[Phoenix-pm] phoenix.pm.org update/THE PASSWORD IS...

[Scott Walters]

First thoughts on pair programming:

* Overhead such as inststalling modules and waiting for mad swapping to
  subside wastes twice as much human time
* Impossible to stay on _task_

Try APress again, Brock. Even though their form crashed lsat time.  If it
still crashes, catch me online and I'll dig up an email addresses for you.

Oh, and here's that link I promised you -- the pocket data projector.
http://www.chait.net/index.php?p=572&page=1&stuff_to_buy

-scott

On  0, Brock <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
> 
> Well I think the password method is good for the Phoenix.PM wiki. But
> just in the way of discussion -- I was having daily spam, done by humans
> I believe, on my own site before implementing this. But the questions I
> chose are either technical or perhaps american-centric (like the "This
> old man..." fill-in-the-blank). While the spammers may read/write
> english, that is only one part of being able to answer the questions.
> The questions themselves can be domain-specific.
> 
> Also, on an on-topic note, this QuestionAsker extension is written in
> Perl for Oddmuse. The question database is a hash of static strings
> mapped to subrefs. So the answers can be complicated. For example:
> 
>   "How many lives does a cat have?" => sub { shift =~ /9|nine/i },
> 
>   "Tell me any number between 1 and 10 (inclusive)" => sub {
>     $a = shift;
>     ($a > 0 && $a < 11) # maybe should convert from english->int ?
>   },
> 
> which is all sorts of fun. Perhaps more fun would be
> automatically-generated questions too :)
> 
> --Brock
> 
> On 2006.01.13.20.19, Scott Walters wrote:
> | Hi Brock,
> | 
> | Not entirely a bad idea, a text-based captcha, but in this case, it's
> | humans who are manually spamming these things -- apparently often low
> | cost but English reading and writing foreign labor -- so I don't want
> | any humans to have access except the group and people who email me.
> | The Wiki is updated extremely infrequently or never by people
> | outside this group and by very few people within this group.
> | But all of this is of course still up for debate. This is just my
> | reasoning so far.
> | 
> | -scott
> | 
> | On  0, Brock <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
> | > On 2006.01.13.11.59, Scott Walters wrote:
> | > | But that's not all. Saving pages is now password protected. I'm sick
> | > | to death of Wiki spam and there's no diff.cgi on there, and I don't
> | > | want to have to remember to police this Wiki besides PerlDesignPatterns.
> | > | The password is 'brock2'. 
> | > 
> | > Did you see my text-based captchca thingie? When you save a page on my
> | > wiki it asks something like "Name a four-letter programming language
> | > that starts with a 'P' and ends in an 'l'", or "This old man came _____
> | > home". Get the answer and you can save the page. Try it out on my
> | > SandBox, http://thelackthereof.org/wiki.pl/SandBox
> | > 
> | > | But wait, there's more! http://phoenix.pm.org/rss.cgi is a cheezeball
> | > | RSS 0.91 feed that (currently) only tells you when a page was last
> | > | edited. Here's how that's useful: if PerlCalendar was recently 
> | > | edited, someone probably posted a meeting announcement, and you should
> | > | pop on over to the site to read it. 
> | > 
> | > Awesome
> | > 
> | > --Brock
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