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WordPress spam has critically been reduced

A picture says more than thousand words; here is my current stats regarding WordPress-comment-spam on this site.
Akismet spamrate

Going from 9700 spam in October to 17 in November is pretty awesome.
There aren’t many people that leaves comments on the site, but this reduction actually makes the site work faster.

I haven’t read about any spammers been caught nor that Akismet have upgraded their detection routines, if anybody know please let me know!

Get a credit card calendar of your offshore rotation (skiftplan)

In Norway we have several names for this type of calendar: Skiftplan, skiftkalender, rotasjonskalender, offshorekalender and rotasjonsplanlegging. All of them present a typical website calendar which is good for printing out at home or office.

I have been requested to create a credit card calendar solution (lommekalender in Norwegian) to bring in your pocket.
A couple of afternoons have went to finish this off and now it is now open for all!

Check out an example here

Generate your own calendars from http://kalender.werner.no/

This kind of printouts require some labour, from your side 🙂
Find your scissors and cut out the calendars, flip vertical together and glue together.
Laminate the paper to ensure it withhold normal usage in wallet.

A picture says more than 1000-words, so here is some from my early testing.
(Please note that my crappy printer does not have any color, this is more a size-testing thing)
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Multi language on-screen keyboard using Windows keyboard dlls – New article posted!

If you ever tried to make a On-screen keyboard, you probably created your native keyboard layout using an static array, right?
In Windows there are a good variation of keyboards in the %windir%\system32\kbd*.dll
These files cannot be handled out-of-the-box since there are undocumented from Microsoft part.

The article break down the essence to what needs to be handled.
It is also a nice little wrapper to get the data out, quick.

There is also a presentation CStatic that displays a Apple / Android / Windows 8 look-a-like simple keyboard.

Read the whole article here: Multi language on-screen keyboard using Windows keyboard dlls