February 2008 - Posts

Injected objects should not be disposed be the class that receives the instance

Published 28 February 8 10:5 AM | Ramon Smits

I just read Windsor: Component Burden described as a (bad) side effect but this is not how it should work. Disposable objects should be cleanup by its creator. This is the easiest way to define the disposing responsibility! In the mentioned article they...

Filed under: Design, dependancy injection, disposing, patterns, IDisposable, responsiblity

Mssql: Cannot use bitwise operators on varbinary or numeric

Published 25 February 8 9:23 AM | Ramon Smits

I want to perform bitwise operations on a varbinary colum. As it contains binary data I though that it would work but it didn't This example works: declare @a int declare @b int set @a = 1 set @b = 2 select @a | @b But this wont: declare @a varbinary...

Filed under: MSSQL, bitwise operators, sql, tsql, varbinary, numeric

Third cable cut... this is starting to worry me

Published 1 February 8 10:24 PM | Ramon Smits

I just read on Slashdot that a third cable has been cut with this time completely blocking Iran from internet access. When the first cable was cut I thought that it was an accident but after the second cable which was about two kilometers from the first...

Filed under: Infrastructure, Conspiracy, Military, Backbone, Internet