Category Archives: Development

Web design and development

Annoyed by a guy called Jake Rushton

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Randi Mooney

Jake Rushton was a developer who until recently published a bunch of popular free plugins for WordPress. Giving away free software is normally the domain of “freetards” like myself, however Jake seems to have something of a business-mind, since his … Continue reading →

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Inside the C99Shell, and removing it from WordPress

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Randi Mooney

The C99Shell a.k.a. “C99 Shell” is a PHP backdoor script designed to further compromise insecure web-servers. Once installed onto an insufficiently secure server it is able to automatically install a number of wordpress spesific hacks. In addition it can take … Continue reading →

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Scratch – Smalltalk based realtime programming (for kids)

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Randi Mooney

According to the OLPC project (One Laptop Per Child), the people who are building a sub $100 laptop so that kids in developing countries can become 3lit3 hackers too, the new device will come pre-loaded with a visual smalltalk based … Continue reading →

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WordPress RSS2 content importer, now with enclosures

Posted on February 12, 2006 by Randi Mooney

Last night, while most crazy young people are out getting sorted for E’s and whizz, I decided to stay in and migrate the Exciting Hellebore Shew and Epistaxis Archives over to WordPress. To my dismay it appears that the standard … Continue reading →

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Enhanced Python AllOfMp3.com downloader

Posted on October 16, 2005 by Randi Mooney

I’ve been working on a hacked version of r00tshell’s Python “All Of Mp3 music downloader“; The idea is to take his research into exactly how to connect to the All of MP3 music download service and re-package it as a … Continue reading →

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Viennese Arrival

Posted on September 18, 2005 by Randi Mooney

I’ve just landed in Vienna, in anticipation of the Plone conference 2005. Since my recent work for BlueOrange has been more zope-centric: The company somewhat eschews the majesty of Plone, I hope that this will be a chance to catch … Continue reading →

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SourceForge to Offer Subversion Service

Posted on August 10, 2005 by Randi Mooney

I remember when SourceForge was new, it was revolutionary. Sourceforge gave poor developers the means to host an open source project in public. SourceForge did for free what might be otherwise costly to set up. It gave users a version … Continue reading →

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LibDems vague on software patents

Posted on June 29, 2005 by admin

At the IT conference I am attending, the organisers conducted a straw poll of who opposed the impending Euro-software patent legislation. Everybody I saw was against it; The unambiguous conclusion is that software patents are harmful and the ‘economic majority’ … Continue reading →

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Europython Conference, Day Zero

Posted on June 26, 2005 by admin

I’m off to the Europython conference; My heart is aflutter because I’m running rather late and I know how bad the queues for budget air-lines can be. I’ve never travelled on Ryan-air before and I am expecting the very worst … Continue reading →

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pod.py – A minimal cross-platform “podcatcher”

Posted on June 11, 2005 by admin

I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts recently; a particular favourite is “Escape Pod“, a weekly podcast which aims to revive the genre of the science-fiction short-story. The standard podcast reciever is iPodder, a very feature rich program that … Continue reading →

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