Updated the download manager to query a local version of the Maven repository. This avoids periodic polling of the web server to read metadata, which was causing a lot of unnecessary traffic.
Comment moderation has now been enabled (both manual and through Akismet).
Hopefully this will put a stop to the comment spam. Tip: Post your comments as a logged-in user. This lets them show up right away (although they will still be processed by Akismet after a few minutes).
Update: It looks like I failed to set some database permissions properly, and adding new comments was failing. I thought it seemed a little too quiet around here...
The latest version of the site is now up and running.
The only major change in this version is the new Download page ( update: removed in favor of BinTray ). Download pages are always a pain to write, as the content on them changes fairly often. This version dynamically queries sources on the fly (and caches them) so it shouldn't require any manual updates.
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Just a quick update... Even though I haven't posted anything to the site recently, development has been proceeding along.
Unfortunately, it looks as though the next update to the site is going to be delayed just a little bit longer due to the need for some comment spam handling. I made the mistake of assuming that this site was small enough to allow open posting. Currently, I'm looking at several options:
- Forcing logins to post
- Comment filtering
- Moderation
- Reputation
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Unit testing is something that I agree with in principle, but seem to have a problem with in practice...
Another site update. There are several minor changes, and one big one: comment posting. It's pretty basic for now; as the site evolves new capabilities will be added.
You've seen them. Maybe you like them, maybe not, but Tag clouds are here to stay (at least until someone invents something better). This article details how the tag cloud for this web site was created.
It's been a little while since the site launch, but I've been busy with some updates. Most of them aren't user-visible just yet, but are necessary for the upcoming registration and comment system.
The one notable exception is the new tag cloud, which will be the subject of an upcoming article.
One little-known feature of the Java Servlet Spec allows for encoding session identifiers in URLs. In theory, this allows browsers without support for cookies to maintain session state with your website. In practice, however, there are several problems with this approach...