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Fighting Forum Spambots

Fighting Forum Spambots

If ready-made solutions (e.g. WordPress), where there is a risk that forum spambots could participate in filling out forms (discussion, registration, etc.), have provisions for this built in - then in solutions built from scratch, this kind of protection must be thought through by the developer.

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Eye Colour

Eye Colour

Each of us has at some point met a person whose eye colour has astonished or moved us. Most often it is the owners of saturated eye colours who attract our attention - coal-black, deep green, or unusually light blue eyes. Poetry is written about them, songs are composed, because they create a certain impression of mystery and otherworldliness. Eye colour is often used to try to determine a person's character or traits. Although scientists claim that the only thing that can be determined 100% from eye colour are markers of genetic heritage.

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The Comfort Zone

The Comfort Zone

A personal comfort zone is in reality a terrible thing, as it significantly hinders any change or development in a person's life. Any influence of external circumstances or the people around us directed at changing our personal comfort zone is perceived as a threat. One's own comfort zone can only be changed by the person themselves, if they are ready to relinquish their victim or hero status in the eyes of another - most often a very close and significant person. Are you ready to share what your comfort zone is?

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Spain - Passing Through - Part III

Spain - Passing Through - Part III

On Saturday we visited Spain's sixth largest city SARAGOSSA (Zaragoza). On this very day preparations for the Fiesta del Pilar were in full swing there. The streets were full of locals and the city's guests. We went to wander through the city and mingled with the crowd. Here are a few views from the sidelines.

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MySQL: NULL, 0, or -1 as the Default Value?

Situation description: Two tables: agent and operations. The operations table has a foreign key defined on the agentID field pointing to the agent table. Problem: A default value needs to be created for the agentID field.

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Spain - Passing Through - Part II

Spain - Passing Through - Part II

On this day, on the return from Portugal, we visited several Spanish cities in one go. The road led through Castile, where parched fields alternated with clusters of low trees and in the distance a mountain lay grey. An open and rewarding place for solar panel farms, which could be spotted from time to time in the distance.

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Cheb Mami and Zucchero - "Cosi Celeste"

Cheb Mami and Zucchero - "Cosi Celeste"

I recommend listening to one fantastic song about love. Two talented singers - Italian rock bluesman Zucchero and Arabic singer Cheb Mami - perform it simultaneously in two languages. The melody and the colour of these two different languages, as well as the combination of rhythms, in my view, also produce that perfect effect.

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Spain - Passing Through - Part I

Spain - Passing Through - Part I

Last autumn we were in Spain for only a brief while, approximately 2–3 days, passing through on the way to Portugal and back. We travelled by tourist coach with the company "Fēnikss" (by the way, I wouldn't recommend this operator to anyone - for the first time in my life we got so thoroughly "burned"). The autumnal weather - rare rays of sunshine, a fine drizzle flickering from time to time, fog - was not exactly the best ally.

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MySQL: User-Defined Variables in SQL Queries

MySQL: User-Defined Variables in SQL Queries

This time my interest fell specifically on user-defined variables. They can be broadly divided into two categories: declared variables, used in procedures and functions, and undeclared variables, also used in procedures and functions, but which can be used in an SQL query "in-line".

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Sirtaki - A Greek National Dance?

Sirtaki - A Greek National Dance?

Sirtaki (συρτάκι) is widely regarded as an integral symbol of Greece and considered to be a Greek folk dance. Although this dance is gladly danced in Greece today, it turns out that the belief about its roots is mistaken. Whatever the case, sirtaki can be considered proof of what dance and dancing mean to the Greeks.

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