Rob Spencer

Programming and Web Development

Entries for May, 2009

Auto Update Wordpress Without FTP

When using the auto update feature to update wordpress to the newest version or to update your plugins, some users wonder why they need to enter ftp details when others don’t. Or maybe you have to enter the ftp information for your wordpress install on one server but not another. Not only do you have [...]

Quick and Easy Way to Keep Bots Off Your Forms

A lot of people ask me how to keep bots from spamming their contact forms. Here is a simple way to do it without implementing a captcha code or other complicated security measures.
Most bots will fill in form fields they recognize with the data they are spamming. When they come across an unknown field, they [...]

It has begun!

Welcome to RobSpencer.net. If you cannot tell from the domain name or the large title above, my name is Rob Spencer.
This is a site I been planning to build for the past few years and finally getting around to it. I plan to talk about the things I do in my everyday work as a [...]