#30. AppHarbor is the best hosting for beginning freelance .Net developers

AppHarbor is a cloud computing service where we can create web applications in .Net, those applications can be continuous integrated with our github or bitbucket repository. The service downloads our newest revision in the hooked repository and executes all tests in the solution before publishing the new revision.

AppHarbor is free of charge with some limitations, but with enough possibilities for starting freelancers, like me.

So, if you are starting your freelance career as a .Net developer you should check it out. I am just promoting as a satisfied user, nothing more.

For example the homepage of Wishlist Manager is hosted in AppHarbor.

#24. move a folder and compress it on-the-fly showing progress

#20. Sorry tumblr, ifttt rules

I’ve been thinking of changing the blog to try another blog management site, currently I don’t want to host it myself so one of my options was tumblr, it’s a simple and easy to manage blogging site but as I was going to try couldn’t use windows live writer with it, searching for a solution found out that they don’t use a standard API, so I won’t be using their site directly, I’ll probably use ifttt a service to post indirectly through conditions.

#18. Renew TOR identity in python with vidalia bundle to automate worldwide testing of your website

First of all you need to have the Vidalia Bundle, and configure the torrc config file, find the value HashedControlPassword and uncomment it, next you need to create the hashed password, to do it, you can execute in a command line "tor --hash-password {pass}"
Copy the hash and save it in the config file. Restart Vidalia.
Taken this code from Moshe Basanchig, I've written this code wich authenticates against TOR:



Be careful, you should pass to the function the password you created the hash for, not the hashed string!. Also check out this book, it is a good and fast read:

#16. Merge CSV to import to Excel

I’m doing some data analysis for a first client (a friend ), he has some csv files and wants to remove duplicates. Each file is a different category for the data, so he wants a new column to know where it came from. First I tried this simple solution but needed the column and with my lack of scripting knowledge decided to go straight for a little program in .net.

I posted the complete project on Bitbucket or you can view the important part on this gist:

#11. Comtrend 536+ auto disable/enable wifi

I’ve got the comtrend 536+ from "telefonica", as I have it connected all day, I want to disable wi-fi at night, for some good reasons. The idea is to access to the router with my linux home server, use a script to disable it at certain hours and enable it at others. I opened access through ssh with the router web interface, with this manual you can get a brief idea of some commands, combining nmap and ifconfig in the router we can create a script to automatize this process.
In some days I’ll post the script if it works correctly for anyone to use it.