About this website

This website is produced by myself. This means that all photos, texts, server administration, drawings and other stuffs have been created and/or written and/or done by myself (unless specifically mentionned).

I am into a few things the big 3 axes (not the evil kind) would be, computing, photography and complaining about shit.

Softwares and Technologies

The content management system (Php/MySQL) as well as the markup (HTML5/CSS) has been developed by myself as well using a work in progress CMS called "Blah CMS". The softwares/languages/technologies used to create this whole mess are:

  • Vim
  • Php
  • MySQL
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Inkscape
  • Gimp
  • KColorChoser
  • Apache
  • Subversion
  • Firebug
  • Debian GNU/Linux

I have used some other stuff in the past like Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop, but those days are way over, if it's not Free Software then I wont use it. Another thing here is that there is no javascript on this site, yes this means no google analytics as well. Javascript does not mean that it's bad, however I would only use it in a case where it were impossible to do what I need with the above mentionned stuff. As well Javascript should only enhance a website, many webmasters have become dependant to it to a point that by visiting their sites without JS activated on your browser you may notice many things don't work, sometimes even inlcuding "security" features.

About Comment Moderation

In the battle against Spam comments and all that crap the Internet (or most of it) has given up on being reasonable. In order to comment on most sites you will have to sign up for an account and decipher some words or prove you have very basic math skills. Some have even given up entirely their comment moderation to 3rd parties. All these methods have prevented spam comments as well as plain comments.

On this site you do not need to sign up or even have a valid email address. All I ask is that you provide a name, email address that seems valid and a message. Your message may not contain BBcoded links or HTML links (if you do, you get an error message and you can correct your comment). I use other anti-bot techniques and many "comment spam bots" cannot even visit this site. With just this method I don't get many spam comments.

Encrypted Version

This site is now available encrypted using a self signed certificate. Actually I have signed it using my own CA. In anycase should you want to use the encrypted version simply add an 's' to http (or install my root CA). Please note you should verify the fingerprint against the DNS TXT record for, for the certificate on manurevah.com: dig manurevah.com TXT +trace For the actual root certificate dig ca.manurevah.com TXT +trace This will let you confirm that you are really on my website. :]

For more information on this SSL thing read this.