Forums Live
I’m satisfied enough with the forums on Web Developers’ Playground for them to go live. They’re still pretty bareboned compared to your typical forum software – for instance, functionality such as quoting other posts hasn’t built in yet – but they should integrate pretty well with the rest of the website software. Next step is to add support for more bbCodes – currently only [b],[i],[u],and [url] – are supported – as well as add some buttons and smileys to the post editor. Look for these in the upcoming week or so, as I hope to get them done before the holiday.
Added Captcha
It seems I made the very costly mistake of not adding a captcha to Web Developers’ Playground. Even worse, I didn’t check last month if I got any comments. The site is there mostly as a way to showcase the languages I know, and knowing I wouldn’t have too many regulars there thought I was safe from spam. WRONG. Well, one night of deleting spam later, I have installed a captcha, required on any type of form submittal. I also wrote up a quick article on why captcha’s are required, including the code required to write a captcha. Since installing late last night, I have gone from 10 spams per hour to none. I think it works 
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New Article Added
Just added an article for Web Developers’ Playground – you can view it at http://www.webdevelopersplayground.com/articles/Don%27t%20Use%20Frames