kieranbarnes

Here are a few of my Wordpress plugins that I can’t do without. It is by no means conclusive, just my personal preference.

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I’ve got several scripts that have been failing recently due to the high number of files in a directory.

Say for example, my site wide spamassassin Bayes learning script that runs nightly, it has started failing sometimes when a lot of spam has been caught by users.

I’d see

bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

A fix would look like this

for i in /your/directory
do
rm -rvf $i
done

find would probably also do the same job.

Introduction

KB_Captcha is a simple PHP script to generate reasonably safe CAPTCHA image to secure any public facing web application.

KB_Captcha offers the user a whole selection of options;

• Choice of base image.
• Choice of font (TTF).
• Optional sound generation for accessibility. (Linux only) (more…)

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One of my clients requested that the CRM applicationI wrote should interact with Outlook Calender.
For example, when adding a “Next Call Date” on the web based CRM application, the user’s calendar is updated in Outlook so they are reminded even when not using the CRM application.

It should work for any VCalendar aware application, like Thunderbird & Lightning or Sunbird.
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An unknown Frenchman did a great job at combining and compressing Prototype & script.aculo.us into one ultra-small single Javascript file.

At the time of writing he is on version 1.0.2 which includes Prototype 1.5.1 and Scriptaculous 1.7.1 beta 3
The Protoculous file size is 54.6KB

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A quick morning hack - I added some random lines to try and confuse the automated processes. Its probably still not very secure but it’s a start!

Add the following code below the last imagettftext() line.

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I couldn’t find a very good CAPTCHA generation script in PHP, all the ones I looked at were ugly, over complicated or just rubbish! So I decided to write my own.

They may not be the most secure but at least they look decent!
I will progress this code over time to make the images and code more robush and secure. For now, it is just my ramblings scribbled down.

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I really like JPGraph now. For too long I hated it as a clunky, bloated rather useless graphing library (Sorry!), but now I like it. Really like it.

Over the next few months I’ll be doing a series of articles on using JPGraph.

For now, heres my favourite feature at the moment.

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