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How I Stopped WordPress Comment Spam
I love almost every part of being a tech blogger: learning, preaching, bantering, researching. The one part about blogging that I absolutely loathe: dealing with SPAM comments. For the past two years, my blog has registered 8,000+ SPAM comments per day. PER DAY. Bloating my database...
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Detect DOM Node Insertions with JavaScript and CSS Animations
I work with an awesome cast of developers at Mozilla, and one of them in Daniel Buchner. Daniel's shared with me an awesome strategy for detecting when nodes have been injected into a parent node without using the deprecated DOM Events API.
Incredible Demos
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SmoothScroll Using MooTools 1.2
A while back I wrote a post about MooTools' SmoothScroll plugin which allows you to smoothly take a user to a specific portion of a page. By default, the browser "jerks" you up or down in the page when you click on an...
![PHP / MooTools 1.2 Accordion Helper]()
PHP / MooTools 1.2 Accordion Helper
The MooTools Accordion plugin seems to be the plugin that people seem to have the most problems with. It's an awesome plugin, so I can see why so many people want to use it, but I think that may be part of the problem.



