Archive for April 7th, 2006

Ruby off the Rails

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Despite the uncategorical devotion of people like Mike and Croxy to this language framework called Ruby on Rails I am still a skeptic. Sure, its nice to be a lazy programmer and create a blog in 15 minutes, but do you know how it WORKS. if you get the darknexus classic error of “APPLICATION ERROR” does that really help you find out what you’ve done wrong or if its even a flaw in the overall framework. I have many critisisms of principles Rails but as i freely admit, i have not tried the language out itself as of yet. What with projects and web-dragon work not to mention a certain lady i havnt had the

Kittens Vs Spam

Friday, April 7th, 2006

You know the anti spam measures used on websites, those annoying boxes of garbled text convoluted in such grotesque manners to usualy require concentration and a level of guesswork that just isnt needed in the modern day.
Enter Oli, a random guy who got fed up of the boxes filled with symbols and wanted a new method of authentication. In a stroke of genius (althou ive seen similar methods, but nothing this cute) he created the Kitten Authentication System. All you need to do is click the three kittens on the page to be authenticated, simple yet adorable :)

[ Kitten Authentication ] [ Kitten Auth Demo ]