There are many ways to extract data elements from web pages, almost all of them prettier and cooler than the method proposed here, but as we are in an hurry, let’s get that data quickly, ok? Suppose we have to…
One of the most common roadblocks when scraping the content of web sites is getting the full contents of the page, including JS-generated data elements (probably, the ones you are looking for). So, when using CEFSharp to scrape a site,…
Sometimes, this site goes down, and the following homepage appears: The jos_session gets corrupted, a frequent issue with Joomla 1.5.x installations. Luckily, fixing this issue is quite simple, just log into the phpMyAdmin site (usually at the following address: http://www.mywebsite.com/phpMyAdmin)…
Back in 2010, security researcher Ron Bowes wrote a Ruby script that downloads information from Facebook’s user directory, a searchable index of public profile pages. The directory did not expose a user’s entire profile and only exposed information that the…
At the time of writing, the SkyDrive client application on Windows does not support bandwidth throttling on uploads, so if you start uploading a large number of files, it will try to use all the available bandwidth, and this behaviour…
The Flash library by Mikal Hart is a wonderful piece of software for improving simple web server apps built on the Arduino: the main problem when designing such apps is that the limited number of RAM available forces the designer…
Table of contents 1 – Introduction to Amazon SimpleDB 2 – SimpleDB and Delphi 3 – Extending Data.Cloud.AmazonAPI Download SimpleDBExplorer project files and executable Introduction to Amazon SimpleDB The best description of the Amazon SimpleDB service is given by…
The Contact form in Joomla! uses the mail server settings to send the contact request email to the site administrator. However, when using SMTP servers (I’ve tried both Yahoo! and GMail SMTP servers), it does not work, as the email…