I recently wrote up a template engine tool called Templatize. It started as a tool for my girlfriend so she could quickly generate HTML pages from CSV rows for use on eBay, but then quickly grew into a more robust template tool.
Basically it takes a set of input data, containing multiple entities (rows), each with multiple properties (columns), formatted from some type of delimited text file. Then it takes in a master template file and spits out multiple “data-injected” versions of that template.
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Ok, as I was saying. Yeah, all of my websites were defaced because I ended up having a few trojans and a few root kits on my laptop. I ended up using that laptop one time last week to transfer files via FTP. That must have been how my passwords got out.
Anyway, an addendum to my “omgwtfh4x” list… now my Steam account got hijacked. This one happened because I clicked on a link (stupid me) sent to me by a friend on Steam. Turns out, his account was hijacked as well and it wasn’t him sending me the link.
I’m a PC and I got hacked… again.
You know, I wouldn’t mind it so much if they didn’t use viruses and stupid scripts to do it. I mean if someone actually spent hours physically sitting in front of their computer working on cracking into my internal network and grabbing files and stuff from my PC it would be a whole different story. I’d actually want to shake that person’s hand…… and then shoot them in the face. But right now, all I want to do is shoot them in face.
Back in the day (when I used to do this stuff) we didn’t have fancy little ‘viruses’ and ‘trojans’… we actually had to put effort into hacking into people’s stuff.
Grow a pair of figs and do it the way it should be done!
I will keep this short, because my thumbs will get sore from ranting.
I am currently forced to resort to my G1 for posting because my laptop got infected with several trojans and a couple of root kits.
These infections led to my websites being attacked with malware injection. So needless to say, I am a bit pissed. However, trying to find the light side in all of this, I feel like I am important enough for someone to want to do this to me. That is probably a delusion, but it is sort of fun to think like there is a virtual ‘hit’ out on me.
Anyway, I will post more later after my laptop rebuilds.
I am a PC, and I got hacked.
Alright, I’ve finally put my open-source project website woes to rest. I successfully published the first version of CTask-Lite out on GitHub. It can be found here: http://github.com/cdunlap/ctask-lite
CTask-Lite is an easy to install, configure, theme, and use task management system. It is aimed at tiny teams working on ‘open’ projects. What I mean by open is that they don’t care who sees what (because there is no user/role management capability in it).
The Wiki for CTask-Lite is here: http://wiki.github.com/cdunlap/ctask-lite
Spread the word! Download it, use it, mangle it, hack it, fork it, etc.
I wrote a neat little web-based task system in PHP, jQuery, and SQLite last night and wanted a place to put it so I could give it to the world (and maintain my source code).
I checked out Google code, where I have placed several projects of mine. I successfully created a project, but when I’d try to check in the code, the SVN server wasn’t available. At the same time, I’d try to click the “Source” tab on the project that I just created and I’d get an HTTP 500 from Google (which is incredibly rare). So I marked that project for deletion from Google Code.
Then I went over to Source Forge. Source Forge is having issues. I couldn’t get their site to load at the time that I tried, again, HTTP 500 errors. Though I did get an email from them a few days ago saying they were going to be pushing a new UI to their site soon. The email said the service interruptions were only going to be for a few minutes at the most. Lets just say it was more than a few minutes, so I scrapped that idea.
Then I remembered a guy at work recommended GitHub. I’m really new to Git and so far I don’t like it. I find it more difficult to use than SVN–though it is faster by far. So I get the code put up on GitHub just fine, but now I can’t edit the repository details in the admin area. Every time I try to change the project website or description it responds with “Name is already taken”. Ok, minor annoyance. Ignoring that, I went over to the downloads area to upload my ZIP containing the final v1.0 build of the project. It gets 100% done and then I get a HTTP 500 from GitHub. I try to go back to the project page but now I’m getting a HTTP 500 error anytime I try to do anything with my project. Not all of GitHub… my project page. I seem to be the only one affected by this.
So, I’m a bit frustrated at the moment. I guess I’ll start working on one of my closed-source projects and call it a night.