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An alternative to captcha

By Brett Gregson On November 22, 2012 · Add Comment
I recently had a situation where I had a form on every page of my website, which to a spam bot might have looked like a comment form. For the first few weeks of the site going live, I got a couple of email notifications per day telling me that people were using the form. [...]
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The patent wars

By Brett Gregson On August 19, 2012 · Add Comment
Yip. Some more exciting news from the world of patent wars, and this is quite a big one. Google’s Motorola Mobility unit has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against apple. Not to many details have been revealed yet, but according to some sources Motorola is looking to ban the imports of pretty much every Apple into [...]
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Facebook stock at a new low

By Brett Gregson On August 16, 2012 · Add Comment
So Facebook’s stock hit a new all time low, trading under $20 a share at $19.69, and even more scary then that, the stock is down about 6% for the day. When Facebook originally started trading publicly some 3 months ago, shares started out at $42 a share. Personally, I think Facebook is going down [...]
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iOS 6 beta – jailbroken, already!

By Brett Gregson On June 14, 2012 · Add Comment
The guys at idownloadblog.com have already posted a video on youtube with them jailbreaking an iPhone running iOS6 beta. No messing about! The jailbreak only works on iPhone 4 GSM/CDMA, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4th Generation.
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iPhone 6 coming soon

By Brett Gregson On June 13, 2012 · 1 Comment
Yes, you read it right. Well, according to my theory. What happened to the iPhone 5? Chances are you have already seen one – the iPhone 4S. What on earth am I talking about right? Lets have a quick look at the history of the iPhone: iPhone The original iPhone was launched in June 2007. This is [...]
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My top 3 nerdy youtube channels

By Brett Gregson On June 10, 2012 · Add Comment
Here is a list of my top 3 “nerdy” youtube channels. All are sort of learning channels covering a range of topics. Check them out! SciShow As the name suggests, SciShow is a show that covers interesting (and funny) science content. They release new videos almost every day. Some of the content is fairly “technical” [...]
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How to make an “Are you sure?” pop up with jQuery

By Brett Gregson On June 8, 2012 · Add Comment
Today, I’m going to show you a really simple, but useful piece of code. We are going to be creating an “Are you sure?” pop up dialogue with javascript. It is really useful for CMS stuff, especially when it comes to deleting data, and helps prevent accidental clicks with disastrous results. “Are you sure you [...]
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SpeedBall II

By Brett Gregson On June 6, 2012 · Add Comment
I have started working on version 2 of the game I developed a while back – SpeedBall. If you haven’t seen it before, please check it out, and feedback is appreciated! A little background information to the game: It its developed using Box2D JS. It was featured on googles Chrome Experiments. The object of the game [...]
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Creating a “did you mean” search function in Yii

By Brett Gregson On June 3, 2012 · Add Comment
Today we are going to be looking at how to create a very basic google style “did you mean” function for our search results. This tutorial is in the Yii framework, but the logic can be applied to any style of programming and as always I’m happy to respond to any questions you might have [...]
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The Facebook phone

By Brett Gregson On May 28, 2012 · Add Comment
Facebook has been in the news a lot lately, first with their IPO and more recently with the news coming out of Facebook releasing a phone. For those of you who don’t know, Facebook did release a phone a few years back, together with INQ mobile. Remember? Neither do I There are a few question [...]
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