Defensio: Outsmarting Evil Spam

Many plugin and library updates have just been posted to our website. He’s a brief summary…

Blogging platforms

• Wordpress plugin: updated to version 1.2. It fixes all the known issues.
• Pixelpost plugin: updated to version 1.1. Adds the Defensio counter and a few more eye candy (like in Wordpress).  Thanks Dennis!

Developer libraries

• PHP 5 library: Greg Neustaetter was kind enough to develop a library for PHP 5 (we already had PHP 4). Thanks!
• Perl library: Brad Choate has built the awesome Net::Defensio library in record time. Thanks!
• Python library: Camilo Lopez wrote a simple but effective library for Python (with unit tests). Congrats!

(is this a coincidence? All these programming languages start with a P!)

Thanks to everybody who contributed their time. We appreciate it very much!

Whoa, that was fast! It’s exactly one day after launch, and the super-fly Defensio community has already churned out plug-ins for PHP and Java. Big thanks to Nils and Rémy for their contributions — you guys are A-OK in our books.

If you’re an application developer, this is good news. There are now pre-built Defensio libraries for Rails, .NET, PHP and Java that wrap our open API, so you’ll be able to all-the-more-easily integrate Defensio into your world-changing app!

And many thanks to all the people that have already downloaded our WordPress plug-in and provided feedback. We enjoy taking care of your spam.