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Simon is a hands-on software architect who works within Detica's Global Financial Markets group. Simon has been involved in projects ranging from desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures (SOA). His specialist technology is Java and, as a hands-on technical authority, he's called upon to advise and shape solutions; defining, delivering and assuring that the chosen architecture is fit for purpose and meets the non-functional requirements. Simon has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at several conferences and founded Coding the Architecture, providing practical and pragmatic content for hands-on software architects.

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Slides from our Software Architect 2008 sessions
As mentioned before, we were speakers at, and community sponsors of the Software Architect 2008 conference (3rd-5th June 2008, London). This is the first dedicated software architecture conference that I've been to and the majority of the ...
London User Group - June 2008
Here are the details of the June London User Group. Title : Themes from the Software Architect 2008 conference Summary : Join us for a discussion of the themes from the recent Software Architect 2008 conference that took place in early June ...
Software architecture training for £500
The first run of our software architecture training is taking place on the 16th/17th of June at Skills Matter. As is traditional with Skills Matter courses, the first teach is offered at a discounted rate, meaning that you can get two days of ...

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[Coding the Architecture] As mentioned before, we were speakers at, and community sponsors of the Software Architect 2008 conference (3rd-5th June 2008, London). This is the first dedicated software architecture conference that I've been to and the majority of the ...

Pebble nofollow plugin

Google have announced they are starting to look for the rel="nofollow" tag in HTML links and will not include such links when indexing web pages and calculating page rank. MSN and Yahoo! have also joined in. Of course, this is pointless without support from those people publishing content on the web, which is why people behind some of the major blogging tools have already signed up. So, step aside, Pebble's gatecrashing the party!

Add nofollow to public referers page : done
Add nofollow to comment and TrackBack author links : done
Build a plugin to add nofollow to links in comment/TrackBack content : done

All of this will be in the next version of Pebble, but this is easy to do now. For (1) and (2), you can edit the following pages within your Pebble install.

/jsp/viewReferers.jsp
/themes/default/jsp/comment.jsp
/themes/default/jsp/trackback.jsp

To use the plugin (3), just drop the pebble-nofollow.jar file (contains classes, source and unit tests) into the /WEB-INF/lib directory of your Pebble installation and restart the server. Then, add the following line to your list of blog entry decorators in the blog properties page.

  pebble.decorator.NoFollowDecorator

Click reload blog to make the new plugin effective and you're done.

This will be shipped with the next version of Pebble, but I wanted to get it out while it's still fresh in peoples minds. This won't be the only spam prevention in the next version of Pebble, but I'll write about this when I get some more time. It's pretty cool to see everybody coming together to help fight spam.

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Posted by Simon Brown on 19 January 2005 10:58:40 GMT #

Re: Pebble nofollow plugin

Comment from Will on 19 January 2005 21:47:23 GMT #

Hey Simon - Thanks for the quick implementation! Time for me to upgrade anyway.

Re: Pebble nofollow plugin

Comment from Simon brown on 19 January 2005 22:33:02 GMT #

You're welcome. :-)

NoFollow plugin for blojsom

TrackBack from bedeviled mojo slop on 19 January 2005 19:26:41 GMT #

NoFollow plugin for blojsom The nofollow plugin adds support for searching through hyperlinks in comments and trackbacks and adding rel="nofollow" for hyperlinks without this attribute. This removes any search engine ranking that comment spammers migh...

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