Disappointing end to WebVulnCrawl project

25th September 2007

It's been nearly a year and a half since I blogged about the WebVulnCrawl bot, and slightly less than that since the crawling was completed by Dennis.

I was very eager to see the results, and had pestered Dennis via his blog several times over the months (comments from me and others have now disappeared from his blogspot for some reason). So I was initially surprised and then very interested to see a post from this now unfamiliar blog in my reader - "Long Overdue - The Final Post".

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Developers developers developers developers?

1st September 2007

Microsoft love developers. They want to make our lives better. They want to make it really, really easy for us to develop software for their operating systems. Everyone remembers how excited and sweaty Mr Ballmer got as he reminded everyone just how much they care:

This is why if you want to write, say, some device drivers, you can just go to their website, download the Driver Development Kit for Windows Server 2003, unpack it, install it and start using it. 10 minutes. Including the time to download the 230MB DDK.

Great stuff.

But things have changed...

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Geotagging Traffic Jams with Yahoo Pipes

3rd August 2007

The Highways Agency has been publishing traffic information as RSS feeds for a while now, but they contain too much noise to be useful for me. My daily commute is just 28 miles to work and back, I certainly don't cover the entire East of England so a lot of the alerts are of no interest to me.

With Yahoo Pipes, I can filter out the noise to leave just the incidents that I might be interested in. To start with, here's a simple pipe to cut down the alerts to just those with "A14" in the title: A14 traffic news.

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