2008 can be called the year of automation, and the fight against bots, and also a bit of the year of PHP.
In my work, I often had to imitate user actions on websites. No crime. It’s just that some of our partners did not have an API, but wanted to cooperate. I actively developed my skills in working with web requests and regular expressions.
I also created bots to analyze web projects.
One of these bots was a program for searching for vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection. Subsequently, I wrote a short article on this topic for RSDN magazine.
And of course I had to develop mechanisms to protect sites from bots.
In the spring, I found a customer with a store project in ASP.NET WebForms (VB). But by this point my team had completely disintegrated. I worked on the project alone.
I liked .NET technology, but in 2008 it was very expensive to maintain hosting, and especially a server for Windows projects. I was looking for ways to cut costs.
One of the cost optimization solutions was to use PHP.
In 2008, I rewrote my home page from ASP.NET to PHP. This was my first own PHP web project. Strictly speaking, I have used PHP before, including in commercial projects. But it was my home page that became a truly full-fledged and complete PHP project, created from scratch.
At the end of the year I released another website in PHP - VBNet.Su.
Also, this year I started writing articles for the paper magazine Hard’n’Soft on computer topics.
Aleksey Nemiro
2023-09-10
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