Ian Marsh

We deal with a lot of spam and bots on devbump and after a vulnerability was found in the version of captcha we were using for human verification I had to code a simple math test in its place. That solution is extremely trivial to bypass and so I started looking at alternatives. There [...]

My twin brother David and friend Brian have stepped into the world of Independent Game Development and people need to go check out some of the cool things they're doing. They call themselves NimbleBit and they're making a kart racing game called ZeroGear. If you're a fan or Mario Kart, you're going to [...]

The other week I found myself needing to populate a database with information found on various spots around the web. Unfortunately none of the information was in a standard format (RSS, XML) so I had to scrape the HTML pages the old-fashioned way. I wrote this little scraper class to help out with [...]

Another short-lived previous version of my personal website. While it had a pretty slick interface which used PaperVision3D and lots of dirty little PHP scripts, the whole site slowly evolved out of a demo I did so the design wasn't planned at all and it became difficult to add to the site. Rather [...]

One of the larger projects I've been a part of is the creation of devbump.com with my brother David. It's involved much tweaking of the PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and Smarty templates provided by Pligg. Definitely worth a look if you're at all interested in game development as it contains a wealth of news [...]