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Another blog name change

Gareth — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:38:52 +0000

I decided yesterday to change the name of my blog, yet again, so that I wasn’t just dropping everything into a subdomain of my family site. So, with that in mind, I decided to call the the “new” blog FlexOOP (pronounced just as it looks flex – oop, sounds similar to flex “zoop” ). A coworker of mine used to run cfoop (a ColdFusion Object Oriented site), and, while my coding may not always be the best OOP, I always strive to make it that way, thus the birth of flexOOP.com

Déjà vu?

Gareth — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:05:55 +0000

I have started to copy over some of my blog posts from ColdFusion Community in order to keep everything that I’m typing localized in one spot. Hopefully this will save me from having to search 2 places when I’m trying to figure out an answer to something I’ve already solved previously. So, if you have a feeling of Déjà vu, it may be you were enjoying my nonsense before.

FlexAbility is now FlexFusion

Gareth — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:55:38 +0000

Yeah, that didn’t take long, did it. I was browsing around trying to figure out how a spam bot managed to find my site (I only managed to get it up and running myself recently), and checked out Google, when lo-and-behold, I come across FlexAbility; however, not my FlexAbility, someone else’s. It was such a good name that someone else thought of it first. So, rather than confuse everyone when my site becomes big and famous, I thought that I would change the name. As I’m the only one reading this (oh yes, and the spammers), I don’t think I have to worry about someone confusing my site. This seems like a good compromise for a name though, so I think I’ll stick with it this time (and no other sites came up with my initial search so phpt!)

Welcome to FlexFusion!

Spomment (or whatever they’re called)

Gareth — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:33:22 +0000

I have no idea how the spam bots even found me, but Akismet already managed to capture one spam comment attempt. I set this blog up 2 days ago, logged on today and found 1 spam comment attempt. I guess I shouldn’t be too impressed as the spammers seem to always be on top of things, but come on, at least give regular people a chance to check things out before spamming me.

And on that note, what a brilliant plugin Akismet is. It looked at the comment, flagged it, and notified me in the admin section. Very nice!