Miscellaneous Development Articles

My Newest Robotic Buddy, Vincent (CompuRobot) {09-18-2010}

It’s not uncommon if you love programming, computers, tinkering, and all things electronic, that you also have a love for robots. I am not unique in this regard! I’m a fan of programmable bots in general (I have a few of the Lego mindstorm robots, including the newer NXT). Recently, my friend Ryan gave me [...]

Fun Ways to Sharpen Your CS Skills {09-07-2010}

If you’re anything like me, once you learned how to code, you would take any chance you could get to write little programs for fun. I remember once I finally “got” BASIC on my Commodore 64 growing up, I would spend hours writing the cheeziest (looking back) programs. A favorite of mine was writing countless [...]

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 [...]