JavaScript WTF #5: no map() for iterables
In the last few days I did some formal reading and informal experimenting with EcmaScript6, and compiled the list of its most annoying “features”. The fifth place goes to complete […]
Hacker’s diary
The Procrustean bed of Resharper formatting
I was playing with some Javascript in Visual Studio, and I found that it gets annoyingly reformatted every time I end a statement or a block. Visual Studio formatting options […]
Windows Defender Is Not Good for Web Development
I was installing some web stuff using npm, and noticed that it takes a lot of time on my home computer compared to my work computer. It turned out that […]
Javascript arrow function WTF
I thought that JavaScript arrow functions are just a shorthand notation for regular functions. I was wrong, and I found it the hard way. Arrow function treat ‘this’ keyword differently. […]
Apache: how to properly secure a folder
Here’s the scenario: the folder named “secure” contains sensitive data and should be protected by user name and password. To redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS and enforce basic authentication […]
Tool to write text with arbitrary diacritics?
Looking at the famous answer explaining why parsing HTML with RegEx is a bad idea made me wondering: what tool the poster used to type so many diacritics? Quick googling […]
Windows 10 hard drive boots successfuly when moved to another machine
I moved an SSD drive with Windows 10 from one machine to another machine with completely different hardware, and to my surprise it booted successfully! Older versions of Windows would […]
Cannot connect to RDP
We have run into the strangest thing on our production machines, which are Windows Server 2012. The symptom is that you try to connect to the remote desktop, and immediately […]
My blog has new home!
Over the Thanksgiving week-end I have moved the blog to an Ubuntu virtual machine and have also changed the WordPress theme. The URL is still the same: http://www.ikriv.com/, but the […]
nUnit test cases with dates
nUnit has a great feature of running multiple similar test cases via data-driven approach: [TestCase(“”, “”)] [TestCase(“q”, “q”)] [TestCase(“xyz”, “zyx”)] public void TestStringReverse(string s, string expectedResult) { var result = […]