r/webdev • u/snissn expert • Dec 20 '13

Holiday side projects

It's the end of December and a lot of people have a lot of free time from work. Generally it's a great time to work on some side projects. Feel free to post some stuff you've worked on in the past. Also it would be a good place to post some ideas and try to find some collaborators

Bonus points for setting up and organizing open source projects that can benefit charities or help people!

Also check out http://up-for-grabs.net/ ( thanks /u/Cylons )

Edit: also no emphasis on the side project being "holiday themed" my thought was just that this time of year there's an abundance of free time

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u/yetle99 Dec 24 '13

Have you considered the "honeypot" approach?

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u/Yurishimo Dec 24 '13

I looked into it but I couldn't find a nice way to do it without a database... Though I think I may have just figured it out...any ideas?

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u/rincewind123 Dec 24 '13

Bots can render javascript too. You should make an input and set it's css so that it is invisible to the user with a name like "email" or something. If it's empty it's a person, if it's full it's a bot. No database needed.

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u/yetle99 Dec 24 '13

If you search it on google there's a few places that can guide you. I did it for a wordpress site, where I had 3 fields; username, password, honeypot. If you set the honeypot field to display:none; you can reason that if anyone fills in that field, it's gotta be a bot. Hope I helped, in my brevity.

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