Here's yet another article I'm working on for MSDN and again, comments are welcome.  A printer friendly version is here.  The source is available here.

It seems OpenNETCF can't go long without getting some jackass spammer having to ply their nefarious trade agaianst us.  This time they've got a bot that generaes user accounts for the Forums, then posts new topics and replies.  In the user signature they have links to an online casino.

So yet again, instead of doing productive work (writing a Deployment article), I'm sitting at my PC adding a Mod to the Forums to allow me to ban IP addresses.  Hopefully this will cure it.  If they become more persistent, then I guess we'll have to go to moderation or something similar.

For anyone collecting the data, or wishing to call a spammer on the phone, or are an anti-spammer that can use the info, here's the info on this one:

IP: 80.178.205.11

organisation:   ORG-GLIC1-RIPE
org-name:       Golden Lines International Communication Services Ltd.
org-type:       LIR
address:        25 Hasivim St.
                K. Matalon
address:        41970
address:        Petach Tikva
address:        Israel
phone:          +97239291122
fax-no:         +97239274608
admin-c:        DR5299-RIPE
admin-c:        AG914-RIPE
admin-c:        GE2074-RIPE
admin-c:        MH21010-RIPE
admin-c:        IB737-RIPE
admin-c:        KI373-RIPE
mnt-ref:        AS9116-MNT
mnt-ref:        RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
source:         RIPE # Filtered

Here's another article I'm working on for MSDN.  Again, comments are welcome.  A printer friendly version is here.  The source is available here.

Here's a draft of an article I'm putting together for MSDN.  Comments are welcome.  A printer friendly version is here.

I just bought a new tool for tracking web stats (Web Log Explorer) and am a bit surprised at some of what I see.  For example, where are visitors coming from, geographically speaking?  Well, here it is:

Unfortunately I can report that the visitors from Aruba were not me (they're in the “other” chunk, with at probably a hundred other countries).