I recently started exploring a rather alarming phenomenon, which was there all along but has very recently been highlighted to me.
Trim is a useful function available in languages like Java & PHP which removes the leading and traling whitespace(s) from a String.
One of the main challenges of managing multiple dedicated web / database servers is the ability to centrally monitor and manage them, automate tasks which requires out-of-band access like rebooting the server or find out if the server is dying and arrange for replacement ahead of time etc.
I am seeing a steady and alarming rise of russian comment spams.
