True Identity: Programming

Honey Pot Captcha Technique

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:00:59 GMT

while surfing along my RSS feeds today i read the Honey Pot Captcha Technique its so simple and easy.

First, what is a Captcha? It is a challenge - response test to help determine that you are actually a human. You've undoubted already came across a few of these during a sign up process of some text with a grid or a line through it asking what it says.

Haack came to the conclusion that most bots don't do two things, parse CSS and execute JavaScript. Haack's solution adds in a field in a hidden div tag that a spam bot would fill then checks it server side during the validation of the submission. He even wrote a validation control which is on CodePlex.

14 Tips to Speed Up your web pages.

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:26:53 GMT

Marcelo Calbucci has posted very good article on how to speed up Web Pages renderign on Browsers.

14 Tips to Speed Up Your Web Pages.

Mac Address in Visual Basic.Net

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:07:47 GMT

posting these sort of tips here is actually for future reference.

Dim mc As System.Management.ManagementClass
Dim mo As ManagementObject
mc = New ManagementClass("Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration")
Dim moc As ManagementObjectCollection = mc.GetInstances()
For Each mo In moc
If mo.Item("IPEnabled") = True Then
ListBox1.Items.Add("MAC address " & mo.Item("MacAddress").ToString())
End If
Next

actual Article: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/jkirwan/