Firstly, let me apologize to anyone who may have left a genuine comment on the site.  The level of spam that I get in comments… is stunning.  Hundreds and hundreds every day.  And those are the ones that the automated filter doesn’t pick up.  The latest thing is to post something innocuous that ALMOST relates to the post… in the hope that I’ll just blindly approve it.

Spammers, call yourselves buzz marketers if you like, but there is a spot in hell with your name on it.

Anyway, I’m sure there were some genuine comments in there.  I just don’t have the time to trawl through them.  I’ll keep looking for a better way to manage that.  Comments are my favorite part of blogging.  This is like having a dinner party, and people keep showing up at the door dressed like the UPS man to say ‘Hi, your house very nice.  I appreciating it all time, dude. Buying V1aGr4 very cheap!!!’  Slam!

Now… on to technojunk!

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I have been thrust back into the world of PHP for a current engagement.  Without going into the pros and cons of PHP (truly, it has both), let’s just say that I’ll be using it.  That being the case, I’ve had to rather quickly decide on a development framework for the app… and boy howdy, are there a bunch of them these days. (continue reading…)