Ian Marsh

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28 Dec, 2007

Flickcha - PHP4

Posted by: Ian In: PHP

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 [...]

21 Dec, 2007

web scraper class - PHP4

Posted by: Ian In: PHP

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 [...]

21 Dec, 2007

devbump - cool game development stuff

Posted by: Ian In: Javascript| PHP

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 [...]



  • Bernard: Thank you for this wonderful game it is superbly. My partner is blind she can just see a little, I write the nine letters on an A4 sheet in felt pen a
  • Jean: Hi Ian, I was just checking, but Scoops is just for iTouch and iPhones? Is it possible to make it available for iPod Nanos? because they still have t
  • John GIBSON: Hi Ian; Once again, congratulations on Scoops. The game truly epitomises everything that the iPhone stands for. I understand you starting this