Finally! A really good spamkiller for WordPress. I used Kittens Spaminator a while, but it started to let messages through. Then I switched to a spamassasin brindge for WordPress, but it was moderating valid comments, and sifting through the moderation queue was too much work. Now I’ve installed SpamKarma 2 which seems to be working excellent. Stupid spammers can eat my shorts cause I got karma! 😉
So I did my first adventure into the world of AJAX today. Nothing fancy, just a lookup on the server for the name of the area based on the zip code. DWR made it all a breeze. I spent a little time figuring out the config, but the amount of config and amount of code I had to do was extremely small. And thanks to the Spring integration it initialised and served up one of my simpler DAOs just like that, no changes to it.
I’m not really that experienced in JavaScript, so this would probably take me ages without DWR. Excellent lib!
Ted Neward has a good response to an article by Floyd Marinescu here.
He discusses the history of EJB, weaknesses and what he sees as the wrong and correct use of EJB. Especially the dangers of thinking that distribution can be done with “complete” OO POJO models. Just face it, you can’t. Remoting and distribution is expensive and difficult, don’t think it’s transparent.