bBlog comment administration

I did it. As noted below I needed a way to mass delete comments in bBlog. After searching the bBlog forums, I could not find anything, thus I decided to see how difficult it would be.

The answer is: not very. A little editing and now I can mass delete or mass approve comments. Sharing [...]

Blogging and comment spam

Switching from BLOG:CMS to bBlog has an interesting effect. Suddenly my site is deluged with comment spam. Thankfully I mark all comments containing hyperlinks as needing approval before posting. With BLOG:CMS I received not one spam comment in the year I used it. Today I checked the comment moderation section. 235 comments awaiting approval, all [...]

Enough with the VBScript!

I’ve had enough. “Enough!” I say, “Enough!” Of what? Of programming in vbscript. While a very simple language to learn, and easy(ier) for non-programmers to understand, the work arounds needed to accomplish relatively simple tasks is annoying. Or perhaps I should say, it is not as capable as say JavaScript.

It reminds me of what [...]