puremango.co.uk

puremango.co.uk is the personal blog of Howard Yeend.

I’m a PHP/mySQL developer by trade, having completed my MSc in Computer Science at Oxford, and my BA in Information Technology and Philosophical Studies (Joint Honours, first class) at Lampeter.

At puremango, you’ll mostly find neat little bits of PHP code that I want to show off; puremango was first built as a showcase of my talents. There’s also an interesting hacking tutorial that’s quite popular (but that I didn’t write), and an article about hacking facebook that’s gained some popularity too (that I did write).

Recently I’ve been doing more JavaScript development at work, and entered a few demos to the JS1k contest, and the aea10k contest, which are fun little experiments in succinct coding.

A few years back, when gmail first launched, I wrote a little PHP script to allow people to store files in their email account, that hit the front page of digg and was covered by quite a few sites. It was pretty hacky “proof of concept” code though, and I haven’t continued to develop it.

My free PHP captcha script also gained a lot of popularity, having being spotted on websites run by Mozilla, Apple, Avast Antivirus and several others back in the day. While developing freeCap, I found a vulnerability in several CAPTCHA scripts that was cited by W3C.

That’s about all I’ve done though. Browse through the site and you’ll see the kind of stuff that’s here.

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