links for 2007-04-23

• PHP Classes – Class: Form Spam Bot Blocker
  generates a text input that is invisible to the user. A human user would not fill this input. If the input is submitted with a value, it was certainly a robot + a few other tricks (ip, user agent and timer checks).
  (tags: Spam PHP security forms webdevelopment html)
• Understanding Mobile 2.0
  the first of a mini-series on the topic of Mobile 2.0 – this one looks at the read write web for mobile devices. Thoughtful and well researched, includes a good set of links to further reading.
  (tags: mobile mobile2.0 web2.0 cellphone mlearning toread)
• AIMIA Finalists
  the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association award finalists – 100 multimedia ‘jewels’ in a dozen different categories. I’m not sure whether this is inspirational or frightening, but either way it’s a window into our current cultural zeitgeist
  (tags: zeitgeist multimedia flash inspriation advertising videogames aimia)
• Networks, Connections and Community: Learning with Social Software
  research investigating the use of social software in TAFE teaching and learning. Eight case studies on how social software/Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and virtual conferencing, support teaching and learning in the vocational edu
  (tags: socialsoftware tafe elearning constructivism connectivism flexiblelearning toread)
• Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)
  a set of JavaScript utilities and controls for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX.
  (tags: javascript ajax yahoo library programming web2.0 UI YUI webdevelopment)