This is a video demo on the Botmaster software that automatically posts your messages to forums, guestbooks, bulletin boards and link directories. It claims to be able to bypass every possible type of protection from automatic registration, including CAPTCHA.
For the non-techie, CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, where a script tries to detect if the current visitor to a particular page is a bot (robot) or real human.
This is the common “type in the characters you see in the box below” text field that you find in almost any form, where the characters are distorted to make it harder for bots to decipher it.
You know when you design your website in photoshop, you will always turn on the rules on the sides to view the pixel measurement. Then after you placed your webbed image in the HTML and view in the browser, you still need to see the pixels (I use CoolRuler).
This is a free AJAX online course by Sang Shin, who is presently working for Sun Microsystems as a Technology architect, consultant, and evangelist. I think webmasters should not pass the chance to sign up for this as this same course is being taught at Brandeis University and Boston University as their regular Graduate degree programs.
To register, all you have to do is send an email to ajaxworkshop-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. To study, you need to read the pre-class reading material and presentation slides (with speakers’ notes) on your own convenient time.
One of the effective way to learn designing websites is to study an ineffective design and re-design it according to the suggested solutions. This is what this website is trying to achieve, by redesigning some 50 websites and the first case in the series is out.
It has some straight-to-the-point facts on each flaw and solution. The developer has been involved in designing websites for 10 years, so you can count on his word.
Well it’s been a long time since I didn’t post any web-related items. Anyway, Steven Hargrove has put up a good guide on the smarter way to redirect pages. Many webmasters tend to move files or even change filenames and risk the search engine pointing the old location or names and get a 404.
Steven’s guide has the perfect solution for these and offers them in a variety of ways, from IIS, mod_rewrite, .htaccess, asp and others.
