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Wednesday, December 3. 2008
Do you really need CAPTCHAs?
Spam bots are so effective today mostly because there's only a handful of different publishing software used (forum, blog, CMS). This is very convenient, because all information required to write and tweak a bot is identical for all installations. All the bot software has to do is query Google for parts of a particular URL (eg. inurl:yabb.pl or inurl:phpbb/posting.php) and continue with algorithms to circumvent the specific protection (if any).
Continue reading "Eliminate Form Spam Using Behavioural Analysis and Individual Forms"
Wednesday, December 3. 2008
QUOTE: Just like any language, developers can write code in PHP that ranges in quality from truly awful to very good. Learn good programming habits that can help you bridge the productivity gap.
Depending on whom you ask, the difference between a good developer and an excellent developer, in terms of productivity, is a factor of 10 to 20. An excellent developer is more productive because of his experience and good habits. When poor programming habits sneak into your code, they're a drain on productivity. This article demonstrates some good programming habits that can make you a better programmer.
Continue reading "Five Good Programming Habits in PHP"
Tuesday, December 2. 2008
uTest, a new startup, pays users for harvesting bugs in products.
Monday, December 1. 2008
Despite several efforts to bring it down (including the takedown of a major hoster, McColo, which hosted the primary server), the Srizbi network, comprising half a million "zombie PCs" and accountable for approximately 40% of all spam traffic, resurrected itself using an interesting technique: Its bots try to reach domains based on some (not yet disclosed) algorithm.
Continue reading "Srizbi Botnet Resurrects Itself. Interesting Technique."
Monday, December 1. 2008
Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun, wrote an interesting article about the company future, from his point of view. His main statements: Focus on web technologies (you probably guessed that) and give the Java Community Process (JCP) to the community in full.
Continue reading "What Sun Should Do"
Saturday, November 29. 2008
There are so many inventions these days, it's easy to miss one. I've seen Swype logos, but didn't bother to look closer at this gesture based keyboard input software. Watch this demo, it's impressive!
Continue reading "Swype Gesture Keyboard Input for Mobile Devices"
Saturday, November 29. 2008
 Idea: Build an extension for Firefox that supports all popular (and upcoming) peer-to-peer video streaming engines.
Thursday, November 27. 2008
QUOTE: "The Riena platform will be the foundation for building multi-tier enterprise client/server applications. As such Riena will broaden the usage of the service oriented architecture of OSGi/Equinox by providing access to local and remote services in a transparent way. Using this uniform programming model, the components of Riena and the business components of the enterprise application can be developed regardless of their target location. Components are later easily placed on client or server depending on the business requirements."
Thursday, November 27. 2008
Wednesday, November 26. 2008
Martin Fowler suggests to gather (new) requirements by analyzing user behavior within the application/web site.
QUOTE: Everyone knows how big the difference is between what people say they want and what people actually need and use. By watching what people actually do with your application, you can find out what actually happens with the software - which can give you much more direct information than other sources. As a result I think more teams should consider adding this approach to their toolkit.
Wednesday, November 26. 2008
On the Windows 7 development blog, you can find an introduction to the new Windows 7 toolbar. Judge for yourself.
Continue reading "Windows 7: The "All New" Toolbar?"
Wednesday, November 26. 2008
Crowdsourcing seems to be the new future. The Microsoft internationalization team is currently testing "collaborative translation", where visitors aid to improve machine translated content. They're also working on CLIP, a small utility that shows a local translation within the tooltip of a caption.
Continue reading "Croudsourcing for Localization"
Sunday, November 23. 2008
Create funny 'yearbook photographs' of yourself in a few clicks, with styles ranging from 1950 to 2000.
Continue reading "Yearbook Yourself"
Sunday, November 23. 2008
SocketSniff is a nice little utility that lets you monitor network traffic of selected Windows processes.
Continue reading "SocketSniff - Monitor Network Traffic of Specific Applications"
Sunday, November 23. 2008
"Validation" is a short movie that will make you smile. Guaranteed.
Continue reading "Validation."
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