If you use the Web, you most definitely run into CAPTCHA authentication at one point or another. I personally dislike it and try to avoid using it in my projects as much as possible. Unfortunately there aren’t many ways in which to avoid spammers running bots against your forms and submitting SPAM.
If you also hate [...]
Prevent Form Spam Without CAPTCHA
June 8th, 2009 by NicEasy jQuery AJAX For Backend Developers
March 9th, 2009 by NicThere used to be a time when the backend had most of the power. Us PHP coders and other server-oriented life forms used to say “JavaScript? No, that’s for adding lame tricks that don’t work half the time.” But that was then, in the past few years AJAX and JavaScript in general exploded. All of [...]
Practical Introduction to Firebug
February 23rd, 2009 by NicFirebug is a very well known add-on for Firefox (it also works on other browsers) which allows web developers analyze, troubleshoot, and improve their sites. There’s a huge collection of documents and tutorials to teach you how to use it, how to debug different languages with it, and even how to cook dinner with Firebug [...]
Participate in Building PHP With PHPT
February 13th, 2009 by NicSo you like PHP, and open source software in general. Maybe you figured you’d like to collaborate in one but didn’t feel your skills were up to par. Well, fear not, you can write phpt tests. These are small units of code written in a particular way that allows scripts to build php files for [...]
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A great idea
February 10th, 2009 by NicHere’s a quick link to a resource you’ll come back again and again. The Command Line-Fu sorted by votes. It works by the up and down votes method, but instead of news articles it deals with command line advise.
Here’s the gem at the top of the list [...]
