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I’ve decided to give the web service, Mollom, a try since my CAPTCHA, which I kept tweaking to the point where I nearly couldn’t read it, was letting me down. The problem with CAPTCHA is it logs how many form submissions it blocks, which is great, but this doesn’t necessarily mean SPAM submissions; it could be frustrated people not being able to post a comment on your blog. Mollom works by analysing the form submission for SPAM patterns, then determining whether it is suitable or not. It’s quite strange to see my forms without a CAPTCHA underneath, but I should know soon enough how well the service works as I have many form submissions blocked by CAPTCHA each day.

Mollom is available for Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla! and many more CMSs. It also has developer libraries for PHP, Java, Ruby, Python and many more.

The CodeIgniter framework is a secret weapon for many web developers as it allows you to quickly build complex web applications in a structured and organised way. I started using CodeIgniter over a year ago now so I’ve approached Packt’s CodeIgniter 1.7 by Jose Argudo Blanco and David Upson as a way of expanding upon when I’ve already learnt from the user guide, forums and a book which I had previously read from Wrox called Professional CodeIgniter by Thomas Myer.

I’ve just installed the Drupal Editor app for Android and this is my first ‘test post’ if you will. It’s quite a simple app that connects to your Drupal site through the core blog api module. It then shows a list of all Drupal blogs and allows you to view, edit or delete the posts. You can also post new entries and assign taxonomy terms to them. It’s simple and gets the job done!

To install this app search for ‘Drupal Editor’ on the Android Market. Enjoy!

For some reason, even though I have the PHP Development Tools (PDT) installed in Aptana Studio (2.0), I’m not able to select ‘PHP nature’ in the ‘Project natures’ of an imported project. I can start a new PHP Project which will have the ‘PHP nature’ selected as primary nature, but this doesn’t even appear as an option in imported projects. The only two natures that are available are ‘Remote Nature’ and ‘Web Nature’. The ‘PHP nature’ adds some really useful functions, like grouping my @todos into Aptana’s Tasks view and also other handy things like auto-completing PHP docblocks.

Reminders, whether from calendars or todo lists, are typically time based, so they will remind you to perform an action at a desired time. However, I’ve just discovered location based reminders or ‘geo-reminders’ and this could possibly be my favourite life hack! When I say discovered, I actually had the idea when I got home from the supermarket having forgotten several necessities, but naturally this has already been thought of and many location based reminder apps already exist.