Akismet learns, Captcha doesn’t

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I just had an interesting spam attack on my site. It was identical spam contents posted to a bunch of my comment forms. I am using CFFormProtect (of course, I…

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Web Browser Y2K

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You would think we developers would have learned our lesson after the Y2K debacle...but I guess not. We are now faced with a similar problem, but this time dealing with…

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CFFormProtect Compatibility Release

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I have released CFFormProtect 2.0.2, which has one minor change that makes it compatible with other CFML versions/engines besides ColdFusion 8. If you are curious, I had used the ++…

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CFFormProtect is now in BlogCFC

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If you missed the news, CFFormProtect is now built into BlogCFC. So if you use BlogCFC, after you upgrade to version 5.9.2, you just have to add "usecfp" to our…

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CFFormProtect 2.0.1

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Yes, that .1 at the end there means this is a bug fix release. I don't know how this slipped through my fingers, but CFFormProtect 2.0 had a major bug…

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CFFormProtect 2.0 released

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I have finally pushed version 2.0 out the door. This new version has a lot of bug fixes, and I added support for the Project Honey Pot service. I Have…

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CFUnited Topic Survey

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The CFUnited organizers are doing something a little different this year to pick the conference topics. Like normal, they had an open call for speakers time period (now expired). But…

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Yet another Captcha alternative

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Ed Tabara posted a blog entry about a new spam prevention service for blogs that I hadn't heard of. It's called Defensio, and it's similar to Akismet, but it looks…

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Reasons not to use Captcha

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I don't get as angry about Captcha as I used to, but on occasion someone asks me why I don't like it. I figured I'd post this list here so…

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