For those of you that read this blog with any regularlity (and my hearty thanks to you), my apologies for the lack of posts this past week. I’ve had a bit of a personal emergency that’s put all other tasks on the far back burner. I hope to start posting again by the end of this forthcoming week, including some detailed posts on the Yii framework.
I have three decent-size Web sites to do in 2009, so I thought I might try using a PHP framework for the first time, instead of coding everything from scratch. I’ve used Ruby on Rails for Web development before, so I’m comfortable with frameworks and the MVC architecture, but I wanted to educate myself on PHP frameworks. After researching a handful of frameworks, and after an unsatisfying attempt to use Zend Framework, I finally settled on, and really came to appreciate the Yii Framework. The Yii Framework is still quite new, and the documentation isn’t expansive, but it works so well that it’s still quite easy to use. In this first of several posts on the Yii Framework, I just discuss setting up and testing Yii. (continue reading…)
If you have an email address posted on a Web site, you’re almost guaranteed to get spam. Bots scour the Internet, looking through HTML source code to find email address to harvest. Web developers, meanwhile, are constantly trying new techniques to prevent this from happening. In this post, I discuss an interesting study in spam prevention, some of the available techniques, and the route I choose to go on a recent project. (continue reading…)
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