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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]