{"id":222,"date":"2009-05-16T17:53:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T07:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2017-11-18T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T10:24:11","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I get spare time &#8211; (yeah, right!) &#8211; I have several projects currently on my agenda:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Spam Filters<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen I first joined the internet community in 1992, like many other people I quickly found that email was an incredibly useful communications tool.  Then along came the spammers &#8211; (current estimates have around 95% of all email traffic on the internet as being spam) &#8211; and suddenly it took more time to weed out the rubbish than it actually took to read the legitimate email.  Not very useful.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOne day, after spending nearly an hour on a dialup connection downloading a truck load of messages to discover they were all spam, I decided I could do something about it.  Over the last few years I have been steadily developing a filtering solution &#8211; in it&#8217;s current form, it has enabled me to receive NOT ONE SINGLE PIECE OF SPAM in over five years.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn the past, a few have slipped through when spammers have come up with new attack vectors, but I&#8217;ve never taken more than a day to code in functionality to get around them, but after two years with none at all, I believe I&#8217;ve hit the sweet spot.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe code is actually fairly lightweight, but is not very scalable in it&#8217;s current form.  That&#8217;s the next step along the road &#8211; making it scalable to many thousands of users.  Check the &#8220;<a href=\"\/mwdc\/research\/odyssey\/\">Project Odyssey<\/a>&#8221; page for more information over time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MAWstatus<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe programmer in me always keeps my mind active, and being actively involved with the internet and various internet technologies, I am currently working on a combined Facebook API\/Twitter API project, called &#8220;<a href=\"\/mwdc\/research\/mawstatus\/\">MAWstatus<\/a>&#8220;.  It is in the very early stages, but I have been working with these APIs for some time &#8211; even if there is not a lot to report in regards to this particular project as yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I get spare time &#8211; (yeah, right!) &#8211; I have several projects currently on my agenda: Spam Filters When I first joined the internet community in 1992, like many other people I quickly found that email was an incredibly useful communications tool. Then along came the spammers &#8211; (current estimates have around 95% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10972,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions\/10972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}