StartCom free SSL certificates go bust
StartCom certificate authority that hands out free SSL certificates, is no longer recognized by major browsers. I’ve got their certificate back in May 2016, and it worked fine, but in […]
StartCom certificate authority that hands out free SSL certificates, is no longer recognized by major browsers. I’ve got their certificate back in May 2016, and it worked fine, but in […]
Nuget Package Manager 3.4.4 for Visual Studio 2015 does not work with our local NuGet server. Apparently, they broke something compared to version 3.3.0, some redirect or whatever. New client […]
As part of one of my projects I needed to use Microsoft DIA SDK. In particular, I wanted to retrieve source files checksums stored in PDB files. DIA SDK is a […]
Resharper almost keeps class methods in order, but it puts everything with a [DispId] attribute in front. Teleric JustDecompile seems to sort things in alphabetical order. Neither seems to have […]
I recently noticed that voice messages produced by Google Maps driving directions changed from “turn left onto Foobar street”, and “in 2 miles take exit 27 towards Sleepytown” to simply […]
A couple of weeks ago I ran into a problem: I had a DLL file, but I was not certain which version of the source code it was compiled from […]
In my previous project we developed server-side software, that could only be deployed to production once a week. On Tuesday night you submit the binaries to Beta environment, and on […]
A couple of minutes ago I received a call from an automated system pretending to be from JP Morgan Chase that gave me an “online access code” and asked to […]
Big corporations love uniformity: things are much easier to manage if they are all alike. But then they may also fail all at the same time, with catastrophic consequences. Remember […]
TL;DRÂ Dynamic “semver” versioning is evil, because it makes it too easy to break things on a global scale. With semver versioning the builds are not-repeatable: you may get one version […]