As the administrator of several forums, I don’t even have words to describe how frustrating forum spam has become. On my photo gallery software site, I had to take down the phpbb forums because the signal-to-noise ratio was just out of control. I had been using phpbb for most of the forums I set up for a while, however one of them had become a constant target for hackers and phpBB always...
If you develop software for a living, or if you moderate any online forums, you may have found yourself in the situation where you need a list of banned or blocked words. The problem is, what works for one application doesn’t work for another. A forums targeted at adults can probably have a little more latitude than a game designed for children. Rather than maintaining multiple lists for...
Designing a good GUI is arguably one of the most difficult – and critical – phases of application development. It’s absolutely one of the most overlooked, and part of the reason for that may be the fact that we haven’t had many tools that allow us to quickly and easily throw together a GUI design that can then be put through its paces. Photoshop mock-ups, although easy...
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