Hacker’s diary

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 = […]

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Amusing fact #1: .NET framework does not have built-in class to load RSA private key from PKCS#1 (PEM) representation. I borrowed this: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/162194/Certificates-to-DB-and-Back Amusing fact #2: creating an RSA key […]

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A couple of hours ago my Outlook at work stopped working getting stuck on “trying to connect”. The Exchange Server appeared to be alive. Restarting and rebooting did not help. […]