How do you deal with twitter spammers?

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I recently discovered twtpoll.com, a free, no-hassle polling system originally designed for polling the twitterverse, though it certainly has promise outsite micro-blogging. Following from a recent discussion with a fellow twitter-er, Carlos--who abhors Twitter spam so much that I will refrain from using his Twitter handle for fear that he may be auto-followed--I created a poll ...

Protecting /server-status and /server-info, sort of.

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Just turned on server-status or server-info? I have previously not made much use of Apache's server-status and server-info functions, but recently I've found a use for them as traffic and development increases on my new server. After a bit of reading online, I noticed that The Apache Software Foundation doesn't even protect their own server-status page. ...

Protecting your phpinfo(), sort of.

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The truly security-conscious developer should write their application with security in mind from the beginning. It will relieve headaches and help to plug potential security holes down the road. To that end, when replacing Slackware with Ubuntu Server on my 64-bit server, I needed some information about the configuration of PHP 5 on Ubuntu, because it ...