.NET string comparison is not lexicographical
This Friday I wrote a unit test and to my astonishment I have found that “a” < “A” < “ab”, with .NETÂ InvariantCulture and InvariantCultureIgnoreCase string comparers. That means that .NET […]
Cheap M-amp-Ms!
HTML entities are taking over. Here’s what I saw today in our local Target:
C#: Make base class containing common tests abstract
I was testing various sorting algorithms, so I had a base class that SortTestBase that contained actual tests and accepted the algorithm in the constructor, and derived classes that supplied […]
Where is my 3D Earth?
I heard all the buzz about 3D Earth view in Google Maps, but it did not work in my Chrome browser at home. I initially thought Google is doing some […]
Git: remember to use ––no-ff when merging feature branch to master
A few days ago I ran into a situation when I forgot to add –no-ff when merging a feature branch into master. The result was a mess. State before the […]
How to do console output in WPF
If you wish to access standard input and output in your WPF app, you will have to compile it as a Console app and fire up the WPF application object […]
Insane Apache RewriteRules
I have just spent a few fun hours fighting Apache rewrite rules in an .htaccess file. It turns out that temporary redirects just work, but permanent redirects require RewriteBase! Frankly, […]
Cloning an Azure virtual machine (long)
I needed to move my virtual machine from one MSDN subscription to another. There is a “Move” option in Azure portal, but it works only if you can access both […]
Template Factory Builder
Hurrah, our project actually has a class named (Something)TemplateFactoryBuilder! What does it do? Well, it’s very easy. It takes a serialized string and creates a factory, which will produce a […]
DotNetCore App on Ubuntu: you need libunwind8
DotNetCore provides two types of installs: framework-dependent install and self-contained install. I tried to compile a hello-world app on Windows and run it on Ubuntu that has neither dotnetcore SDK […]