Most anti-spam methods used by websites today are annoying at best. They use impossible-to-read captcha images, or they make users jump through some kind of hoop to get the email address instead of just clicking on it. This can mean lost sales and opportunities for you, because each hurdle turns away more users.

This article looks at how to use some simple HTML, CSS, & Javascript to protect your private information without making your guests jump through hoops.

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The twitter callback feature is nice – it makes it extremely easy to to add a twitter feed to a page. But to get the most benefit out of it, you really need to understand what it’s doing.

We’re going to look at how AJAX security works, specifically the Same Origin Policy, how Twitter gets around it, and the type of callback that twitter uses.

Note: the callback that twitter uses is entirely different from callback in the sense of passing a javascript function around as a variable. We’ll look at that in a future article.

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Recently a client of mine had me pulling my hair out trying to figure out why some users couldn’t see the the secure https sections of their website.

As it turned out,  the server had been upgraded to TLS only for PCI-compliance, and some users had TLS disabled.

This article goes in to the how, they why, and the solution to fix https websites that aren’t showing up for some users.

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