LDN - Luminis Developer Network

I've cranked up the CAPTCHA for new user registration. For those of you with accounts already - this won't affect you, but if you're creating a new account, the CAPTCHA is more difficult to read. Apparently the level it was set at was still allowing spam bots in.

If this doesn't hold them at bay - I'll install something a bit more intense. I'm trying to not have to install a CAPTCHA for every new post and comment, thats just irritating.

-Jon

just a test post.

Right, so YEARS ago I posted this http://www.lumdev.net/node/790 about how to create role based icons across the top of the portal. This code goes into channel.xsl and then you do some XSL tests to display what you want.

I have the need to actually detect this in nested-tables.xsl now. So - for example if you're a parent - I'd like to display a completely different layout, different css files, different images etc.

I apologize for the frustration and mess this has become. For some reason I'm still unaware of, the spam filter has gone haywire and is marking just about everything as spam.

I've played around with the rules and it seems to have gotten worse, so I've disabled it.

I left captcha on - so I guess we'll see how bad it gets.

-Jon

So those of you who are here in Central Pennsylvania may be part of PA BUG, the regional Banner User's group. We're right now, as I type, hosting a Tech Day at La Salle's new conference center.

We're doing some heavy content channel work with TCC, and its a complete unreasonable situation that I have to wait for the content to update. It takes 10-20 minutes before the content change is reflected in the channel.

Any idea the configman setting to change? At this point I don't care about the performance hit.

-Jon

Just to let everyone know, that I did some HEAVY user cleanup.

If there were accounts that had never logged in - I removed them.
If there were accounts that had not logged in once over the last year and a half, I removed them.

This also successfully removed a ton of spam-bot users that had gotten in at various times when captcha wasn't working, or through other means.

This probably won't affect you at all, but I just wanted to put it out there, in the event you search your inbox and realize 3 years ago you actually did register here and amazingly enough you can't log in.

Every year at Summit, I meet people, listen to presentations, think up cool projects, scheme with other developers, and generally get jacked up to come back and work on my portal.

So I'm here in San Francisco at Summit 2010.

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I'll skip all the resolution stuff this time and just thank you all one more time for making this site as successful as it is. Let's see where the new year takes us!

--Jon