Set of custom Zend Framework classes, which provide API for using “Asirra”:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access) service.

If you run a blog that accepts comments, you’re probably familiar with comment spam. You could manually verify all comments, but that gets cumbersome after some time. A better solution is using an automatic scanner to verify comments. Like “Mollom”:http://mollom.com/. Mollom checks your comments and provides CAPTCHAs if it’s not 100% sure (about 2% of all comments). This takes the hard work of removing spam out of your hands, with the reassurance that no good content will be blocked.

p. Ok, Monday has come and gone. The reality of the work week is settling in and we are all “counting ‘em down” till Friday. Here’s a quickie to help you fill that void between Sunday night and Friday afternoon. Andreas Gohr has posted a quick tutorial on how to stitch together .WAV files. Click on inside and I’ll dig up the URL.

p. As a web programmer, bots are a pain in my Ethernet port if you catch my drift. So how do you keep them out but let people in? You use those little boxes of random letters and numbers that you can read and decipher but (currently) computers can’t.