I bought a book I didn’t read before. On the Internet. Paying person I don’t personally know, basing on his reputation only. Believing he would send me a paper copy of his words from the remote land I’ve never even visited. On the other hand he trusted me to write this review and gave me the discount for the very fact. And yet everything worked out pretty well. I transferred the money, got the book, read it and I’m writing the promised review right now. [Read More]

Install “Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Self Host” and all of its dependencies via NuGet. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Web.Http; using System.Web.Http.SelfHost; namespace resttest { public class ExampleData { public int Id { get; set; } } public class ExampleController : ApiController { // /api/job public IEnumerable<ExampleData> Get() { return new List<ExampleData>() { new ExampleData(){ Id = 2 }, new ExampleData(){ Id = 4 } }; } // /api/job/3 public ExampleData Get(int id) { return new ExampleData() { Id = 3 }; } } class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var configuration = new HttpSelfHostConfiguration("http://localhost:1337"); //Setup the routes configuration. [Read More]

Update 2023: crunchbang is no longer a thing, replaced by bunsenlabs Please note that I no longer host this kernel as it is very old and also Crunchbang is no more.** Some time ago I got my hands on CrunchBang Linux distro, which is great. The only thing there that could be better is that my Broadcom BCM43224 WiFi card is not working. But I’m used to it, as many Linux distros do not provide it. [Read More]

Ever cried over damaged disk holding your bitcoin wallet ? Ever formatted storage holding a perfectly valid and the only copy of your wallet.dat ? Yes, me too. Well, there’s Photorec, an opensource file recovery software. It just skips the partition and filesystem info and scans for plain file signatures on the disk. Unfortunately it does not recognize Bitcoin’s Wallet as a file format. Bitcoin wiki states that wallet.dat is just a good old BerkeleyDB. [Read More]