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Fighting spam using MySQL and PHP

posted on 27 December 2006 (07:14 PM)

Spam is a terrible, terrible thing. And I'm not even talking about spam emails. Luckily, I don't receive a lot of Viagra, free offers or casino coupons in my mailbox, so when that happens, I just send them straight to the trash bin.

I'm talking about comment spam. This form of spamming is even worse, 'cause it's out in the open, where everyone can read it, polluting innocent websites that have got nothing to do whatsoever with that malicious content.

In this article I will provide a way to arm yourself against this criminal behaviour.

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Merry Christmas everyone!

posted on 25 December 2006 (03:10 AM)

Just a short post to wish you all a very merry Christmas.

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Vfields: Variable length input fields

posted on 13 December 2006 (02:37 PM)

Personally, I don't like it when the data I submit in an online form exceeds the input field I'm typing in.

It's annoying when half of your text gets cut off by the edge of the field. So today, I thought of a way to (perhaps) make input fields more usable.

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Whatstyle is renewed!

posted on 02 December 2006 (05:48 PM)

Phew, the new version is finally up and running. It took me a while, but here we are.

To you friendly visitors not much has changed, but the back-end has undergone some pretty big alterations. Read on to learn more...

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