As part of the text classification work that I do I follow the uClassify blog who have just release a new web site called Age Analyzer . which guesses the age of the author of a blog. I plugged in the URL of this site and it guessed me in the 26-35 bracket. This would be flattering if you were to look...
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I'm working on a site at the moment and a number of the links on the pages do not need to be followed by the search engine (or other) spiders and do not need to be indexed. These links I set with the nofollow value on the rel attribute in the anchor tag follows: <a href="some-link-goes-here"...
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I've been logging the details of the failed attempts to register on a forum. I described this in my accidental discovery of defeating spam bots with email names . I keep an eye on these logs to understand the nature of spam bots and to pick out markers that make an attempted registration more likely...
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Just encountered a very weird bug in Internet Explorer (IE) with the input/button tag that manifests itself when deployed but does not exist when accessing a site on localhost. Makes no sense to me whatsoever. The tag I had looked like this: <button name="submit" value="submit"...
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I recently decided to give Bing a chance to impress me and it did. However, today I switch my default search back to Google. The reason is not because it's a better search it's because it's a bigger search. While developing I am always hitting errors and problems that are usually answered with a quick...
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ICANN have just released the results of a 10 month study into domain name front running by security expert Benjamin Edelman that concludes that front running at leading domain registration and domain availability-checking sites does not happen. I'd be very surprised if I discovered that a reputable company...
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I've come across this problem before and want to try and document some solutions here. Today's mishap was a blank page from an ASP.NET MVC application when deployed. It turned out that this was because the Authorization system (in this case Active Directory) had not recognized me so the [Authorize(Roles...
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Something that all membership based web sites have to face is the registration of users by spam bots in order to spam the site. One of the reasons that you frequently require site registration is to prevent spam bots from spamming your site. So the first line of defense is to force registration on the...
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I've just found and used this: Online Sprite Generator and wanted to make a note of it before I lost it and could never find it again. It's very easy to use. Take all your icons (or any images) that you have on your site and put them into a single zip. Upload them to the site and generate the CSS and...
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