I consider myself to be very knowledgeable when it comes to security. I have worked in the security field for about 10 years but being hacked happens to the best of us.
My ordeal started early last week when I got awakened out of my sleep to the sound of my phone texting me that my server was running out of memory. I usually get a text about 3 or 4 times a day but usually it means that the server’s traffic is spiking. But that night it went off about 45 times so I knew something was up.
So recently I was given the task to create a plugin for WordPress that could automatically send blog posts to Tumblr. For those that don’t know what Tumblr is (as hard as that is to believe) its basically a micro blogging site much like Twitter. So as I was saying I had been given a task to make a plugin and luckily Tumblr has a nice API that can easily be integrated into a nice little plugin. If you are not familiar with writing plugins for WordPress I suggest you check out their documentation here. It does not have a fast learning curve but it helps if you have some knowledge of PHP and WordPress.
My first step was of course learning the Tumblr API. Tumblr now has two versions of their API; one is based on a very simple HTTP post method and the newer version uses OAuth.
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