Today I got extremely sick of coming on to see many hundreds of emails in my inbox from spam bots. I know a few posts ago I mentioned that I would be looking out for a solution, and I did. Unfortunately I have the attention span of a 3 year old and I forgot what I was doing fairly quick.

Today I was doing my normal blog run and I stopped by the site of a friend and co worker Douglas F Shearer when I happened across this post on his blog. Toward the end of the post he makes a short mention about how he’s now using something called Akismet as a potential guard against spam....

As an old PHP hat I’ve missed the ability of being able to grab a random number out of a range ala PHP’s sweet rand() function. Sure it’s easy to create an alternative, but it’s just not as convenient. Today a friend of mine had a need to do just that. However there was a catch: He needed to pull a random number from a range, yet ignore a variable amount of numbers from that range.

The solution I came up with, which I figured may be of some use to somebody, was this:...

I realise that everyone is hyped about how great Typo is, and I do really appreciate the hard work that was put in to it’s creation, but I’m going to have to vent for a bit.

Typo has such a large number of annoyances that I have no idea how I’ve never heard about them until I discovered them through normal use....