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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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JavaScript Promise API
While synchronous code is easier to follow and debug, async is generally better for performance and flexibility. Why "hold up the show" when you can trigger numerous requests at once and then handle them when each is ready? Promises are becoming a big part of the JavaScript world...
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![Create Tiny URLs with TinyURL, MooTools, and PHP]()
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...
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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...



