Hello again. It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything on this blog, so I thought I’d recap on the past 2-3 years of my absence.
The latest project I’ve been working on is PyCrawler, a web crawler written in Python by my friend Theanti9(his blog here). He wrote most of the existing functionality, but I’ve been adding some features that are useful for me to migrate websites that are on seperate, different CMS’s, something that is normally left to mass copy and paste(which is easier said than done with a database driven CMS like dotCMS). MY additions include stripping HTML tags from content and formatting that content into an easily usable database, for reentry in another cms. Also, all static files, css and javascript can be downloaded and formatted for easy inclusion. In the future, I’m toying with the idea of using pycrawler as a security testing tool that spits out interesting information about a page, such as forms and get or post parameters. It would be nice to automagically look for unsanitized input methods, but I’ve no idea how that could be implemented.
Aside from PyCrawler, the only programming I’ve done has been projects for work.
In school I’ve gone through numerous classes in a variety of IT related subjects – enterprise level networking(from physical wiring to logical design), network security/IA, analog electronics, systems logic and design.
