Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Sorry Filterset.G but it is time for you to go · 2006-11-23 18:05 by Wladimir Palant
The issues with Filterset.G have been discussed several times in the forums and now it is official — I recommend Adblock Plus users to uninstall Filterset.G Updater and use some other subscription instead.
What happened to the promised spam solution? · 2006-11-23 17:35 by Wladimir Palant
Do you still remember? Sometime in the beginning of year 2004 Bill Gates promised us to take care of the spam problem by 2006. It was big in the news all over the world.
Hit counts for element hiding revisited · 2006-11-21 17:48 by Wladimir Palant
I was finally able to come up with a working (yet not exactly simple) scheme to implement hit counts for element hiding. It can also be used to show hidden elements in the sidebar and maybe even make element hiding rules respect whitelisting. There are two disadvantages however:
It is good to be right - we are No. 1! · 2006-11-21 12:29 by Wladimir Palant
December last year I had a discussion with rue, maintainer of the original Adblock extension. We were talking about the the necessity of major changes, and I was trying to convince him that these changes are long overdue. At some point rue proudly proclaimed something like: “We stayed in the Top5 for the last year — not bad considering we didn’t have any changes at all”. My answer was: “That’s not an achievement, this project has the potential to be No. 1”. And there we are, less than a year later — Adblock Plus is now the most popular extension on Addons.Mozilla.Org. It is good to be right, I knew it was possible!
What should happen to the mailing list? · 2006-11-17 02:24 by Wladimir Palant
I am seriously considering killing Adblock Plus mailing list. It receives several spam mails every day that I have to remove from the queue. The real traffic on the mailing list is very low if compared to what I get as Bugzilla reports, blog comments or private mails (and I don’t want to even try comparing it to the forum traffic).
Moving to Germany · 2006-11-11 03:03 by Wladimir Palant
I just came back from Germany a few days ago and now (in a few hours) I am going there again. This came quite unexpectedly, I didn’t know myself until two days ago. This time I will stay in Darmstadt for a few months, working with the guys at the university and hopefully producing something useful together. I should come back to Oslo in the beginning of March to finish my PhD thesis — plan is to be all done before May. That’s some crazy time coming up…
Spare time projects and the "donate now" syndrome · 2006-11-07 04:46 by Wladimir Palant
I guess many of you have seen this development of a project already, maybe even more than once. Some developer has an idea he works on in his spare time. He shares his work with others without asking anything in return and the feedback allows him to improve it to a point where this project gains some popularity. Great features are being added, there are lots of plans for the future — until suddenly the project stalls. That’s usually the point where the developer explains that he needs money that would allow him to spend more time on the project.
Upgraded to Textpattern 4.0.4 · 2006-11-05 23:05 by Wladimir Palant
Textpattern 4.0.4 has been released and now I upgraded this site. RSS encoding issues have been fixed so that I could drop one of my patches — good. Textpattern now has what looks like decent support for the Last-Modified header, yet it shows the date when anything has been changed anywhere on the server — could be better. Some forms will probably need to be changed, I already had to tweak the comments display. But what I am mostly worried about are the changes to the Textile markup module which is the most fragile part of the whole application. Right now the HTML code of the pages is cached but once I start editing them I’ll probably have to fight invalid markup again. Please watch out for anything on this site that isn’t working/showing up as it should and drop me a mail if you notice something.
Moving Adblock Plus focus from filters to subscriptions · 2006-10-28 09:00 by Wladimir Palant
Brian Yi (you probably know him as “Stupid Head” in the forums) wrote down some nice ideas about the reasons for popularity of Adblock (Plus) and how the development should continue. He points out that most people can’t create their own filters or simply don’t want to spend their time on this. That’s why subscriptions are so important for wide-spread adoption, they allow people to install Adblock Plus once and let it run all by itself.
Now that news video is funny! · 2006-10-28 08:16 by Wladimir Palant