How one can get variants’ names and their integer values from enum in C#? Consider the following example:

var variant = TestEnum.Bar;
Console.WriteLine($"{variant}: {(int)variant}");

enum TestEnum
{
    Foo,
    Bar,
    Baz
}

Running this code will produce

Bar: 1

So enum’s ToString() methods returns the name of the variant, and an enum member can be cast to integer to get its value.

This post describes how to create Python project using Rust for time-critical parts. While the steps described below work for me, they are definitely not the only way to do things.

Disclaimer: the instructions are obsolete and probably will not work now.

Prerequisites and setup

Prerequisites

Python

Obviously, you will need Python. I am not going to cover its installation here. The Python version I am going to use is 3.11.2. The command python -c "import sys; print(sys.version)" will print the version of the Python interpreter you have installed.

This post contains the information I have missed when I have started to use iocage for jails management on FreeBSD.

Disclaimer: I am relatively new to FreeBSD and while what is written below works for me it is most probably not the only (or even a right) way to do things.

Jails

Jails is a killer feature of FreeBSD. One can think about jail as about chroot on steroids, or as about a very light-weight virtual machine. A jail provides an environment isolated from the rest of the system where FreeBSD is running (usually; one can run, for example, Linux in a jail).

The purpose of this post is to remind myself how to create links in PowerShell. Nowadays (since mid-August 2016) PowerShell is cross-platform and open-source (with MIT license).

Cmdlets

Commands in PowerShell are called cmdlets. There are two of them to create links: New-HardLink for creating hard links and New-Symlink for creating symbolic links. Unfortunately, I was not able to get New-Symlink to work but see below for workaround.

Hard links

Hard links can be created with New-Hardlink and work as expected.