Friday, September 23, 2011

reCAPTCHA ASP.NET library

I recently had a requirement to implement a CAPTCHA for one of our contact forms to minimize spam.

After much research and consideration I decided to use reCAPTCHA and the reCAPTCHA ASP.NET library.

Step 1 - Create a free account
http://www.google.com/recaptcha

Step 2 - Download the reCAPTCHA ASP.NET library
http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/aspnet.html

I'm using the .Net control but as you'll see it has plugins for several platforms.

To get it working was just a matter of referencing the library in my project, dropping the control on my page and referencing the public/private keys generated in step 1.

Friday, September 16, 2011

jCarousel jQuery plugin

"jCarousel is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation)."

http://sorgalla.com/jcarousel/