During my talk at the Sussex Geek Dinner recently, I mentioned how lucky I am to be surrounded by friends who are smarter and more talented than I am. I'd like to introduce you to one of them. Her name's Cheryl Annett-Baker but we all call her Relly.

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I just got back to Brighton after a two-day brain dump where Ralph literally injected us with his vast knowledge of Papervision. I'm tired yet invigorated and teeming with ideas :) Thanks, Ralph!

I hope to make time in the coming days to at least play a little with PV3D and post some stuff up here.

I personally find captchas annoying. And most of them are completely inaccessible to people with visual problems. But if you find that you must implement a captcha, you can at least try and make it as painless as possible for the user to use.

First off, let's review what the purpose of a captcha is. A captcha aims to differentiate human beings from bots. As such, there is nothing more annoying than proving to a captcha that you are a human being by replying correctly to it only to be asked again and again when form validation fails for some other field.

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The 19 20 22 entries that we received for the SWX Contest have now been published on the SWX Contest page for public viewing.

Due to the manageable number of entries, we're going to forego the first round of public voting (although you are welcome to leave comments on the entries) and allow our outstanding panel of judges to pick the winners from the Web, API, and Mobile categories in a single round of voting.

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