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TechTraction’s Friday Finds for 10/26/07 – PHP Cheat Sheet

I’ve been doing some PHP programming at work this past week and found myself repeatedly flipping through books and searching the PHP web site for a quick review of available functions. The page flipping and web searching quickly became tedious. I needed a “cheat sheet” to make my assignment easier. A quick Google search for [...]

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TechTraction’s Friday Finds for 10/19/07: Stop the Perl Bots

Comment spam is a problem for all blogs. To what extent it’s a problem depends entirely on your blogs popularity, whether you have run a spam blocker like Akismet, and what you think constitutes spam. Regardless how much comment spam you have to endure, it’s very likely that some of the spam bots crawling your [...]

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TechTraction’s Friday Finds for 10/05/07: The Curse of Computer Literacy

I suspect that the majority of TechTraction’s readers come from technical backgrounds. Some readers might work in the computer industry while others have probably been tagged as the “computer wizard” amongst family and friends. Whether computer professional or computer hobbyist both routinely get cornered into helping people with computer problems. And while it’s always nice [...]

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