Automating WordPress

I recently thought about creating a small website where I would post all the apps that I try and like for the iPhone/ iPod. But then again, I knew, that if it was hard to post and maintain it then I’ll probably end up deleting the whole thing after a few months...

Intrusion detection with Perl

There has been a lot of hype lately concerning WordPress security and vulnerabilities that are out in the open. This is an open source project so the big advantage is that (and i will quote): Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs.  Several folks in the...

Another plugin of mine: YANewsflash

The past couple of days i had a hype for newsflashes. First i wrote this article on how to do a newsflash without any plugin and now i am releasing one! I know, paranoia, but still i figured that it would help people out. For this plugin, i used the options table...

Writing a simple web crawler in Perl

A few weeks back i posted on why our mailboxes are full of spam. I mentioned there that i had created a small and very simple perl script to crawl the internet and fish for plain text emails. It was a pretty easy task since Perl is designed for being easy on text...

The big one: TweetScribe.me

So, you all remember a few days back when i said i have a big project going on? Well, this is it! Tweetscribe.me is a new service i created around twitter. In a nutshell think FeedBurner meets twitter and some more. Here is the idea. You subscribe to your favorite...