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New Very Relaxed PHP Framework Released

Celeroo-Frame is a little, fast and very relaxed PHP MVC framework. Some developers would even say it’s not a framework but a collection of libraries and coding practices. It’s ok to call it that – the most important thing is it helps you build PHP/MySQL applications really fast. Celeroo-Frame can be downloaded here. Celeroo-Frame is a result of mine [...]

Six Ajax Problems That Make Your Application Look Dumb

Do you remember how websites looked 3-4 years ago? There was no Ajax at all, maybe only some fancy useless HTML. Is it now better? In general, I think yes. But Ajax is often being a bit abused, and what’s worst people want Ajax in their web applications no matter why. This forces many web [...]

Wordpress Plugin For First Time Visitors On Your Blog

I just wrote a simple plugin for Wordpress which lets you display some text, HTML code and/or images to your first time visitors. It works with a cookie, so you know, some may see it more than once.
Enjoy the plugin here.

Use Ajax To Stop Spammers

Some time ago I wrote about how to stop spammers without Captcha. The technique described there works pretty sweet on several sites already, but there is a way to go even further.
The Problem
Well to be frank, the spam protection described in the previous post works at 100% already in several sites. But in [...]

Stop Using PHP Template Engines Once And For All (Why Smarty Is Evil)

Do you know why PHP was initially created? I am sure you do, but many programmers have forgotten. The first purpose of PHP was to create simple dynamic web pages.
Who knows why (seriously, do you know WHY?) groups of PHP developers keep working on PHP template engines which are supposed to help separating the [...]

How To Stop The Spammers Without CAPTCHA? (Case Study)

You know the CAPTCHA images (called also Turing codes) are used everywhere – on blogs, forums, registration and contact forms – to stop spammers. They work almost perfect.
But they are boring.
The Captcha can significantly decrease the rate of feedback (comments) you get on your blog, the contact inquiries you receive, the registrations on your membership [...]