CAPTCHA: Striking the Happy Medium Friday September 17th, 2010   •   0 Comments

For as long as the web has been around, Spam has been a prolific problem for developers and site owners. A number of techniques have been developed to combat those annoying little robots that trawl the ‘net and find web forms with which to pedal their wares. But do these methods work, and are they suitable for all application? Well, we thought that it might just be useful to put together a list of some of the most popular techniques, and which ones work best.

iPFaces PHP Mobile Application Framework Monday September 13th, 2010   •   0 Comments

iPFaces is an open source framework developed by Edhouse for simple creation of native application foriPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerryand devices with Mobile Java (J2ME). According the framework's website, the solution is dedicated for web developers experienced in ASP.Net, Java and PHP. So, what's the hype all about, and what exactly can it do.

Google Flexes its HTML 5 Muscles? Tuesday September 7th, 2010   •   0 Comments

nyone that has used Google today will surely have noticed the latest so-called "Google Doodle", a collection of seemingly random-sized balls which animate and randomly move around the user's web browser until finally settling down to produce the company's logo. So what is Google trying to achieve - are they once again showing their strength as online marketeers?!