Implement an Umbraco/ASP.NET password validation script in Ruby / Python
I have exported about 1K users from an Umbraco database. We have emails and hashed_passwords for each. There appears to be no per-user salt.
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Reimplement ASP.NET Membership and User Password Hashing in Ruby
I have a large database of users (~200,000) that I’m transferring from a ASP.NET application to a Ruby on Rails application. I don’t really want to ask every user to reset their password and so I’m trying to re-implement the C# password hashing function in Ruby.
Sublime Text 2 console input
I use Sublime Text 2 but it won’t let me enter any value when my code asks for user input. (In other words: input() in Python and gets in Ruby fail to correctly prompt me for input). Python throws an EOFError error (what you get when user doesn’t enter anything). Simply USER INPUT isn’t working … Read more
Is everything an object in Python like Ruby?
I read on another Stack Overflow question that Python was just like Ruby, as it relates to “everything’s an object,” and everything in Python was an object, just like Ruby.
Can you monkey patch methods on core types in Python?
Ruby can add methods to the Number class and other core types to get effects like this:
Converting epoch time with milliseconds to datetime
I have used a ruby script to convert iso time stamp to epoch, the files that I am parsing has following time stamp structure:
Find the longest common starting substring in a set of strings
i for i in range(min(map(len, a))), number of maximum lookups can’t be greater than the length of the shortest string; in this example this would evaluate to [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
Integer division by negative number
I was asked (again) today to explain why integer division in Python returns the floor of the result instead of truncating towards zero like C.
Best way to upgrade vim/gvim to 7.3 in Ubuntu 10.04?
I have to use Ubuntu 10.04 at work, and can’t upgrade it. I’m using Vim/gVim 7.2.