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Web Scraping with Go
Web scraping (Wikipedia entry) is a handy tool to have in your arsenal. It can be useful in a variety of situations, like when a website does not provide an API, or you need to parse and extract web content programmatically. This tutorial walks through using the standard library to perform a variety of tasks like making requests, changing headers, setting cookies, using regular expressions, and parsing URLs. It also covers the basics of the goquery package (a jQuery like tool) to scrape information from an HTML web page on the internet.
If you need to reverse engineering a web application based on the network traffic, it may also be helpful to learn how to do packet capture, injection, and analysis with Gopacket.
If you are downloading and storing content from a site you scrape, you may be interested in working with files in Go.
Standard Input, Output, and Error in Java
When writing command line applications in Java, you may want to prompt the user for input or a password, process a file, or pipe the output of another process through your application. This tutorial will walk through the process of using standard input, output, and error in Java.
Packet capturing in Java with Pcap4j
This tutorial will cover packet capturing in the Java programming language using the pcap4j library. Learn how to read and write pcap files and process packets using filters.
Taking Command Line Arguments in Bash
Bash scripts are commonly used to perform a variety of tasks. These examples describe various ways you can work with command line arguments.
Taking Command Line Arguments in Java
Taking command line arguments is one of the first things you should learn how to do with a new language. In this tutorial we'll walk through a simple Java program that takes command line arguments. We'll look at how to check if any arguments were passed, access them directly by numerical index, and iterate through each argument provided.
Maven Basics for Java Developers
In this tutorial, we'll walk through basics of using Maven to create projects, compile Java source code, and package our application as a standalone .jar with dependencies embedded, a Windows .exe, a Mac .app, and a Debian or Ubuntu based .deb package. I'll also mention some common settings and my recommended plugins.
Install multiple JDK in Windows for Java Development
In this tutorial we will walk through the process of installing the Java 1.8 and Java 9 JDKs in Windows for Java development. When we're done, we'll have both JDKs installed, with one of them set up as our default leaving us with a Java development environment ready to compile and run applications.
Make a Discord Bot with Python - Part 2
Make a Discord Bot with Python
This tutorial walks through the process of creating a server, creating a bot, and writing a custom Python script to power the bot.
Security with Go - My book now published!
Check out Security with Go, a book I recently wrote, available from Packt Publishing. It covers secure development, red team and blue team topics and is useful for developers and infosec professionals like analysts, investigators, engineers, and pentesters. It's a great book if you want to get to know Go better or if you want to start using Go for security.
Discord Webhook Tutorial to Check Bitcoin Price with Python
This tutorial walks through the process of creating a Discord webhook and triggering it with a custom Python script.
Similarities Between Music and Programming
After years of learning and teaching both music and programming, I have noticed many similarities. These are some of my opinions and interesting scientific studies that give some insight in to their relationship.
Python Tutorial - Functions
Python Tutorial - Guessing Game
Python Tutorial - User Input and Output
Python Tutorial - Starting Your Cookbook
PyCharm Tips
Creating Systemd Service Files
systemd is used in many mainstream Linux distributions like Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat/Fedora, openSuse, Slackware, CoreOS and more. It provides an easy way to manage and control services and a simple method of creating your own services. This will cover the process of creating and managing your own custom service.
You should copy your .service file to /etc/systemd/system
. Do not symlink it. One, you can't run systemctl enable because you it will not follow a symlink. Two, it potentially opens up a security risk (e.g. a shell). For example, you run your service as a low privilege user but you are symlinking the .service file. Someone finds a flaw in your service where they are able to overwrite or modify files. They can turn that in to code execution by modifying the .service file that your low privilege user has access to and changing the command that is run (ExecStart
). When the service is restarted the attackers command is run. This is also why you should not run the service as root.
Note that you can also put the files in /usr/lib/systemd/system/
but that should be reserved for system level packages. Anything in /etc/systemd/system
will override it and that is where user changes should go.
Setting up Tor Proxy and Hidden Services in Linux
Learn how to set up Tor proxy and hidden services in Linux.
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