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Posted by: Stuart

I enjoy working with HTML, XHTML, CSS and designers as a web developer. At home I enjoy listening to music, playing music, reading and food.

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Posted on: 30 August 2004

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Honeymoon

OK lads and lasses. The honeymoon period for Guest Block is over. This is Beta testing. I need you to try and break it. Try flooding it, chuck some spam words at it, swear at it like a trooper. Go on. You know you want to.

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beth
its fun but i don't consider it flawless. seeing as the designer only lives down the road in birmingham he's heard some of the words i'v thrown at it & they've been allowed & believe me i'd consider them swearing/offensive.
30 August 2004, 20:31
Stuart
It’s not Matthew’s fault. I have to add the words to it’s dictionary and you know more of them than me. You have to consider that this could be used by someone in Japan and I wouldn’t have a clue what the Japanese swear words are and neither would Matthew so the dictionary has to start off blank and get added to by the user. Keep trying. That’s what it’s here for. Go for broke.
30 August 2004, 20:43
Matthew
Like an innocent child, Guestblock knows only the words you teach it.

When Stuart has built up an extensive words list I’ll look to include it in the default install, assuming that’s ok with Stuart.
30 August 2004, 21:23
beth
are we to include offensive phrases? as i know 100’ of those but few singular words.
31 August 2004, 20:20
Stuart
I’m not sure what can be done about phrases as they are usually made up of perfectly good words. You have to remember that what we are doing here is abnormal. Usually visitors will just pop in to place a block and leave a message. Swearing will probably only occur when some jerk turns up with nothing better to do. I can delete his/her block and if I don’t know them I can ban their IP address.
31 August 2004, 20:46
Lily
wow
does everybody have guestblocks now?
and what’s textpattern?

i feel so out of it

sigh
6 September 2004, 01:43
Stuart
No I think there’s only about 6 of us doing Beta testing at the moment. Textpattern is what I replaced WP with. I find it more useful for my site rather than just my Blog. I’m writing up on it. I’m getting timed out on your Blog???
6 September 2004, 02:44
Lily
oh i get it!
textpattern is for your whole site?

i don’t know why you’re getting timed out. i didn’t do anything…:-(
what should i do?
6 September 2004, 16:29
Stuart
Yep. TXP is rather cool. It’s kind of a blogging tool but could also be viewed as a CMS which means that, apart from the Forum (which you still haven’t joined) and Guest Block I should be able to drag everything else into it. All my pages with menus on them are already in there along with a couple of the full-width pages. Now all you need to do is learn to use Textile. There’s a help button there. And you can preview live before you post your comment. And no, it’s not a plug-in.

Don’t worry about the timed-out thing. If it doesn’t clear in a couple of days I’ll get my ISP to check it out. You seem to have changed the address from what I have in my menu. Not that using the new one seems to make any difference at the moment. Is lilyanddragon.com registered?
6 September 2004, 20:25

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