W-Shadow.com

This is an example of how you can use CURL to “log in” and retrieve some protected info. I’ve showed the somewhat extreme case where you need to maintain cookies, spoof HTTP referer and use SSL. The example page used here is ClickBank – one of the largest digital [...] Continue Reading…

No response from Squidoo about my countdown module yet, so I’m going to write about some problems I encoutered with the Module Development Kit. This is going to be technical and Squidoo-specific, so beware.

A bit of background : Squidoo offers a SDK for module development. This SDK (or MDK [...] Continue Reading…

Recently I decided to take a look at Squidoo and almost immediately I noticed they offered a Module Development Kit. After checking out the list of “Most Wanted” modules it seems a countdown module is a fairly popular idea and should be easy enough to do. A countdown module [...] Continue Reading…

There’s been a lot of talk about Google’s corporate motto – “Don’t be evil” – for years. A fun bit of statistics – searching for “google is evil” yields around 41,700 results while “google is not evil” only produces 5,370 hits.

Here’s my take on it – the motto [...] Continue Reading…

(Another obscure topic here… yay!)

One day not too long ago I remembered the “website heatmap” buzz (not so popular anymore now) and wondered whether I could/should create a software that could generate heatmaps for any particular website. Note that originally the phrase “website heatmap” was used to refer to [...] Continue Reading…