Web Design Blog - June 29, 2010

PHP creating a very simple captcha

You just launched your contact form, and now you are receiving head spinning amounts of spam. How will you ever get it to stop? Where is this coming from? Unfortunately we live in a day where many people are trying to make some quick bucks generating enormous amounts of spam to your inbox. One of the ways they do this is to use a bot to run around the internet looking for simple forms that it can submit it's spam to. These bots will eventually find their way onto your contact form, especially as... read more!

Jun 29, 2010 3:44pm by Mike Vandenberghe

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PHP migrating data avoiding id collisions

You ever needed to move a lot of data from one database to another but maintain relationships and key associations? You can export a sql or csv dump and import it into another database, but this leaves one major problem.... If you are using incrementing numerical id's then your import into the second database will probably create id collisions ( ids from the old database being the same as the ids in the new database ). If both of the databases are used frequently, the amount of collisions will p... read more!

Jun 29, 2010 3:32pm by Mike Vandenberghe

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Adobe Dreamweaver Shortcuts

Have you ever discovered a keyboard shortcut by accident? You know, you are just doing your thing and bam you hit the wrong key and something unexpected happens. Sometimes it is good and sometimes it is bad. When it is a good surprise you quickly try to figure out the key combo your fat fingers just stumbled upon. I had an epiphany the other day that many of the keyboard shortcuts I use daily were discovered this way. Typically I don't scour the manual when I get a new piece of software. I was p... read more!

Jun 29, 2010 7:51am by Jeff Nicholson

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