Akismet learns, Captcha doesn’t
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…
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…
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…
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 ++…
This article is bound to be controversial, but I beg you to keep an open mind as you read. I have put a lot of research into this, it is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…