Come to my (first) CF Meetup: Captcha-Free Spam Prevention for ColdFusion Forms

Tired of Spam? (Who isn't?)

No matter how good our filters are, or how careful we may be about making our email addresses publicly accessible, some of the nasty stuff still gets through.

But there is a way to fight back, defending your websites' contact forms and other form-to-email inputs, without making your website visitors jump through extra hoops, solve puzzles or read fuzzy scrambled letters (captcha) just to drop you a note.

To learn more, tune into my ColdFusion Meetup presentation this Thursday, October 15, 2009. (If you haven't yet attended the CF Meetup, this is a good time to start!)

Details here: http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/boards/view/viewthread?thread=7841126

The live meetup will be here: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/

Recording will be posted here: http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com/

See you at Noon Eastern (10am here in Utah) on Thursday, October 15 !

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Nice Job Michael. I only got to the last 20 minutes. But it was nice to be in there. Nice job. Cfmeetup, communitymx articles, cw... And he's off :)
# Author Chris Luksha | 10/15/09 1:00 PM
Great presentation, Michael! Very well presented and useful info...I'll be putting it to work today!
# Author Rick | 10/15/09 1:20 PM
Just wondering - you mentioned in the end of the preso that you had ie/ff sitting in another window running a virtual "refresh every x seconds" kind of thing so that you were watching the changes you made almost in real time.

How did you accomplish this?
Chris
# Author Chris Luksha | 10/15/09 1:26 PM
@rick: thanks! I'll get the code posted shortly in a new blog entry

@chris: Firefox extension "Reload Every" lets you set any refresh rate you want for your browser ... cool stuff. (also, "alt-tab,f5,alt-tab" to switch from Eclipse to FF, refresh, and switch back, manually, when the auto refresh is not desired)
# Author Michael Evangelista | 10/15/09 1:34 PM
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