Category Archives: Web

Extracting Information from StudiVZ

Posted on October 19, 2009 by BlackHC

Some time ago somebody stole 1 million data records from StudiVZ, the German Facebook clone. I’m not exactly sure why people call the person a hacker who stole data, because it appears he simply wrote a tool that harvested the … Continue reading →

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How to make WordPress display Full Text in RSS Feeds

Posted on January 31, 2009 by BlackHC

… and why WordPress Moderators are obviously idiots Today I got an email asking me to enable full text RSS feeds – so far so good, only when I activated the “Full Text” option nothing changed – neither in FireFox, … Continue reading →

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WordPress Hacking II

Posted on January 24, 2009 by BlackHC

I have a few private pages that I use to store random stuff and ideas and private pages (for a reason I don’t understand) don’t show up in the pages widget. It turns out that WordPress’s get_pages function always filters … Continue reading →

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Best-of-Explosm Web 2.0

Posted on December 28, 2008 by BlackHC

Yahoo Pipes are an interesting concept, as are the other existing mashup tools (like Microsoft’s Popfly or Ubiquity), and it is amazing what can be done with a few clicks with them. Because I’ve wanted to learn how to work … Continue reading →

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More WordPress Pimping

Posted on December 12, 2008 by BlackHC

PHP and CSS and all that funky web design stuff are funky, because they are so easy to use and you quickly get results. I like it. I’ve decided to release my first plugin into the world (it’s big hack, … Continue reading →

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WordPress Hacking

Posted on November 22, 2008 by BlackHC

Since I’ve been working on another blog (http://info1.blackhc.net) for my tutorial at university, I’ve played around with using Microsoft Word for publishing and editing content on the blog. I gotta say that SmartArts are really nice and good way to … Continue reading →

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