Archive for the ‘Nonsense’ Category
A safe-for-cached-pages method of filtering out spam comments by requiring at least some time to have passed between the time the page is loaded and the form is submitted.
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Posted on 27 August 2011 and last updated on 22 January 2012
by Oliver Baty
with tags application, blogging, coding, comment spam, database, javascript, php, programming, security, spam, templates, themes, web app, WordPress, xhtml
and categorized Nonsense, Tutorials, Web Site Dev, WordPress
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We have been using I-GO car sharing for a few months now, since we sold the Volvo Cross Country (which I loved) to cut down on our monthly expenses. With the car loan, parking, gas, maintenance, and insurance, we were paying around $400 a month, and because we both take public transportation whenever possible, we [...]
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Posted on 25 August 2011 and last updated on 29 January 2012
by Oliver Baty
and categorized Nonsense
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My notes on learning Object Oriented Programming in PHP.
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Posted on 30 July 2011
by Oliver Baty
with tags application, coding, php, programming, web app
and categorized Nonsense, Web Site Dev
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Extracting certain large zip files using Windows’ native compression utility fails with a pretty neat error: You need an additional 5.99 PB to copy these files.
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Posted on 28 July 2011
by Oliver Baty
with tags application, Microsoft, troubleshooting, Windows 7
and categorized Nonsense
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After the Xbox forums were redesigned, some of the old forum’s content was moved to a subdomain and abandoned.
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Posted on 8 July 2011
by Oliver Baty
with tags IIS, Microsoft, Xbox 360
and categorized Microsoft, Nonsense
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Just how quickly does Googlebot visit a page after it is linked to from a post on blogspot.com?
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Posted on 29 June 2011
by Oliver Baty
with tags Google, php
and categorized Nonsense, Web Site Dev
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A refund of contributions is the best we’re going to get from Bright Start and Office of the Illinois State Treasurer after they botch a promotion and disappoint over 7,000 account owners.
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Posted on 20 June 2011 and last updated on 29 June 2011
by Oliver Baty
and categorized Nonsense, Thriftiness
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A short list of my programming accomplishments.
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Posted on 12 June 2011
by Oliver Baty
with tags Apache, application, coding, database, downloads, javascript, mysql, php, programming, web app, WordPress, xhtml
and categorized Nonsense, Web Site Dev
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A rant about the badly mismanaged Illinois Bright Start College Savings Program Deposit Match promotion of June, 2010, in which a very small percentage of the program participants had any chance of taking advantage of the offer.
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Posted on 7 June 2011 and last updated on 28 June 2011
by Oliver Baty
and categorized Nonsense, Thriftiness
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A referral link for a free month of games (2 out at a time) from GameFly.
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Posted on 28 May 2011 and last updated on 11 November 2011
by Oliver Baty
with tags Xbox 360
and categorized Nonsense
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A cache-friendly method for reducing WordPress comment spam
A safe-for-cached-pages method of filtering out spam comments by requiring at least some time to have passed between the time the page is loaded and the form is submitted.
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Posted on 27 August 2011 and last updated on 22 January 2012 by Oliver Baty with tags application, blogging, coding, comment spam, database, javascript, php, programming, security, spam, templates, themes, web app, WordPress, xhtml and categorized Nonsense, Tutorials, Web Site Dev, WordPress
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