For fun one day, I did the first 10 Project Euler problems in VB.NET. Some people make comments that dot net is too inefficient to do real number crunching and hard work, but for these problems I found it to work just fine. I’ve supplied the Visual Studio 2010 version.
For fun one day, I did the first 10 Project Euler problems in VB.NET. Some people make comments that dot net is too inefficient to do real number crunching and hard work, but for these problems I found it to work just fine. I’ve supplied the Visual Studio 2010 version.
This is a short script that uses a regex expression to grab IP formatted strings from a file, look up the IP in Python’s GeoIP and give back the country code. This is useful for blocking people from the usual suspect countries who always seem to be trying to hack your server or if you’re just curious about the locations of a list of IP addresses.
If your company runs McAfee’s anti virus software product and you need to write a windows application, in VB.net for instance, you find that McAfee will want to block any outgoing emails on standard email ports. Here’s how to work around that limitation.
I’ve never had any formal programming training, even though my day job and my side business require me to know programming and database concepts. I’ve written scripts and programs in various languages including PHP, Javascript, VB.Net, ActionScript 3, and others. Sometimes I like to hack through programming tasks for fun and this time a tried my hand at some C++. Fun!
