Another plugin for Mango Blog...
If you've got ColdFusion 8, you might like to use its built-in CAPTCHA generation instead of using LylaCaptcha (Mango's default). You can see it in action on this blog.
As mentioned earlier, this site is powered by Mango Blog. Having played with it a little to get it installed, I thought I'd look at its extensibility...
The plugin framework seems quite simple once the basic concepts have been understood; so I started to write my first plugin.
I was recently building a new page for a client who required a CAPTCHA to prevent spamming. Great, I thought: I can use ColdFusion 8's <cfimage> tag; which I did, and it was really simple to do.
Shortly after the page went live, I started getting complaints that a lot of the time, the CAPTCHAs were dark, murky, and often unreadable. I couldn't work out why: I'd done some test pages with <cfimage>, and they always looked perfect...
So, I've finally succumbed to the vanity of having my own blog.
I'm a freelance Web designer based near Bath in the UK, specialising in ColdFusion and Web standards development.
This will be my platform for my ramblings about ColdFusion, Web design, and anything else that takes my fancy. I hope it will be of interest to someone other than me...
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