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A recent site visitor had a fairly simple requirement which involved crawling a specific web page and clicking a button. Pretty basic stuff. And then it happened… clicking that button produced a javascript “confirm()” dialog with OK and Cancel buttons. “Well this won’t be easy” I thought to myself. Just to ensure there wouldn’t be [...]
Well if you’re a student attending the University of Phoenix Online, you may have noticed a number of changes, both to the eCampus and their student tools. They’ve completely redesigned the eCampus site, which of course meant the Phoenix Fetch tool needed to be updated. They also have a new “App” that is similar to [...]
Here is a handy little method that will automate the login process of a WordPress blog/site using VB.Net. This has many uses, such as scraping data from WordPress blogs, adding new posts to a blog from an application, or any other uses you can think of. Private Sub LogInToWordpress(ByVal username As String, ByVal password As [...]
If you’re a user of LiveJournal, or receive any correspondence from someone associated with the site, you may be vulnerable to inadvertently clicking a link that appears to reside on the www.livejournal.com domain. The exploit involves a specific URL format that will redirect the victim to a site/file of the malicious user’s choosing. While the exploit itself is simple in nature, its effects could potentially be very harmful.
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Scraper – Custom .Net Class for HTML/WebBrowser Document scraping and automation
By Steve | December 21, 2010
Scraper – Custom .Net Class for HTML/WebBrowser Document scraping and automation Hey All, Noticed a lot of threads on forums lately asking how to “find hyperlinks” or “click a form button on a web page”. I’ve been working on a Class to make this easier for not only myself, but hopefully others as well. While [...]
PathManipulate – A custom .Net Class for displaying long file paths in different formats
By Steve | December 18, 2010
Here is a Class that can be used to display long filepaths in different formats depending on your needs. You can specify a desired length, the location of ellipses, and whether the filename is always displayed. It can also be used to return only the filename (with extension) when passed a full path. Updates will [...]
If you’ve ever encountered the “A generic error occurred in GDI+” error, it may have resulted in the pulling of hair, throwing of blunt objects or the creation of new swear words! I recently faced this problem in a small app I did, and after hours of scouring Google, I couldn’t find a definitive answer… [...]
Had some interest in the Lookout keylogger application recently, so thought it would be a good time to provide an updated release. This one does a more thorough exception handling job, as well as provides an option to enable or disable error messages (to stay in stealth mode). Adds itself to the Startup folder so [...]
Tonight I finished putting together a GUI front-end for a font tool my buddy is using. This free tool, ttfpatch (http://www.derwok.de/downloads/ttfpatch/), originally coded by Wolfram Eßer is a command-line tool for editing True Type Font attributes. My buddy also wanted the ability to make changes to an entire directory of fonts (he had something like [...]
At work the other day, I was in need of an application that could display the time and date very large for a “Kiosk” type display at the front of a large room. I perused the net for a web page that had the current time and date on it, thinking I could just increase [...]
“The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris” – Larry Wall (Creator of PERL) What are your favorite computer quotes? Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend [Continue [...]
Just got back from the store with your shiny new external hard drive, or you just tackled the UPS guy to rip open your brand new backup solution… you plug it in to your awesome Windows 7 box and!…. nada… If you’re like me, it probably doesn’t detect your drive and you start cursing at [...]
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