Finally, I found an excuse to upgrade my blog software .. the annoying spammers. As I mentioned in my last blog entry, I had to enable comment filtering to stop the spammers but then I have to lose time to reject their comments. That is not good:(

A feature I love, and I am using it anywhere I need/can, is CAPTCHA ;) and my favorite package is: Simple captcha. A very nice Java library (a little bit tricky to configure under Linux, but is OK).

It took me 30 minutes to add captcha to Pebble and to modify a bit the jsp code that drives the UI.  Simon, if you read this, please think about adding beanshell support to Pebble. I can survive with the pebble tags in JSP even though I cried for Velocity, but having script Actions instead of the simple Java Actions that Pebble is using, will be a very nice addition. Hmmm... what about a mini Pebble in JPublish??? Let me think about ;)

So .. dear spammers, welcome to:



If everything is working as planned, I will disable the comment filtering and then all my readers (both of them;) will be able to comment as usual ... let's see.

Cheers,

A good and fair review about IDEA on The Register, here is the link
The question there is: "can it survive the Eclipse onslaught?"

This is not a matter of survival, is a matter of who's offering clever solutions to the  developers and how significant the segment represented by those developers is for the IT industry. I do believe 100% in IntelliJ, not just because of the almost perfect Java IDE they provide (and I am referring here to IDEA only) but look at the other products they offer. But not only that, is also because the IntelliJ team is on the wave today ... not tomorrow!

Congratulations IntelliJ!