanaduhowto pointed it out.

@chris_olbekson My nginx.conf file … http://pastebin.com/NkUYRksE

@chris_olbekson From sites-available … http://pastebin.com/03NS1jsN

@chris_olbekson Thanks! Will hunt it out and tweet back in a few minutes. Gotta find SSH details first.

@markoheijnen Thanks 🙂

I'm having trouble debugging image uploads on my fresh WordPress install. Any help appreciated 🙂 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-not-loading-with-domain-mapping

@bradleypotter I had a plan a while back to build a tool for testing plugins and themes live. Never got around to building it though.

Apparently WordPress and dildo's are more closely related than first thought … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhTr-_FWtT0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Saw an advertisement on Norwegian TV featuring a WordPress logo just now … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhTr-_FWtT0&feature=youtube_gdata_player