Miscellaneous Development Articles

Ping Failover Daemon for Linux {02-24-2010}

Overview I wanted to make available a GPL daemon I developed for Linux called the “ping failover daemon”, or pfailover. It is designed for hosts with two or more network interfaces, with the goal of rerouting traffic over the secondary interface when the primary fails. It achieves this by monitoring a host over the primary [...]

Dynamically Truncate SQL Parameters in .NET {03-09-2008}

[SQL Server] String or Binary data would be truncated. Run into this error before? The cause is usually fairly clear, we’re attempting to insert or update a field in a table with more data than it can hold. E.g. we’ve executed a SQL insert statement that attempts to assign a string 100 characters in length [...]