Here’s a subject that’s close to my heart: secure contact forms.
As I mentioned in a previous tutorial, one common use of contact forms is to help visitors communicate with you without exposing your email address to the email harvesting software used by spammers.
But when it comes to spam, hardly anything’s worse than an insecure contact [...]

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The Memorial Day weekend is coming to a close - I’ve been away from the computer for almost 48 hours (gasp!) and I want to get another jQuery tutorial up and online quickly.
I’m dying to do the write up for “Edit In Place the Jquery Way” and “Multiple File Upload Magic” but the code for [...]

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Rule number one when it comes to preventing spam: Don’t put a your email address in a mailto: link.
To fight the evil Legion of Spammers, web designers and programmers have come up with some creative solutions. Let’s take a quick look at the more common workarounds and the drawbacks (minor as they may be).
name [at-no-spam] [...]

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Today’s tutorial is a quickie. I want to tackle something easy early on in the “15 Days” so that someone new to javascript can sink their teeth into a real world example without getting bogged down in code.
The fact that I find myself desperately short on time today with deadlines looming certainly sealed the [...]

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I’ve prepared a step by step demonstration to take someone else’s well written javascript and reduce it down to 5 lines or less. At the same time you’ll see how I make it a little more flexible and useful.
Take a look at “Stripe your tables the OO way” by Matthew Pennell. His code is clean [...]

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