About me
Mike van Riel is a Senior Software Developer at Unet BV, an ISP for the corporate segment based in the Netherlands.
With a passion for industry standards and Quality Assurance he loves nothing more than to discuss methods to improve code and ways to 'Do-It-Better'™ in general.
Aside from the regular talk about PHP and web-based technologies he also occasionally tends to write about his personal life, opinions and hobbies.
Spam has left the building … finally
I have done it, on the 29th of November I finally activated Akismet and begun cleaning up spam which was still remaining on my blog.
Today, I took the time and the liberty to remove the last spam comments AND write a new (perhaps for some quite uninteresting) blog post. When I started my blog I [...]
Spam part II
For some reason I seem to have become popular with the spam bots. Not quite the crowd I was hoping for
It is not possible for me to keep deleting all spam until I have time to implement anti-spam measures. It is on my to-do list but other (more pressing) matters have priority. Should [...]
The first spam battle, I lost..
I have had a spam run in the last couple of days and was forced to delete a couple of hundred spam messages.
Despite the fact that I was reviewing every message if it was a valid comment or not (I unfortunately do not get many at the moment) it seems that I have overlooked about [...]