At reevoo, we rely heavily on open source software. As a part of this, we’re all very keen on contributing back to the community, both in terms of cold, hard source code, and in sharing our experiences developing software

My colleague luke-redpath has just pushed our new Reevoo Labs Lives! site live:

I’m looking forward to posting there about some of the issues we’re grappling with at reevoo: how to test well, how testing affects refactoring, and trying to innovate on the web whilst still remaining commercially viable. Check it out.

When I come back to interblah.net, I normally have a quick look at the index page to see if any new comments are awaiting my attention. And recently that’s revealed a few interesting comments (thanks!), and hundreds of spam comments.

I deliberately didn’t do anything clever to combat spam, but I got a bit sick of it today, so I’ve started sending comments to Defensio to stem the flow. The implementation was very simple (see github for details), and hopefully that’ll stem the flow of links to naughty filth on my site.

Except for the links that I add, of course.

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