And now for the "super secret special announcement":

w00t!  I am now listed as a speaker on the ApacheCon Speakers Page!  Now I just need to figure out what my login details are so I can upload a pic.

You can grab a torrent of the video capturing Matt's little speech at the 100,000 party over on my torrent site.

I thought I would take a moment and update all you fine folks some on what has been happening in the Kingdom on Applegrove.  It has been an exciting couple of weeks.

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Recently I have been looking for a topic to write on that did not include WordPress hacks, templates or plug ins... it is harder than you would expect.  So I was overjoyed when I read Tom's post calling for articles to be written that reference …

There is now a Spanish Localization of Spam Nuker, you can find it here: soteke's weblog: Spam Nuker.  The download link is near the end of the article.  Thanks soteke for the great work!

Wookies!

Back in September of 2004 I released a plugin that allowed you to delete large amounts of spam with one click.

Some backstory

Basically one afternoon I was hit with a wave of spam that resulted in 1500+ comments awaiting moderation that were all spam.  That was not a fun prospect, deleting all of those comments via the admin UI.  So I took a trip to the terminal and issued one command, which wiped them all out.

So taking that experience I created a plugin that allowed you to delete comments by author, IP, email or URI.  Now fast forward to WordPress 1.5.  1.5 has some wonderful toosl to help you combat spam built in, a blacklist feature, moderation by keywords and so on.  At first I was stoked at how well these tools were working, I didn't see any real waves of spam hitting my site, I was assuming that 1.5 was sending all that evil to /dev/null/ like a good little monkey.

I however, was very wrong.

In the history of coolest things.