Modding WPopenid to use BotBouncer: Using the BotBouncer API

In my previous post, I showed how a one-line modification would allow you to route OpenID logins through BotBouncer to help protect your WordPress blog from bot-spam. There was one problem with the one-liner method though, it’d route logins through BotBouncer every time a user tried to login to your WordPress blog with their OpenID- [...]

How to cancel your Monster UK (Job Seeker service) account

Recently, Monster had a security issue resulting in the theft of their users’ data. Considering in all the time I’ve had an account on Monster I’ve yet to receive any useful search results, and taking into account that hResume hypothetically allows for decentralised job searches (blowing up current job seeker website business models :-P ), [...]

Modding WPopenid to use BotBouncer

If you’re not familiar with them…. WPopenid is a plugin for WordPress to allow OpenID logins, and BotBouncer is a CAPTCHA service for OpenIDs. The Mod openid-registration.php, line 257 $this->start_login( $_POST['openid_url'], ‘http://botbouncer.com/captcha/queryuser?return_to=’ . urlencode(get_settings(‘home’) . ‘/’ . $redirect_to) . ‘&openid=’ . $_POST['openid_url'] );

SL Map API deux

SL Map API Following on from my previous post, I’ve now kinda got my SL Map API back to where it was. I’m still not doing all the image processing yet, and there’s two reasons for this: the whole process takes quite a long time to complete, as well as taking up a substantial amount [...]