specializing in digital media technologies

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…)

The other three posts in my Five JavaScript Tips in Five Days series for Peachpit Press have now been posted. The full set is:

• Handling JSON Data Securely
• Debugging XML/JSON Requests
• Choosing a JavaScript Framework
• Performing Cross-Domain Ajax Requests
• Loading JavaScript Faster