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A post? They have those on blogs?

Darren VanBuren — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:09:33 +0000

I load the front page of my blog nearly every day. I just can’t seem to create a post that has enough value that it’s worth posting at all. However, now I will.

That aside, I have been looking at CloudFlare, and I’ve implemented it in some areas. WordPress is locked to a domain, so this blog isn’t behind CloudFlare. Most sections of theoks.net can be viewed behind CloudFlare by replacing theoks.net with theoks.tk.

What CloudFlare does for you is that it caches static resources like CSS, Javascript, and images, closer to you, resulting in faster load of images and styles. Especially on the image board, and the zoomable Minecraft map render this can be advantageous.

I have also added Google’s +1 button to post pages, as well as the home page, and moved the Tweet button with it to below the post content.

In related news I got into Google+, which is pretty exciting. You may ask me for an invite, but I cannot guarantee that you will be allowed to join.

Blog Optimizations

Darren VanBuren — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:40:24 +0000

So I took some time to check things up, and I looked up some stuff. I took a look at Mashable’s 11 Ways to Speed Up WordPress. I picked up W3 Total Cache and set it up. I set everything to store in memcached, and in two memcached instances, one on my server that runs my blog, and one that runs on a virtual machine on a server in my basement.

It seems to have sped some loading time up, but I don’t know. If you think it did, by all means, comment.

Thanks to those behind W3 Total Cache, and Cyrus Patten, author of the post on Mashable.

successful sync

Deathgleaner — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:34:03 +0000

well, I finally got the wordpress app on my blackberry storm to link to oksblog. It was either an issue with the BB software or the app. I got the brand New blackberry software few months ago nd I’m publishing … Continue reading →

Thank you Akismet, redoux.

Deathgleaner — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:09:06 +0000

Hey everyone, this is Deathgleaner speaking. Kudos to the people behind AKISMET for creating the world’s best spam-fighting tool. I use it on my blog and it does a great job of catching spam comments from advertisers and low-lifes, and it still lets good comments through. My blog would probably be a hate box if not for Akismet.

Akismet has netted about 150 spam comments. It’s scary that spam comments out-rival normal ones.

Thanks again,
Deathgleaner

Akismet, thank you.

Darren VanBuren — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:14:02 +0000

Akismet has been installed here on OKS Blog forever. As of today, October 26th, Akismet has blocked 1,000 spam comments from appearing here.

Thank you Akismet.

I should write more

Deathgleaner — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:01:41 +0000

Now that school’s back and a bunch of crap is happening around here, please expect more updates from Darren and I.

Yea, we’ve been lazy these weeks but hope to be back!

Spam, spam, spam

Darren VanBuren — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:48:42 +0000

Spam is always a problem. It’s a problem for everyone. Blocking it is also a problem. You can lots of the time have false positives. Which gets annoying. Also when your anti-spam doesn’t block enough. Or when it gets in your way. Maybe it doesn’t even work with your specific software.

I have spam problems too. SpamAssassin is the most well known open source mail-based anti-spam solution. The developers behind SpamAssassin need your help. They need you to submit “ham” and “spam” mail in order to teach SpamAssassin to recognize new spammer techniques.

Check the project out at this wiki page.

Blog statistics for August

Deathgleaner — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:35:09 +0000

As you can see, our blog views have really declined. NO ONE who is a registered user of OKS Blog has viewed this blog in the past four days! Right now, the total number of views is stagnant at around 1,377 and we wish someone would come and view this blog. We had 40+ views on August 10th, followed by a few more peaks & valleys, but the line is flat. Help OKS Blog raise that line! Link to us on your blog, on Twitter (follow @oksblog), Facebook, Myspace, whatever. Tell your friends, colleagues, co-workers about this great blog!

Things around here might get a lot faster

Darren VanBuren — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:54:32 +0000

I was able to compile the memcache PECL extension for my copy of PHP on my Mac. Now I just need a separate machine for memcached. When I get such a thing, OKS Blog would be much better, as queries from the DB would be cached through memcached, and memory is *much* faster than hard drive.

Click on a few ads (seen near the top of the page) to support my crazy venture of a separate memcached machine, and we’ll see how speed improves when we get a memcached machine up.

The memcached machine will be running a stripped Fedora 11 install (as in no GUI), with a 64-bit kernel (because it’s a whole new machine I’m gonna put together). I know that memcached is used in the Fedora Infrastructure with MediaWiki. Possibly, I might have the wordpress-mu install use memcached as well.

For those of you who don’t know what memcached is, memcached is “a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.” (from the memcached home page) memcached came from LiveJournal, a project of Danga Interactive. We’ll see if when we get a memcached instance (if we get a memcached instance) things speed up.

Open Source Solutions for WordPress spam comments

Darren VanBuren — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:17:16 +0000

You probably don’t know, but I’m working with some other Fedora contributors on a Fedora install of WordPress MU. The thing is, for a spam solution, all of it has to be open source, so Akismet or reCAPTCHA won’t work. So I ask you, Fedora users and contributors. Firstly, is spam an issue on your blogs? If so, what do you use for anti-spam on your self-hosted WordPress blog? Leave a nice little comment.

All alone?

Darren VanBuren — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:32:27 +0000

Am I the only active author on here? Is it the end of OKS Blog as we know it?

It’s the 85th post

Darren VanBuren — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:32:31 +0000

Here at OKS Blog, we’ve come a long way. We’ve faced downtime, but we prevail. I want you all to know how great you are and how important you are to me.

I’m very fortunate to have the number of visitors I have, and I’m fortunate to have the enthusiastic authors here as my friends.

It’s been a long time coming, and one more comment will be the 100th comment.

I am happy to continue administering OKS Blog, and we will continue to flourish for years to come!

Thanks,

Darren VanBuren

Administrator of Onekopakaspace

Posting here from ScribeFire

Deathgleaner — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:40:32 +0000

In case you don’t know what ScribeFire is, it’s an addon for Firefox that lets a user write posts from the bottom of Firefox without ever leaving the web page you’re on. You can get it at http://tinyurl.com/yrnml6.

ScribeFire allows you to post to blogs such as WordPress and Blagger. This blog, in fact, is supported by WordPress. What I would like to know is if it is possible to post to this blog. The site editor can reply to this post by including a list of steps to set up ScribeFire to post to here.

UPDATE (6/15/2009 @ 7:20): The site editor has replied

OKS Blog is powered by WordPress 2.9-rare (as I write this comment).

Setting up ScribeFire to post to OKS Blog is easy.

Just use http://oks.verymad.net/~onekopaka/blog/ as the URL and your username and password to login to the Admin interface here.

-Darren VanBuren

UPDATE (6/15/2009 @ 15:46) by Darren VanBuren:

My last name doesn’t have a space…

UPDATE (6/15/2009 @ 16:25)

Hmmm… I’m trying it out and it doesn’t seem to be working. When I try to load a post, it refuses to load. I just have to try publishing a new post.

16:30 – ScribeFire can now post (I sent a test post), but can’t edit. Looks like Mr. VanBuren will have to work this out.

WordTwit had to be reconfigured..

Darren VanBuren — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:01:25 +0000

If you were wondering why posts weren’t showing up at @oksblog, after I upgraded WordTwit, I had to reconfigure. This problem is now fixed, and this post is testing WordTwit.

I’m back as well!

Deathgleaner — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:37:34 +0000

Wow, after so long waiting for Darren’s blog to be put back up, it’s finally up!

During the time that this blog was down, I actually created a new blog on WordPress, which this blog is based off of. It’s at deathgleaner.wordpress.com

But now that this blog is back, I don’t know what to do. Should I keep my blog on WordPress? Or should I post here? My previous preference before this blog went down was to post on this blog, but for now, you can find me active (more or less) on both my WordPress and this blog.

Update (3/6/09 17:15PST): I have made up my mind. School-related stuff will go here and everything else on my other blog at WordPress. Of course, I’m flexible, so keep updated!

Update (9/6/09 20:15PST): Maybe not just school stuff will go on this blog. I will decide at my own will which blog I’ll post to.

We’re back!

Darren VanBuren — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:27:57 +0000

Yes, after too much downtime, OKS Blog is BACK!!

We have a twitter account!

Darren VanBuren — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:30:46 +0000

Onekopakaspace Blog now has its own twitter account for it to tweet to. Isn’t that cool? It’s @oksblog for you to follow.

OKS Blog is already on WordPress 2.8

Darren VanBuren — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:37:27 +0000

Here at OKS Blog, we take pride in running WordPress right from the SVN tree. This allows for easy upgrades and we get to beta test WordPress thoroughly. We also get new features as soon as they come in. So … Continue reading →

CSS Transforms in Firefox 3.1 and first C4T3G0R1Z3D post

Darren VanBuren — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:10:09 +0000

There’s a lot of new things in Firefox 3.1, which is set to be released sometime in the first quarter of 2009. There’s plenty of new features. So, here is one of the new features. Take a look at this box:

This is a box. A real box. The text in this box is important. But you don’t need to read it. In fact, please don’t read it. I mean, the only purpose of this text is to form the box.

Since it’s just a CSS property, we can apply it to any HTML element

Check out this image:

It is rotated 25 degrees counter clockwise.

In other news, there are now categories on OKS Blog and this is the first post to use them.

That’s my iPod showing the page, with WP touch, a plugin to make an iPod friendly blog, enabled.