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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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Conquering Impostor Syndrome
Two years ago I documented my struggles with Imposter Syndrome and the response was immense. I received messages of support and commiseration from new web developers, veteran engineers, and even persons of all experience levels in other professions. I've even caught myself reading the post...
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jQuery Chosen Plugin
Without a doubt, my least favorite form element is the
SELECTelement. The element is almost unstylable, looks different across platforms, has had inconsistent value access, and disaster that is the result ofmultiple=trueis, well, a disaster. Needless to say, whenever a developer goes...![Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips Using MooTools]()
Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips Using MooTools
The jQuery homepage has a pretty suave tooltip-like effect as seen below: Here's how to accomplish this same effect using MooTools. The XHTML The above XHTML was taken directly from the jQuery homepage -- no changes. The CSS The above CSS has been slightly modified to match the CSS rules already...




