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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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39 Shirts – Leaving Mozilla
In 2001 I had just graduated from a small town high school and headed off to a small town college. I found myself in the quaint computer lab where the substandard computers featured two browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla. It was this lab where I fell...
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Create a Custom “:selected” Pseudo Selector in MooTools
A while back I read a very interesting article by MooTools core developer Jan Kassens about how to create a custom pseudo selector in MooTools. I was surprised at the ease in which one can add their own pseudo selector that I...
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Create Tiny URLs with TinyURL, MooTools, and PHP
Since we've already figured out how to create TinyURL URLs remotely using PHP, we may as well create a small AJAX-enabled tiny URL creator. Using MooTools to do so is almost too easy. The XHTML (Form) We need an input box where the user will enter...



