So, just a few days ago I installed ASP.Net Core using their tutorial for CentOS 7 under Fedora. Good news — it works without any further issues (maybe except for the fact, that they forgotten to mention adding source ~/.dnx/dnvm/dnvm.sh to bash_profile). It went really smoothly, and I could even create new Visual Studio project using VS Code tutorial for creating projects, and it was working out-of box as well (using Yeoman for creating new ASP.Net projects is somehow weird solution in my opinion, but at least it works without any issues).

So, as the new year break is coming to an end, I finally found some time to look into new ASP.Net 5 MVC version (currently marked as a Release Candidate) and started working on some simple project that I currently call FoodyRater on Visual Studio 2015 Community version. First things that I decided to set up was website layout and authorization by Google account.

As for layout, it went surprisingly smooth — I just right-clicked project name, selected “Managed Bower Packages” and replaced Bootstrap/jQuery with ‘Admin-lte’ package. Then all I had to do was change the shared _Layout.cshtml file and everything started working.

Tl;dr; version: Byte order mark in text file was responsible for Integer.parseInt() method throwing an exception (if it wasn’t obvious from a title).

That post is probably first one to talk about some specific issue, so here we go for a ride! In case you missed categories marks — it’s about Java, version 1.8.0_45.

Yesterday I was teaching my girlfriend how to code in Java (let me omit my reasons for choosing this language). It was actually related to the second day of Advent of Code (which was described in the previous post) assignment. Suddenly I received a complaint from her that her IDE was throwing a NumberFormatException for her Integer.parseInt() method.

Mostly this one will be more of an advertisement than an actual post, but still I would like to write about it.

From the beginning of December, the website AdventOfCode.com offers daily challenges for software developers to solve as programming exercises. You write code on your own in any language you prefer for the input provided by the website, and then you have to send back the results. At the moment I do it as a warm‑up before starting my work day.

Yes, so basically this is first post on this blog. If you wanted to see what I was writing in the past, then this is the end, you won’t have to scroll any further.

As for what will be written here… Probably mostly IT-related stuff. I’m a programmer, so that would make sense. Keep in mind that I have ADHD when it comes to frameworks, and languages, so expect all kind of posts about different technologies.