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 [...]
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 [...]
I came across an interesting statistic today while perusing the Internet for Everyone homepage.
Alaska, my state of residence, is second only to New Hampshire in regards to broadband adoption rate. 62.5% of homes in Alaska use a broadband connection, compared to New Hampshire’s 64.9% (data was taken from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2007 Current Population [...]
On all of my Tutorials and on my open-source Projects (currently, the Flashdata Notifications and the Request libraries) I have added a Paypal donation link.
If you find these tutorials and projects of value, and have a few spare bucks, donations are gladly accepted and will be used for a variety of programming books (I was [...]
I’ve added another section to the sidebar of this blog (which is visible when reading a post or viewing a category section) entitled Recommended Products. Now, I’m sure if you are anything like me you take these recommended products sections with a grain of salt - they are nothing more than advertisements, right?
Well, not so [...]
