Building Smarter Forms to Block Spam

I personally hate captchas. Sure they are a great way to stop spam but they are an even better way to stop real users from using your site. And once you understand how they work, they aren’t even that great. Most take a word that it knows, and then takes a word that it doesn’t know. If you want to have some fun, the easier of [...]


Things to know about ColdFusion

I took a job to program in ColdFusion and to be honest I’ve never coded in ColdFusion before. Though I’m not a one trick pony either, my list of languages is ASP, PHP, Javascript, C, C++, X86 Assembler, MIPS Assembler, and some JAVA. I normally don’t have too much trouble flowing between them but I am the strongest in [...]





Remote Desktop into Console Session

If you have used remote desktop to a Windows 2003 or 2008 server, you know it likes to open a new session. Which normally is great so you don’t disturb someone using the server’s console but sometimes you need access the main console because a program that can only run one instance may already be running on the console. Goto [...]


Networking

WIFI Signal Degrades More Than You Think


Node-RED

Using Node-Red to send commands to Wifi LED Controllers