Silvan Mühlemann posted the results of a year and a half long study in which he tested various ways of obfuscating email addresses. He posted a webpage with nine unique email addresses, each obfuscated in a different way, and tracked how much spam was sent to each box.
Unfortunately, only one of the methods that resulted [...]
While deployed to the desert the military always labels it as an opportunity to improve yourself. Whether it be college coursework (doing it), physical fitness, or a variety of other self-improvement options.
I’ve decided to take this time to complete the One Hundred Push-ups challenge. It’s a 6-week program for people of any skill level. You [...]
PHPFour has just posted an excellent extended model for CodeIgniter. It is definitely an impressive piece of code and I have already included it within my local application repository (meaning, it’s going to become an active part of all my future CodeIgniter applications).
I had been working on my own ORM solution but I think PHPFour’s [...]
Clever Andy just went live after an aggressive marketing campaign that had a lot of people curious.
The basic premise behind the service is simple and has been accomplished in the past. Designers usually present more than one concept to a client and when the client makes their final decision, the left over designs don’t have [...]
There are literally hundreds of social networks out there each with their own niche and target audience. Rarely do I find one that I am actually interested in using - I have profiles at LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, and who knows how many others but I couldn’t tell you the last time I logged into any [...]
I’ve used Skype in the past - just for Skype-to-Skype calls.
I’ve been debating how to stay in contact with my wife without literally killing myself. With her in Alaska, the prime time to call her is around 10-11 PM my time. On top of that, I have to walk a mile and a half to [...]
How to Split an Atom just posted a list of 32 Sci-Fi novels everyone should read, amazingly - 4 of my favorite 5 books made the list: Animal Farm by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
My fifth book, which isn’t on the list [...]
Avnet Labs has a few great articles in which they compare CodeIgniter to the Zend Framework. I have often been lured over to the Zend Framework, simply because it’s the “official” solution but I always come back over to CodeIgniter after a week or two of playing around in Zend. I simply can’t get things [...]
This is a great opportunity for Powerset - they’ve yet to go public with their entire product (they currently only allow searches of Wikipedia content) and Microsoft is sure to benefit, but are they going about this the right way? Adding Powerset to Live Search is a waste of the technology!
Mathew Davies was recently featured on Community Voice (Elliot Haughin and myself were featured in past articles) where he discusses some of the security features within his Redux Authentication library. In his Community Voice he even took the opportunity to mention an article I wrote before the crash of 2008, referencing how to handle a [...]
