This contact form uses a clock captcha, I thought it was a rather fun idea, and anyway a lot less annoying than those barely readable random strings so many sites use. Source code for this clock captcha can be found here (in German, but the PHP code is clean and easily understandable:)
Author: Ozh
Instant Polaroid Effect to Your Pictures With Javascript
This is pure awesomeness. Instant.js is an 8.5 kb javascript file (uncompressed, you can shrink it down to around 5 kb) which adds on the fly a "Polaroid Effect" to your pictures (white frame, light curl and a drop shadow). What I like about this is the unobstrusiveness (?) and the fact it does not use Flash. Too bad MSIE…
Correctly Spelling WordPress
I came across this little rant about people not writing "WordPress" as it should be (one word, capitalized W and P). While a part of me thought "damn it, who cares", another part was slightly amused. So, this morning, I decided that I would take care of those obsessed people with a simple plugin, and I literally wrote Correctly Spell…
I've just come across Le HibOO (phonetically "the owl" in French), an online magazine about music, movies, clubbing and everything related to going out. I usually spot within seconds if a given site uses WordPress, but this time if it wasn't for the little WP logo in the lower right corner, I would never have found out. I must say I'm pretty impressed with their layout and how they're featuring elements. Very very nice job.
Best Site Ever to Find Flights
I'm currently scheduling my upcoming holidays (in 3 weeks !) and I'm in the middle of the once tedious process of finding the best flight. You know, something with a decent balance between a fair price and a minimal number of connexions and stops in airports you've never heard about before. And I've recently found about the best damn site…
Current Monomaniacal Musical Trend
I'm the kind of guy who listens to one and the same band over a period of time. Like, I find a CD I had forgotten for a long time, or a mismoved mp3 directory buried deep somewhere in my hard drive, and I go "hooooooo I love them" for a week. This time, and for the past 3 weeks…
My good ole friend Arma, busy lawyer during the day, has opened another blog and now writes about random things he likes on My Review. Bon Jovi's fans will like his preview of their upcoming album, Lost Highway.
Overkill Method to Kill Spam #71
Every time I check my referrers, I cannot help but notice all those utterly futile referrer spams from various order-your-pills-online sites. And each time I start thinking about various method to block them all (then I never implement these methods because I mostly don't care about refer spam :) I checked a couple hundreds of referrer domains and, unsurprisingly, about…
My Blog Now Has a Voice !
I'm currently giving a new plugin a try: Odiogo's Listen Button converts your posts to an audio file, ready to be downloaded, podcasted, or just played from within the page while you're reading it. A few years ago I had tried something similar, but it sort of sucked: you needed to register first in order to play audio files. Hopefuly…
WordPress Troubles ? Clean the Cache !
You may have seen a nasty Error 500 for the past two or three hours here, and this is the second time I've had this kind of trouble. Site up, MySQL up, stuff looking OK, except that everything related to WordPress, including the admin area, dies returning an error. It turned out that the culprit was… WordPress' Cache. Apparently, there…