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iphone

How to keep code and images in multiple bundles in Xcode5

Apple invented “bundles” and “frameworks” to greatly improve the ease of development and maintenance of OS X projects. They are really good.

But Apple modified Xcode to try and stop people using these on iOS. I don’t know why.

Today I delved into this to find out the correct, working, simplest/easiest solution…

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maintenance

Server overloaded by moronic spammers

I got an email this morning noting that my blog was taking “forever” to load a single post.

A quick check, and I found that it was running 70x overloaded, due to a vast number of spammers trying (and, in every case, failing) to submit wordpress comment-spam.

No spams will get through, because wordpress is set to only allow comments from people who’ve commented before – that’s a chicken-egg scenario that spammers can’t escape. (I wonder. Would the scourge that is “wordpress comment-spam” be reduced easily, instantly if Automattic (the people that make WordPress) had this as the default?).

…but at 2,000+ spammers a day, it was bringing the virtual site down. Server was fine, but I had the site limited precisely so that *it* would die instead of the server, in cases like this.

Now we’re going to try something new, since Automattic’s Akismet is pretty much useless these days. Anti-Spam, let’s see how you do…