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 “PHP [...]

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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 [...]

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Back on October 1st I wrote about DoFollow (the counter option to the default nofollow setting for blog comments) attracting a new breed of spam I called “fringe spam” (seemingly legitimate very general comment that points to an obvious spam URL). I’ve received more comments on that post than I normally do, and, surprisingly enough, [...]

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Today is the official Blog Action Day. A day when bloggers around the world come together to raise awareness of a single topic: the environment.
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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 [...]

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DoFollow is the counter movement to the nofollow default setting for blog comments. Gaining significant popularity since its inception DoFollow sounded great on the surface but not everyone was convinced it was worth the risk. An escalation in comment spam was the primary fear, but anti-spam plug-ins such as Akismet have managed to keep [...]

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