Google Drive may be silently renaming your files

Just a friendly warning. If you try to store copy of standard Apache HTTP Server web root, git repository, some Linux directories, etc in the Google Drive, then do not be surprised when Google silently corrupts the filenames by renaming dot (.) to underscore (_). For me this is happening to nix hidden files (begins …

WordPress still insecure by design

Some major WordPress design flaws have led to widespread attacks on our and your servers. The only hope is reasonably long and strong passwords or WordPress security plugins. The first flaw. By default WordPress have enabled “feature”, when you visit your blog with author query string appended, it nicely reveals your usernames. For example, if …

How to save / receive jpg image or any binary data in C# Web Api 2

Searched all through the web for a simple way to save / receive binary data or image file using Web Api 2. Solutions range from very complex to complex: using JSON (30% overhead?) BSON (looks nice, but not widely supported – bsonspec.org) Multipart MIME (why multi-part, if we have only one file?) Complex Web Api …